It was a long week. Now it's time to stay inside and stay warm as the temperatures drop below zero and keep dropping. Thank goodness for blankets and snacks and internet. Especially snacks and internet...
The Lost Vikings
Now,
admittedly, I’m not good at puzzle games. But I did enjoy this. The
three-character swapping always makes for an interesting mechanic. The music
was good, very electronic. Can’t say anything BAD about the graphics… I guess,
for me, it boiled down to not quite getting the controls. Like, how do I pick a
different item out of my inventory? No clue.
Lufia
Okay. This
seems really cool. But here’s my problem. You know how a lot of old-school RPGs
do the whole thing where you start really powerful and then get that taken
away? Lufia does that, only instead of the villains taking a few seconds to
crush you, it’s taken like 15 minutes. Like, this feels like a death march. I
know that my current set of heroes is going to lose. That’s a given. So why
doesn’t the game just get it over with? Other than that, this seems like a
pretty bog-standard RPG.
MechWarrior
So this is
pretty amazing. Psueudo-3D mech-based combat with upgrade paths, contracts, a
story, NPC, good graphics for the time, decent music, intuitive controls… Look.
I would sing this game’s praises for a long time if I could. It just
feels…right. Everything clicks, and I was having fun even as I was trying to
piece together how things worked. (Seriously, the one good thing about modern
game tutorials is that if you lose the instructions you can always count on
having a refresher course. Trying to figure out the intricacies of, say, The
Lost Vikings without an instruction book for specifics is…detrimental to the
whole process.) Anyway, I really like MechWarrior. But I’ve always loved mech
games, so maybe I’m biased.
Mega Man 7
Look. It’s
Mega Man. What do you want me to say about this that I haven’t said about the
previous six games?
Mortal
Kombat
Ehhhhhhhhh. It’s…look. It’s Mortal Kombat. We’ve established that I’m not a big
fighting game fan, but this is pretty much the classic fighting game, so… The animation
is kind of endearing, the sound is solid, the fights are okay… A lot of the
really iconic characters look stupid though.
