“Dearest Aaron and Sarah,
Remember that one time you heroically plunged into the depths of a foreign planet, pulverized a wide variety of strange creatures, accidentally slaughtered a few of my friends, and eventually saved me from the bowels of a giant robotic drilling machine that was hell bent on… drilling? Yeah, those were good [...]
This Sunday Sarah and I sat down to blast through Limbo, the exciting and stylistic new puzzle/platformer for XBOX Live! Arcade. Having tried to read through Dante’s Divine Comedy in the 9th grade, I consider myself able to judge this purgatory of a videogame just as well as the next guy (who also tried [...]
A few weeks ago, I finished Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney for the DS. In the fourth installment of the Ace Attorney series, a new main character is introduced and takes center stage in the court room- Apollo Justice. Apollo is enthusiastic and ready to prove his worth in court by putting his “chords [...]
This 4th of July weekend, Sarah and I had the opportunity to watch some fireworks… just not the typical kind — you know, outdoors on a warm summer night. Nope, the fireworks we saw preceded the ending credits of LucasArts’ amazing remake of the Secret of Monkey Isand.
My first introduction to the Monkey Island [...]
Sorry it has been a little quiet here, but we’ve been playing a ton of games as of late. Personally, I’ve been doing quite a bit of catching up with Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia (DS), and Apollo Justice (DS), revisiting games like PixelJunk Monsters (PS3), and playing recently discovered games like Babo Violent 2 [...]
Last night the world was saved by Hero (my character) and my plucky band of party members from the evil Psaro the Manslayer. Now now, no need to thank us- it’s all in a days work. Okay, well maybe not in “a days” work, it was more like 50 hours, but details details! [...]
This past week I managed to finish off the 3rd DS Castlevania game - Order of Ecclesia. All three games took a slightly (very slightly) different aproach to the “Metroid-vania” formula, but there’s just enough variety in each to make them stand out on their own.
Order of Ecclesia learns some good leasons from each of [...]
