Playing through games that might just get stuck in your backlog.
With the Steam Summer Sale coming to an end, I finally decided to actually spend a bit more on this sale. One of the titles I picked up was Pretentious Game, which at first glance (and from the trailer) reminded me quite a lot of Thomas Was Alone. What followed was a somewhat emotional experience.
Battle Princess of Arcadias is a recent PSN-exclusive title that features Plume, a battle princess. The title is a side-scrolling beat-em-up action-RPG with tactical elements. Yeah, bit of a mouthful there, huh?
On the surface, They Breathe is an almost innocent looking indie title featuring a frog. However, as you go deeper you quickly discover it is much more than that.
Symphony is a title that appears to have gone under the radar for quite a long time, especially for fans of Rhythm games. As a fan of titles such as Beat Hazard and Audiosurf, when I first found out about this title I definitely wanted to play it.
At first I wasn’t even going to give this game a try. I had started it up once and then lost interest and just uninstalled it. However, thanks to a good friend of mine I decided to give it another try.
Ah, PlayStation Plus. You are both good and evil… You let me have the opportunity to play games I would never otherwise buy… like Limbo! Well okay, so maybe I already had it through a Humble Bundle at one point, but that isn’t the point!
Samorost 2 is the sequel to a browser flash player game. The idea of the game is simple – you are this weird looking guy and your dog gets kidnapped by these other weirder looking guys, well, “aliens.” You follow them in your spaceship and click your way through puzzles to rescue your dog.
So on the list of random purchases lately, this definitely tops it. I had 150 coins about to expire on Club Nintendo and since they recently just refreshed their list, I decided to pick this up.
I recently got my hands on a Sega Genesis again after having lost my old one in a move a few years ago, and the first thing I did was go through all my things in storage to find my Genesis games. Among them, a game I completely forgot I had, was Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom.
Going into this game I had high hopes – perhaps too high. Everyone I’ve heard from has said how amazing this title is and so on. Having had issues getting into Persona games in the past, I probably should have gone in a bit more reserved than I did.