Hey there, hi there, ho there, folks! G.P. the GamerPuppet here! Game reviewer Cary recently splurged and got the collector’s edition of Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance for 3DS. For 20 bucks extra, you get all sorts of cool stuff. So let’s take a look at what all you get!
The classic single player card game has entered the third dimension. Now you can play (yet another) version of Solitaire, now available on the Nintendo 3DS eShop.
I’m not really much of a computer gamer, but the online PC game company Nexon has a lineup of titles that I’d be really into if I was. They’ve got 2-D cuteness in Maple Story, old school side scrolling beat ‘em up sensibilities with Dungeon Fighter, Tales-like vibes with Mabinogi, and console style hack and slash with Vindictus. So as a mostly console-only gamer, I was overjoyed when I learned that Dungeon Fighter LIVE was headed to Xbox 360 as a download title!
Help a tribe of warrior bunnies defend their stash of carrots from the thieving foxes (but what would foxes want with carrots?) in Carrot Watch, a cartoony tower defense style game for iPhone and iPad. When the game starts, foxes will march from the bottom of the screen to the top, where your pile of carrots is kept. Select from a variety of different bunnies and strategically place them about the level with your finger to whittle down the foxes’ energy and keep them from nabbing your stash. When a fox reaches the top, it’ll take away one of your carrots. Lose all your designated carrots in a level and you’ll have to start that stage over again.
Well, the last few weeks of summer are winding down, so I thought now would be a good time to take a look at all the summer movies I watched and give my brief impressions on them. Even though I saw a lot of movies, keep in mind that I went to the first early bird showing of each one over a weekend, so I really didn’t pay that much for tickets. I paid even less since I don’t go see movies in 3-D because I’ve been blind in my left eye since birth and can’t see the 3-D effects anyway. And I guess I should do one of those ‘spoiler warning’ things. I’m going to try and NOT spoil too much of these movies for you, but just in case something slips out, you’ve been forewarned. OK with all that out of the way, let’s get started!
Back in the 70’s, before arcades became big, there were many foosball parlors around where you could go play a round or two of tabletop soccer. I was a little too young to experience that, but I did see the remnants of it years later at arcades, where over in the corner you might see a foosball table next to the air hockey games and Shoot Away screens. Now you can enjoy foosball in your own home, without having a big table take up your living room, with Foosball 2012. It’s downloadable for PS3 and Vita, and you can even transfer your saves from one system to another. Foosball 2012 is also PlayStation Move compatible, but we’ll be reviewing it with using just the controller only.
Character Chowdown is an educational game downloadable on the app store for iPad and iPhone. It helps teach kids (and the young at heart), the basics of the Japanese written language. There are several different kinds of lettering in Japanese, like Katakana, Kanji, etc. Each pack you download in Character Chowdown represents one of those styles of writing. The initial batch just has Katakana, and you download the others separately.
Planet Crashers is an out of this world dungeon crawler that’s downloadable on the Nintendo 3DS eShop. Customize your own character’s gender, hair, skin, and clothes, then venture forth to planets that need your help. On the planets’ surface are booths where you can take on missions, and shops to buy items. Once you take on a job, go to the corresponding dungeon on that planet to retrieve items, find lost people, defeat certain monsters, etc.
We all have special memories of games from our childhood. Mine would be arcade classics from the 80’s like Pac-Man, of course. I also share special memories of more contemporary games with my younger brothers, like playing Yoshi’s Island with them. But some special gaming memories are uniquely theirs. Case in point, one of my brother Jeff’s favorite games he played as a kid was Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater. I was worried that he was too young for it at the time, but he took to it like a fish to water. So when I learned that Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD came out for Xbox LIVE recently, I decided that Jeff was more fitting to write the review of it.
Gamers my age may remember the days when we were kids, whiling away the summer hours playing rented NES games when it was too hot to go outside. It was fun to rent and discover unknown NES gems back then, like Kickle Cubicle or Pinball Quest (the latter mixed pinball with RPG elements and yes that game did exist). All those memories came flooding back to me recently when I tried Wizorb, a new PS Minis downloadable title for play on PSP and PS3. It’s a brand new game, but styled to look like a retro 8-bit title. And this one is a cross between an RPG and…BreakOut?!?
