Archive for the DS Category
Posted on December 31, 2009 by jonners99
This has been a decade when gaming technology has come on leaps and bounds. While the 1990′s were the decade of the third dimension the 2000′s have been about innovative control and high definition. That being said, a lot of the best games I have played came out towards the beginning of the decade. This list is largely comprising the games into which I have sunk and will continue to sink a large amount of my time due to their excellence in either single or multiplayer.
Posted on October 27, 2009 by jonners99
The majority of games tend to follow the same idea. Go from a to b using specific items that the developer has decided to give you. In many ways Scribblenauts turns this logic on its head. A team of staff went through the dictionary and added huge chunks of it into a database describing what it is and how it should act. They then created a puzzle game around this database whereby you receive a challenge and have to work out how to complete it by summoning any items you can think of that may be able to help. So the overused example that makes the first level goes thus:
Posted on June 25, 2008 by jonners99
I am not a normal fan of RPG games because they tend to just involve wandering around an (admittedly nice) large world levelling up by partaking in battles with enemies who happen to stumble upon your path. Random battles put simply annoy the hell out of me. Which is why I was very pleased to find the World Ends with You did not have random battles thus removing most of the annoyance. Instead what we have is a very well made RPG where your characters are trapped inside a game where if they fail their objective they get erased (ergo you fail). Sure the objective is basically destroying demons but the combat system makes it fun as well and levelling up is not of the utmost importance. Combat involves a lot of touch screen gestures and then the dpad to control the character on the top screen. It sounds confusing and is but you do get used to fighting two concurrent battles. The main character Neku is a bit of a Goth thus selling the game automatically to many people he is a reclusive character many would assosciate with at least in part, he wakes up stuck in this game and can’t remember how he got there. so he navigates through this well drawn out world looking for answers and being forced to complete the ever growing in difficulty challenges until he can be free again. He is helped in this quest by a companion who he has to grow to be friends with as it is not his nature.
I really enjoyed The World Ends with You, the graphics are amazing and work brilliantly with the handheld, the music is perfect for the game giving a very Japanese manga feel to it and the characterisation and dialogue are brilliant. The story is relatively shallow but it is pulled off very nicely and the combat system works. Best of all though is that the lack of random battles means this is a joy to play and a game I thoroughly enjoyed. I recommend this to DS users who don’t mind lots of talking and are good with multitasking.
