Let's play: Learn to fly 2

The idea behind the game is simple: you're a penguin and you want to fly. And you almost did it in the first game but, sadly, you ended up in the hospital. Don't worry, your insurance covered it.
Now you're (almost) all better and you want to try again.

The fish looks tasty. Sorta.

The game is about flying. You gotta fly as far as you can as fast as you can and get rid of the obstacles that you'll encounter, like a snowman (or a mountain).
You'll get money every time you land after a flying session (don't ask me where it comes from) and you get access to a store where you can buy all sorts of upgrades to achieve your goal.

Money money money.

There are challenges that pay an extra bit when you complete them.
Eventually the flying and crashing pay more, don't worry.

It's fun for a quick video game fix. Nothing super great but still fun. Give it a go and see how many days it takes you to finally fly!

Let's play: Cardinal Quest 2

Cardinal Quest 2 is a sort of roguelike light with pixel art, which gives the illusion of being a retro game. This has been overused recently by indie game developers and shows no sign of stopping even if we want it to.

Someone please remove this sword from my skull, it hurts like hell.

The initial art looks good, let's start a new game.

I love how it says "attempt". It could have said "begin", "start" or whatever but intead they're saying "hey, things are though out there and you're probably not gonna make it the first time". Well, let's see what you have for me, lowlands!

But first, we create our character. There are several classes to be unlocked but only the fighter is available at the start. The color selection (which is only for those weird bars) is limited but we'll overlook that. You can also choose the gender of your character. Onwards!

The floor arrows are actually made from bone dust from previous adventurers.

The controls are pretty simple and easy to get used to. You move with WASD and you attack by left clicking your enemies. You can skip a turn by clicking on yourself, use this to get the advantage and/or better position.

There's not much to say other than: good luck and play smart. Always back off if you're getting overwhelmed and click those bad guys to death before they do the same to you. Here's a few more screenshots:

Let's play: Desktop Tower Defense 1.5

I absolutely love tower defense games. I can spend hours trying out different playstyles, building mazes with my towers, checking out upgrade paths and obliterating the endless waves of enemies seeking to destroy me.
Tower defense games are perfect for any sector of the public: small children, college students, the average joe and senior citizens alike can enjoy this type of game.

Let's take a look to an old favorite of mine: Desktop Tower Defense 1.5

Pick your poison.

This 2008 game has simplistic graphics and goes straight to business. You're immedialy asked to pick a difficulty. The lack of an intro or a logo takes points from the game but let's overlook that for a moment.
After selecting a difficulty the game explains the layout of the battlefield:

Tower defense games are easy to understand to you probably won't find a tutorial in any. Once we read what our towers do, it's time to create our defense. It's really important to spend all your money or at least build a solid amount or towers or the mobs will go straight past you.

Putting down a single tower is just a bad car crash waiting to happen.

Once you have a decent starting defense force, click on send wave and let the carnage begin!

This is after a few waves but you get the idea.

Make sure to check out Desktop Tower Defense 1.5 in Armor Games!

Let's play: Gunslugs (play store)

Hey there! I'm back with another awesome game. Gunslugs is an action packed side scroller with a neat pixel style. It reminds me of the Metal Slug series.

Ready to rumble.

The game is pretty straight forward. You run into the enemy lines and shoot your gun until they're dead. But they keep coming (and dying) and the ride never ends. It's relly fun because who doesn't like to shoot some FREEDOM into these guerrilla-army-thing-guys or whatever they are.

 Good thing they carry a lot of ammo so you'll never run out.

Another awesome thing about this game is that the levels are randomly generated so you'll never play the same thing twice! Great for playing everywhere at any time. Not to mention the catchy music.

Get to da chopa!

You can find Gunslugs in the Google Play Store so check it out!

Let's play: Flash games (Boxhead 2play rooms)

If we're talking flash games, there are some really great titles out there. Some are not that known so I will be playing (and reviewing) some of them. To start off this section I present to you the Boxhead series:

I'm sure that's just ketchup.

Here's the deal: you're a guy with a gun and a bunch of zombies want to see you drop dead. The concept isn't anything new but the gameplay sure makes up for that. In a way, it's really relaxing to shoot pixels to pixelated zombies. In the title I'm covering (Boxhead 2play rooms) you have the option to play coop so go grab a friend (wake them up if they're asleep) and jump in!

Ready to go sir!

After picking the first room that the game offers, you appear in a room with some ammo laying around and explosive barrerls. You start off with a simple pistol, but after killing only a couple of detestable undead you unlock your very first upgraded weapon: the uzi.

Those guys sure have galons and galons of blood.

