Archive for category: Platformer

/ 8th Jun, 2011 8:09 am

E3 2011 Preview – Fable: The Journey. It’s Not On Rails.

I was completely wrong about Fable: The Journey. The game is absolutely jaw-dropping and is everything I’ve been hoping for from Peter Molyneux and Lionhead since the day Kinect was announced. Just so you know where I’m coming from, this is what I said about the game previously, based on the two-and-a-half minute demo during Microsoft’s E3 2011 press conference. [...]

/ 8th May, 2011 6:46 pm

A Shadow’s Tale (Lost in Shadow) Review (Wii)

A Shadow’s Tale is a game that seems unsure of its own identity. It riffs on ideas and themes from some truly classic adventure games, and features some uniquely creative ideas, but sadly stops short of the classic status that it might have achieved. To help fuel its confusion, the game has been released under not one, but three different [...]

/ 21st Apr, 2011 5:30 pm

Kirby’s Epic Yarn Review (Wii)

There’s a crisis in Patch Land. Yin-Yarn the evil sorcerer has ruthlessly taken over and enslaved everyone. Worse still, whole fabric of Patch Land has been unravelled leaving it in pieces. Six pieces if you’re counting. Fortunately, a yarntastic Kirby is on hand to save the day and stitch Patch Land back together. Ok, the plot to this game is [...]

/ 9th Apr, 2011 4:37 pm

The Limbo ’3 Sentence Review’

A bit late to the party, I know, but last night I played through Limbo in its entirety. Not often you can say that about a game. In honour of this three hour adventure, I have written a three sentence review: Limbo is short but very sweet, in a sadistic kind of way. Reminded me of those Eastern European cartoons [...]

/ 7th Mar, 2011 4:46 pm

Explodemon Review (PS3)

Explodemon! With a title like that, you’d be right to assume there’s going to be lots of explosions. Mix the explosions with a platform game, a dash of fake badly translated hero quotes, some puzzles and bad guys and the end result is a rather enjoyable video game from Curve Studios. The game begins with some nice 2D cut scenes [...]

/ 2nd Dec, 2010 5:32 pm

The Undergarden Review (PC)

The Undergarden is a cutesy and absorbing single player puzzler for the PC. This one definitely fits into the casual gamer area. Imagine if you will a garden underneath the earth and you are a creature that looks somewhat like a tiny version of Shrek. Floating in a cave, you control this creature with the goal of causing the plants [...]

/ 30th Jul, 2010 7:50 am

Super Mario Galaxy 2 Review (Wii)

It’s me, Mario! Yep, it’s time to play that friendly, Princess saving, astronautic plumber again in the sequel to the fantastic Super Mario Galaxy. But this time Mario is joined by Yoshi too. See, I like Yoshi. I find him a lot more interesting and useful than Luigi. In Super Mario Galaxy 2 Yoshi has loads of really great skills and assets, like his massive tongue and insatiable appetite. Yoshi can simply eat and poo (coins) his way through levels planets. He also sulks and runs off when Mario gets knocked off him, which looks very cute! Luigi, to be honest, is a less fat, green Mario with few skills. He certainly can’t poo stars for start. Boring. Yoshi for the win.

/ 18th Feb, 2009 7:47 am

Prince of Persia Review Part 2 (360)

In part 1 of this review I talked about the plot exposition and death. Here, I’m going to talk about controls and movement. Movement and Environment I have to admit, when I first saw the visual style of this game, I thought it looked absolutely bollocks. The characters appear to be 2D cartoon models against 3D backgrounds (okay, yes, just [...]

/ 16th Feb, 2009 10:47 am

Prince of Persia Review Part 1 (360)

I love Ubisoft's new Prince of Persia game. It's not perfect, but it's as damn near close as I've ever seen.

/ 14th Apr, 2008 9:58 pm

Super Mario Galaxy Review (Wii)

The Super Mario gang is back. Peach has been kidnapped by Bowser and Mario must save the day once again.

/ 5th Mar, 2007 7:30 am

Daxter Review (PSP)

Age Rating: 7+ (PEGI) What is it? A platformer starring Daxter a wise cracking orange ottsel. Is it fun? Yep. Is it worth the money? Yes, and since its been out for a while you can pick it up cheapy-cheap second hand (e.g. £14 from Computer Exchange) Why? In a nut shell, it’s fun, looks totally stunning, is well scripted [...]

/ 29th Dec, 2006 10:41 am

Ultimate Ghosts ‘N Goblins Review (PSP)

Age rating: 7+ (PEGI) What is it? Update of the “classic” side-scrolling, platformer starring Arthur the Knight. Is it fun? No. Annoying and frustrating, yes. Is it worth the money? £24.99 No. Why? To be honest I never really liked the original Ghosts n’ Goblins game when it was released in the arcades during the mid-80s. It was an incredibly [...]

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