- 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand (360)
- Metroid: Other M (Wii)
- Need For Speed: Nitro (Wii)
- Chronicles Of Pern: Dragon Riders (DC)
- Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub-Zero (PS)
- Pandemonium! (PS)
- Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes (TGCD)
- Dark Seed (PC)
- Starship Titanic (PC)
I've only had time to sit down with Legend Of Heroes, Mortal Kombat Mythologies, Need For Speed, and Pandemonium! so far, and while I'm pretty happy with all of them, there're different reasons behind each...
Dragon Slayer: Legend Of Heroes seems to be a pretty straightforward Japanese RPG from Falcom, and their Ys series has me on a bit of a Falcom kick. Considering that Trails In the Sky (the sixth Legend Of Heroes game) was just released in North America for PSP, I thought I'd look into its roots with the only other English release in the series; it was a nice surprise to discover that Faxanadu (NES) and Sorcerian (PC) are also part of the Dragon Slayer series... Yeah, there're over 25 games if you count all of the sub-series :) Ooh, and I noticed an allusion to the 1984 Bruce Cockburn song "Lovers In A Dangerous Time" in Legend Of Heroes! So the pop-culture references of the recent Falcom translations (e.g lyrics from Hall and Oates' "Maneater" in one of the PSP Ys games) is apparently a bit of a tradition...
Anyway, Mortal Kombat Mythologies is friggin' hard. Interesting game with some really fun sequences, but jumping puzzles and limited lives 'n continues were a very bad idea.
Need For Speed: Nitro is fun, and so far totally worth the $8 I spent on it.
Pandemonium! is just as awesome as I remembered; fantastic platformer.
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