I’ve played a lot of games since last time but that’s what happens when I’m not blogging as much as before. Last week, I bought Flower and I sold Lord of the Ring Conquest, RE4 Wii Edition and Zack & Wiki to the local Game store where I now have a lot of credits to buy up now.
Flower isa magnificent game, a couple of hours long but really wonderful. You controll the wind, blowing around a leaf from a flower and your job is to awaken all the flowers on the level, or atleast for th first couple of levels but I won’t spoil anything here. But it is a really good game and a game of the kind that I want to make in the future. It is something new, it is relaxing and you can just sit back and enjoy the ride. It only costs 70SEK which isn’t so much for a game but it might not be a game for everybody.
Last weekend I had a dry time since I had finished most of my games on my Xbox 360 and I was really in the mood for some Star Wars so me and Lisa played some Lego Star Wars, quite fun but I wanted something deeper, more depth and a more serious game. What not to like with Biowares own ”Star Wars universe” in Mass Effect. Fired it up, created a new character who is into magic and started to play. Mass Effect is still as good as last time I played it, which is ”GotY 2007″ good. I only played for 5 hours maybe but we’ll see if I will finish it this time around, I have other games and things to to.
For some of the credits I have on Game I bought Mirror’s Edge from Dice. A game that I have had high hopes on but the first couple levels was stressful, muddled. Never knowing where to go even with runners vision on. But after some time and getting used to the game its starts to get better. Dice have created a map pack with time trail levels which was an instant buy before I bought the game but now I’m not sure. It’s 800MS points which in Swedish currency is 70-80 SEK which I don’t think it’s forth at the moment since I might sell it when I’m done with it.
This Thursday Noby Noby boy was released on PSN for 35 SEK. A really crazy game that is about eating stuff, growing your ”man/worm” and making it so long as possible. But the game have no real goal. You can report your lenght to Sun and Girl grows longer then. It’s a really strange game but fun to see something completely out of the ordinary on the PSN and only proves my point of my Specialisation Project; downloadable games can be used to create new out of the ordinary stuff.
I downloaded the Afro Samurai demo today from the US PSN and I really like the graphical style in that game. The gameplay might not be what I prefer but it seems to be a solid game atleast. Never watched Afro Samurai but it looks like an interesting concept.
In the future or I’ve already started with it actually, I plan to play games with a critical eye; taking notes on good and bad design and gameplay stuff. I hope it will help me be a better game designer because if I see that something in a game really is annoying, I know that the day I’m developing a similar game.
Tonight it will be a game/movie evening at my appartment for my friends, I still don’t know how many that will show up but hopefully a couple of people. We will play some games, watch a movie or two and talk games. Until then I’m gonna clean the appartment, play some games and probably do some schoolwork. This week I’ve been a bit lazy but I have still done what I should but maybe not so much more.
Future games I’m looking forward to is the new Kotor MMORPG, a Star Wars MMO game that takes place 40 000 years before the movies and is developed by Bioware and contiunes on their old Knights of the Old republic franchise. It looks a bit cartoony, not as much as World of Warcraft but they haven’t gone for ultra realism which I think is good. I really looking forward to it even thou I know what a time consumer MMO’s are. A game that I would have liked, or well I’ve only seen picture on it but there have been no real info about it is the now cancelled Halo MMO. It used a similar style as the Kotor MMO but was canned.
For the Nintendo Wii, Deadly Creatures was released last week, I think it looks good and good be a sleeper hit like the Blob, I was really close to buy it but didn’t in the last second. You play as a scorpion or a tarantula and solving puzzles, killing other creatures and the normal stuff. Might get it in the future since it looks quite good even thou Eurogamer gave it a 4/10. Another Wii game is Mad World, a black and white action game from Platinum Games. It looks quite good but might not be my first hand choise but it sure looks like an interesting title.
That’s it for today, gotta clean the appartment now so smell ya in a week probably.