You can pause with 'P' and you'll see all the things you can unlock there.

As you can see, there are tons of weapons to get and fun to be had. Make sure to give it a try! Flash games are great for short gaming sesions. McClane out.

But where are the video games

I had some issues IRL that I had to sort out BUT now that things are going well I'm bringing this blog back to life!

There are so many video games out there that NEED to be known. Stay tuned for some awesome quick reviews.

Let's play: The Binding of Isaac

You're all alone in the basement, naked, crying and surrounded by ungodly creatures and maybe a couple of flies. It shouldn't be fun but it is.

Someone help this poor child.

The Binding of Isaac is a an action-packed dungeon crawler roguelike, courtesy of the great Edmund McMillen.

You should know Edmund already.

Wikipedia says:
"The Binding of Isaac is a top-down 2D action-adventure game in which the player controls Isaac or one of six other unlockable characters as he explores the dungeons located in Isaac's room's basement. The game's mechanics and presentation is similar to the dungeons of The Legend of Zelda, while incorporating random, procedurally-generated levels in a manner similar to many Roguelike games."

It has tons of items and possible combinations, you may be a winged Isaac shooting bloody tears to your enemies or you can be a demon shooting blood lasers (really, they're blood lasers HOW COOL IS THAT).
Not everything is grim for you, some of the items can heal you back up or even spawn a couple of hearts, kind of like a health insurance.

But rejoice! You're not alone in your quest for survival. Well... you kind of are so let's say they'll avenge you when you die:

Oh come on, it's just Isaac with a hat.

Mom is some kind of sicko so she wants to kill you to prove her faith to God. That's why you go all over your basement escaping and, eventually, fighting against her (you also seem to have a gargantuan basement).
Thankfully your basement has all kinds of trinkets, tarot cards, items and monsters to set you up before you have to face Mom.

If you're new to the game or if you're not 100% familiar with the items yet I recommend having a BoI wiki open at all times so you don't ruin your own run since, of course, there are negative items that will set you down or even mess up the entire run.

Someone please explain me how did I end up in my mothers womb.

Isaac has been in more than one Humble Indie Bundle and can also be acquired via Steam of whatever you use for video games. If you haven't played it, please, give it a shot. It's worth.

If you're not convinced yet or if you want to see the game in action I advise you to check out Northernlion in Youtube. He has a incredibly large Binding of Isaac Let's Play series. And I meant it, he's close to 600 episodes.

There, there, Isaac, I'm sure Northernlion will stop torturing you eventually.

Alive and kicking

It's been a bit longer than a year but HEY CALM DOWN, I'M BACK.

I have some delicious video game reviews in the grill.

Including but not limited to: Binding of Isaac, Dungeons of Dredmor, League of Legends, some random shitty tower defense, etc.

Get hype.

News on some upcoming posts.

I have something special for you in the oven, but I don't know exactly when it'll be ready. I'm making a TOP 5 (or TOP 10 if I'm not too lazy) favorite NES games.

I hope to have the quick reviews ready to be posted this month. Just wanted to let you guys know.
Have a nice day!

Let's play: NES' Megaman

Please, take a good look. Here you have the very FIRST, the one that started all. With all the fame this franchise has you bet this game has a great cove-

Come ON!

Is that some kind of futuristic cop? Some avant-garde cosplay? Nope, it's the real deal.

"Kill me now, end my suffering".

Give it a rest, McClane -you may say-, at least the cover was in HR

Writing HR on the cover =! High Res

Anyway.

In case you never played the original Megaman, you're in for a surprise. In this one you have a scoring system, you collect points from killing minions, picking up what they drop and defeating the stage boss. It seems it didn't work out as well as they wanted since we don't see the same system in the other games. Ok, enough of the cover, let's get into the stages! (after the click, of course)

Street Fighter x Tekken

Here we have yet another FRANCHISE vs FRANCHISE game. Yeah, but not quite. This one has a twist that you may or may not like.
What is it, you say? Well, I don't know if you remember the original cover of the first Megaman game:

Is that... Megaman?

When you heard that Street Fighter x Tekken would have Megaman I'm sure you had something else in mind because, believe it or not, they're using (for the first time) the looks of the cover on Megaman. Atrocious?, kind of funny? You'll be the judge:

You can't be serious.

Vidya Gaem Awards. What is that?

Yesterday some of us watched the /v/GA (or Vidya Gaem Awards), but for those who didn't and those who don't even know what is that, I present you a small FAQ:

It's a cool looking logo, huh?

