IÂ bought Braid in the Humble Indie Bundle 3 which seems like a long time ago now, but I never got around to playing it because I thought it was just a standard platformer. Braid is anything but standard. It is a platformer, and it’s making a bit of fun of Mario Bros. as you go to each castle a dinosaur comes out and says “The Princess is in another castle” but the gimmick is the time manipulation ability. Because you can rewind time whenever you want you don’t have lives,…read more
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBXpNpwDFzw[/youtube]I’ve been playing the steam game Eufloria for a few months now, off and on. Â If you play it for an hour you may find it interesting, and then put it down, but when you try it again it becomes satisfyingly addictive. It’s a really clever concept, and while it’s not too unlike an RTS I still want to play it (I cannot say the same for most RTS games). You control a group of seeds which orbit an asteroid, you can choose to play some of your seeds to…read more
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4HSyVXKYz8[/youtube]I played Limbo for about 3 hours one night when I decided to try it out.  Eventually I got too tired to keep my eyes open and quit, and I didn’t play it for several weeks afterwards.  I finally ran it again today and it turns out I stopped about 10 minutes and 2 puzzles from the end, hehe. At first I thought Limbo was just a style piece with no real gameplay, something you show to people to justify games as an art form or something.  The whole game is…read more
I picked up Fortix 2 in the Indie Gala bundle about a week ago and hadn’t gotten a chance to play any of the games in the bundle until today. This game alone was worth the $10 I paid and I still have 10 other games to look at. Essentially the game is the old arcade game Qix but with a theme of a knight laying siege to fortresses of an evil tyrant. You start off on the outside line (the base line) and most things cannot hurt you while…read more
The Hitman series dates back to 2000 and yet I hadn’t played any of them, so when the first three games went on sale on Steam, I thought I’d give them a try. A friend of mine mentioned that they were his favourite back when the movie came out so I figured it was worthy. I have to temper my review with the fact that this game is 11 years old now and I can’t hold it to the same standards I have for games of the current generation. In…read more
