LEGO Dimensions The A-Team Fun Pack
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Posted on November 2nd, 2016 by
When I was a little kid, The A-Team was a very popular TV show. But I wasn’t really into it as I was more interested in shows like The Dukes of Hazzard and Knight Rider. One show had a cool orange car that jumped over ramps, and the other had a TALKING car! The A-Team just had a van with a red stripe. (yeah you know where my priorities were as a little boy) Plus, I feel ashamed to admit it, but as a little kid, I was kind of scared of Mr. T, who was the star of the show. But there’s no denying that The A-Team was super popular. Heck, even Mr. Bean slept on A-Team sheets in one of his comedy skits, and a few years ago they made a movie remake of The A-Team (I rented it once and feel asleep about an hour in, unfortunately). Mr. T was also popular in his own right, even getting his own Saturday morning cartoon and breakfast cereal back then (yes, really). And now you can relive the action of the TV show in LEGO form with The A-Team Fun Pack for LEGO Dimensions. The game is available for nearly all current home game consoles, but reviewed on Wii U here.
Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters Daybreak: Special Gigs (PS3, PS4, Vita)
Posted on October 31st, 2016 by
We all have guilty pleasures, whether we like to admit them or not. One of my guilty pleasures is watching ghost shows on TV. You know, the ones where people go to haunted places and try to investigate ghosts, or recount their own spooky happenstances. You can usually watch them on cable channels like Discovery or the History Channel (more like Used to be About History Channel). Anyway, I know most of the stuff on those ghost shows are probably exaggerated and not real, but they’re still entertaining to watch anyway and who doesn’t like a good ghost story every now and then, especially at this time of year. I also find video games about ghosts rather interesting, heck, the first game I ever played, Pac-Man, had ghosts in it! So that’s why I decided to review Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters Daybreak: Special Gigs. It’s a game about ghost hunting and is a weird mix of a virtual novel and strategy RPG. It’s available for all of Sony’s current systems, but reviewed on PS3 here.
LEGO Dimensions Ghostbusters Story Pack
Posted on October 26th, 2016 by
This past summer, we were treated with a brand new Ghostbusters movie featuring a different story and an all-female team. While I don’t think it was nowhere near as good as the first movie, I still laughed a lot and it was considered a comedy, so I guess it did its job. Plus, the new movie helped bring back my favorite childhood drink: Ecto-Cooler, so it’s all good. And now you can play the movie in LEGO form with the LEGO Dimensions Ghostbusters Story Pack. Not to be confused with the LEGO Dimensions Ghostbusters Level Pack, which I reviewed earlier this year. LEGO Dimensions and all the sets that go with it are playable on nearly all the current home game consoles, but reviewed on Wii U here.
Marvel’s Women of Power (PS3, PS4, Vita, Xbox One, 360, PC, iOS)
Posted on October 24th, 2016 by
Girl Power is taking over pinball! A bevvy of Marvel’s superheroines have teamed up to bring you two new action packed pinball tables for play on Zen Studios’ pinball platforms: Pinball FX2 and Zen Pinball 2. They’re available on nearly all current game consoles and computers, but reviewed on PS3 here.
Storm King’s Thunder (D&D RPG)
Posted on October 20th, 2016 by
This year, Dungeons and Dragons is all about the giants. The various types of giants (fire, hill, cloud, etc…) have gone to war with each other to determine the best kind of giant. Since the release of of 5th edition, Wizards of the Coast has picked an overarching storyline and theme for the year’s releases. This year focuses on a disruption of the natural order of giant seniority, and the infighting between the giant types to get higher in the pecking order. Player characters get caught up in the political intrigue and can even steer the outcome in one way or another before the tale’s final denouement.
Jotun: Valhalla Edition (Wii U, PS4, Xbox One, PC)
Posted on October 19th, 2016 by
Thora is a big, burly, tough as nails female Viking warrior. Unfortunately for her, her boat sank and instead of going to Valhalla, she ends up in Norse purgatory and must fight her way through collecting runes and battling huge bosses to impress the gods. Jotun: Valhalla Edition is a downloadable top-down viewed action game featuring hand-drawn graphics and animation. It’s available for nearly all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on Wii U here.
Noitu Love Devolution (Wii U, 3DS, PC)
Posted on October 17th, 2016 by
One of the things I like about reviewing games is learning about certain series that I would’ve never had heard of before. This is a good example. Noitu Love was a computer game released in the mid-2000’s, and Devolution is the sequel. It was actually released a good while back on PC, too, but now you can play it with touch screen controls on the Wii U and 3DS (Wii U version reviewed here). It’s a 2-D action game that has a lot in common with 16 and 32-bit Treasure titles.
Poncho (Wii U)
Posted on October 12th, 2016 by
Buildings are burning and the world has ended. Kind of a dark way to start out a game where you play as a happy little toaster-like robot wearing a poncho. In the game you play as Poncho, who must explore a 2-D 16-bit styled world filled with other robots wandering around not knowing what to do. Your task is to find an item left by your creator which will supposedly save humanity somehow. The game is available to download on the Nintendo Wii U eShop.
Pac-Man Pop! (iOS, Android)
Posted on October 10th, 2016 by
So what happens when you combine my all-time favorite video game (Pac-Man), with one of my favorite puzzle game series (Bust-A-Move/Puzzle Bobble). You get Pac-Man Pop! It’s a new free-to-play puzzler downloadable on iOS and Android devices (reviewed on iPad here). So you know I had to check it out!
Axiom Verge (Wii U, PS4, Vita, Xbox One, PC)
Posted on October 7th, 2016 by
So Federation Force may not have been the Metroid game that fans wanted, but luckily you can get your 2-D Metroid-style game fix in with Axiom Verge. In the game you play as Trace, a scientist who gets caught in an explosion in a lab in New Mexico. But instead of dying or winding up in a hospital, you are transported to an alien world, and it’s up to you to survive, explore, and find out how you got there in the first place. Axiom Verge is a 2-D platforming 16-bit style game very similar to Super Metroid on the SNES. It’s available for download on nearly all current consoles, but reviewed on Wii U here.
