Catching Up!

As the title of the blog says, I have a lot of catching up to do in terms of blogging. This is due to how I need to seperate my main blog into different parts, otherwise it would literally be oversized and a pain to read, although after seeing my last blog, I wonder if it isn't a status I have already achieved and will achieve once again with this one lol. I still need to make a blog regarding the games that I bought during the holidays (the ones I received for Christmas were spoken of in the last blog) and I also need to write The Blog of Love for Megaman, title provided by Tanya and which I will gladly use.

As I am still unsure of the specific reasons surrounding this romance lived between me and the Blue Bomber (you know it's romance when listening to Barry White while playing Megaman), I'll talk about the ridiculous number of games I got myself during my absence. Be prepared as this ought to be a lengthy blog, once again. So, shall we begin? We will, but first, I will not speak in details of every games (or rather.. I'll try) since for some of them, I actually have no idea what they really are lol. I'll try to list them in alphabetical order (PC definitely means I got it through Steam during the Holiday Sales). If you find this to be too long, you can also just read the titles and let me know what you think about the games :]

Bayonetta (X360):
This was a title I was unsure about in the beginning when it first got announced, but knowing that the creator of Devil May Cry (the first one) was behind Bayonetta, it had to be good. It's only later when I was able to access an early demo of the game on X360 that it became clear to me that this was a first day purchase, and close enough, I went and bought it on Friday, the 8th of January. The best comparison I can make is Devil May Cry 3: Bayonetta shares the same style of over the top cutscenes and, most importantly, shares the same type of comedy that was found in DMC3,m back when Dante was a party boy who thought everything was fun. The only differences are found in the personality of the protagonist, the environments and some of the weapons used. To cut it short, if you are a fan of Devil May Cry, chances are you will enjoy Bayonetta despite the easier difficulty.

Indigo Prophecy (PC):
I honestly have no idea of what this game is, what you do, what happens or even where it comes from. The only reason I bought this is because it has always been highly recommended by a work colleague and because it was $3. Seems that it has to do with agents, murders and thriller stuff, but with what my friend told me and the price, I surely can't go wrong with this purchase. I'm looking forward to playing it, but first, I need to finish Penumbra.

Luxor 3 (PC):
Who can go wrong with a game that was $0,99? This game was bought mainly for my mother who, after trying the demo, wanted to keep the demo. "Mom.. it's only 99 cents.." So I logged in and bought it. For those who might wonder, Luxor is the classy version of Zuma, where you control a paddle at the bottom of the screen and need to throw a colored ball into other balls being pushed by scarabs, making a connection of 3 or more balls of the same color to eliminate them from the board. All of this must be done before the scarabs reach the small temple located somewhere on the board. Quite an enjoyable game, especially for $1.

PixelJunk Shooter (PS3):
It had to be 50/50. I never liked PJ Racers, nor did I like Monsters. However, I love Eden and Shooter was on my list as the second out of 4 games I wanted from PixelJunk. Back then, I actually even participated in the contest for finding a name for the game, but I lost and someone with the brilliant (yet boring) idea of "Shooter" actually won. I had searched every online dictionaries and thesaurus to find a word describing the perfect flow between each elements found in nature, which I entirely forgot the name of, but I lost anyway lol. You find yourself on a planet from which you must now rescue survivors from the depths of terror, eliminating, or shooting, enemies on your path. The main feature of the game is the manipulation of elements such as water, fire and earth. Pouring water on fire (or vice versa) creates earth, while spitting fire on ice creates evaporation. You end up with fire, water, gas, some sort of magnetic debris and earth, all of which you must use to your advantage to proceed further into the levels. Quite an amazing game, which I already got 100% in it.

Risk II (PC):
Not sure why I bought this.. Perhaps because it was $2? I always had something for Risk, but honestly, I'm a bad player and playing it on PC is quite boring. It was worth the try though, since it is, originally, a great global domination board game. By the way, it remained installed on my PC for 1 day, the following day I uninstalled it and don't think I'll ever reinstall it either.

Roller Coaster Tycoon 3: Platinum Edition (PC):
Is it just me or is this game really complicated? Ever since my youngest days, Roller Coaster Tycoon always caught my curiosity. I figured the Holiday Sales were the perfect time to finally own a copy of the game. RCT3 Platinum comes with both the water and safari expansion packs, which allow for more environments and more kinds of coasters to be built. I have yet to build my own coaster though, as I merely spent some time in the tutorials. Well at least now I own it and maybe one day I'll be able to create my own coaster, record it and show it to you people, but lately, my gaming time is better spent elsewhere than in tutorials.

Twin Sector (PC):
Seen as a Portal clone by many, yet different on so many levels, Twin Sector is a puzzle game which uses physics through two different gloves instead of two guns. One of the gloves pushes and the other pulls. You use these gloves to take or throw objects and to jump higher or halt a long fall which would usually be instant death upon landing. You wake up as Ashley Simms in some kind of building, which is currently in some type of crisis. You are guided by a robotic voice as you must restart the generators and save the day for every humans being kept cryogenetically somewhere in the building. Despite not being as good or deep (so far) as Portal, it is still a good independent game in the same genre, especially when waiting for a Portal 2 (which will probably never happen).

The Void (PC):
This is, without a doubt, the strangest game I've played in a while. You wander around in some kind of gardens and are welcomed by what they call a "Sister". The void is losing color, and you must revive the Sisters by giving them colors which is done by drawing a Donor Glyph on their bodies. The game is extremly challenging as you must collect the small ammount of colors found throughout the realms to fill your hearts and awaken the sisters, yet everytime you are in the Void, it drains your colors quite quickly. The Void is basically the pathway between the different realms, or gardens if you want. As you collect colors, they go into a palette which is used to fill your hearts, which are also used to give you abilities. Upon entering the Void, these hearts are drained from their colors and then transferred to a second palette which is used to draw color on objects, even used to fight against enemies. After this, you then need to refill your heart since if all of your hearts reaches an ammoun tof zero colors while in the Void, you die. This game is entirely about survival and how well you can juggle with the colors that you need to use, preserve and live with in order to survive and ensure the survival of others. The Sisters are also guarded by Brothers, and if you open too many of a Sister's hearts, or if you waste too much colors, the Brothers will dislike you. Each color represent a different emotion which also alters the enemies in the realms depending on how much of a color you currently have within you. It is an extremely strange game and an extremely hard one to explain, yet it is worth trying.

World of Goo (PC):
I got World of Goo for $5, which is a great purchase despite its high difficulty. The game basically consist of sticking balls of goo together in order to reach a pipe, which then sucks in the remaining goo balls. For each level, you need to have X number of goo balls, and to "ace" a level, a greater number is needed which is, quite honestly, extremely hard to achieve, even in the first world. Quite a simple game, yet offering a great challenge.

Zombie Shooter 2 (PC):
Last one! I also got my hands on Zombie Shooter 2. The only reason I got this one is because not long before the Holidays, I had bought the "Complete Shooter Pack", which consisted of Alien Shooter, Alien Shooter Revisited, Alien Shooter 2 and Zombie Shooter. So, while being at it, why not get Zombie Shooter 2 while it is on sale? As well complete the collection :]

That's it for my games purchased! Yes, that's many games. I'm not even sure I'll play all of them, which reminds me that Steam Holiday Sales are evil, really evil. Congratulations to everyone who actually red all of it lol. To hell with re-reading this massive blog lol. Once again, Xiao will ruin me x_x