What are the /v/GA?
The Vidya Gaem Awards are videogame awards (duh) presented by /v/ - The Vidya. I'll just copypaste a fragment of their About us page:  They were born in early December 2011 as a response to the Spike VGAs, which were worse than anybody could have predicted and an insult to the entire gaming industry. The /v/GAs are run for /v/, by /v/. It couldn't be done without the help of countless anon in figuring out categories, nominations and finally voting for the winners.


Where can I see them?
Check out the official website. They uploaded the show (wich lasted one hour and forty-five minutes) to Youtube but it was deleted really quick. It wasn't a surprise, one of the skits was a bit disturbing and NSFW. Update: they uploaded a censored version.

Is this a real thing?
Yes.


Enough of the FAQ, let's move on to a synopsis (don't worry, I won't spoil anything). Click on read more (or whatever it says here) for the full article:

Game Reviews: Resurrection

Did you think this blog was dead?

Can't blame you, I believed so myself for a while. But there was a notorious videogame related event that made me change my mind.

Anyway, I'll try to post at least once in a while. Peace out.

Music time: Helloween.

College keeps me a bit busy (as usual) so I'll share with you another band instead of a quick review (don't worry, they'll come).

Helloween. They're a German power metal band founded in the mid 1980s by members of Iron Fist and Powerfool. The band is known as one of the pioneering power metal bands (that's how cool they are).

Make sure to listen to them, if you like power metal or metal in general, you probably will like them. Here's a couple of videos after the click!

Let's Play: Rampage

I can't count how many afternoons I wasted with this one.

That punch in the stomach was uncalled for.

In Rampage you can play as  George the Great Ape, or Lizzie the Large Lizard. You go from one town to another smashing every building on sight. Well, they're not just going to hand over their town, they'll fight! You'll encounter cops, tanks, and even regular citizens will try to bring you down with a truck or some TNT.

There's also a two-player mode. You can work together or you can punch each other (it's more entertaining than it sounds, trust me).

I said it's MY building.

Inside the buildings you can find food, people (yeah, they're food as well) and bad things such as explosives and poison. Hey, you can eat a toilet.

That's nasty, I wouldn't recommend it. Seriously, don't.

So, plug that old NES and have some fun!

Music time: Therion

I don't have my next review just yet, so I thought I'd share some of my music with you.

Therion, they're a Swedish symphonic metal band founded in 1987. Therion's music takes its themes from different mythologies and is based on concepts ranging from occultism, magic and ancient traditions and writings.
I heard of them before going to college, but here is where I listen to them the most. I tend to listen when I need to study for my exams or basicaly anywhere in the university campus.

Here's a video of them and a couple more after the click!

Gameplay Trailer: Terraria

So, I came across this video the other day. It has a little of Minecraft in it, but it is a 2D side-scroller. It also reminded me of the Castlevania series.

What do you guys think?

Flash Games: Asteroids

It's always nice to destroy some space rocks.

Time to procrastinate!

Phew, phew, phew, phew.

Asteroids made by Neave Games

Total F*cking Psychopath

Total F*cking Psychopath is an indie game you shouldn't miss.

Here's the description (taken from the official website):

It's a freeware action game of retro arcade style, in which you take on the role of a psychotic killer, just as he's about to embark on a violent murder spree. Your goal as the killer is to slay as many victims as possible during your time alive.




So, this is you:

Oh God, you're ugly.

Your weapons: a knife and some pipebombs. You need to kill as many people as possible. You start with civilians only. If you stab them they'll run around for  bit and then they'll keep walking as nothing happened (what the hell man, really). Eventually, cops will show up.

You can heal yourself and pick up pipe bombs, so you can really go on forever. Here's a video of the gameplay:

Enjoy!

Let's Play: League of Legends

Ok, I've been delaying my quick reviews long enough. It's time for some PC goodness. I present to you, League of Legends.

So far, so good. The logo looks nice.

Some stuff from Wikipedia:


League of Legends is a video game inspired by the Defense of the Ancients (DotA) map forWarcraft III: The Frozen Throne^[2] developed and published by Riot Games for Microsoft Windows.^[3] It was first announced on October 7, 2008, and released on October 27, 2009.^[4]The game was in a closed beta from April 10, 2009, to October 22, 2009.^[5] It then transitioned to open beta until release.




Ok, basically you are a summoner and you control a champion. Every champion has unique abilities. You have to fight against other champions in a 3v3 or a 5v5, it depends on the map you choose (LoL currently has two): Twisted Treeline or Summoner's Rift.

I'll try to explain more about the game in the following posts. In the mid time, you can try it out for yourself (it's free). The game has tutorials and stuff to help you get started:

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Peace!