ello!

its xmas eve morning and im yet again bored enough to write another blog to an audience that barely knows i exist.

so letsee...my latest gaming addictions..

Ninjatown

Ninjatown for the DS had me hooked for days, its a superb strategy that has cutesy anime style graphics. but its VERY addictive, you place "ninja huts" in places on the level to stop the advancing demon armies. there are many enemies and so there is a small selection of ninjas to combat each type. for flying demons you'll want to use your sniper ninjas. for the slow heavy armoured "chubby" devils you'll want your anti ninja, they pack a whollop!

so yeah basicly you get different ninjas. unlocking more as u progress through the story to defend a checkpoint in an area. if 10 demons pass the area without being destroyed you lose the level. cookies (the currency used) are earned when you defeat enemies, they can be used to buy more ninja huts or upgrade your existing ones. the music and sound effects are also amusing. the satisfying whack when one of you ninjas attacks sounds brill.

ah i forgot to mention the ninja powers and tokens. you'll build up a meter when you dispose of enemies. when its filled up to lvl 1,2 or 3 you'll be able to use a certain ninja power. also when you complete a level, a slot machine will appear. tap the screen and it will stop on a certain token. tokens can be placed on the map, they have some helpful effects. such as the ninja baby which will slow down your enemies or the ninja dropping which will poison and damage your enemies in a nearby area.

Fire Emblem: sacred stones

i recently got back into FE. if you dont know what that is then maybe you've heard of advance wars? no? well its kind of similar except its a more medevil setting, and your units earn XP. its basicly like a turn based strategy game with RPG elements. and of course you follow along a very predicatble story..kingdom falls. they fight back...evil dragon/person tries to do some nasty horrible thing and eventually you end up beating the S*** out of there ass. very addictive but very annoying if you want to keep ALL of your units..cuz once theyre HP goes to 0 theres no getting them back..no phoenix downs or revive spells in this one folks.

Riviera : the promised land

this is a little RPG gem that managed to rget past me somehow. it came out in 2002 for the GBA and was ported to the PSP with some graphical improvments i think..and voiceovers. its another japanese anime style game that you see cropping up EVERYWHERE these days. it has all the crazy hair styles and the infamous "redness around the nose to show shyness or being embararessed" you can take, sure these hair styles dont glow bright yellow when they scream AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! but there crazy enough..but thats besides the point. its actually VERY good. to say it was originally made for a crappy GBA. the story is unique too with some nice humour thrown in. i stumbled across it when i was browsing gamespot..then went to youtube to check out a video AND WHAT DO I FIND!?!? a bathing lebo scene from the game!!! WHATDAFUUUUUUUU,,,,,

of course thats not why i got it....the "grim angels" are servants of the magi or something who want to prevent another ragnarok(a big ass war between gods and demons) two grim angels are sent to riviera, they fight demons along the way and you get familiarized with the game with the help of your talking pussycat who for some reason has friggin' bat wings. so you come to the end of "heavens gate" and this phoenix thing attacks you, this girly summons it. you defeat it but she takes the main character, ereases his memmory and throws him into the village he was sent to destroy - riviera, in hopes he will change his mind. he does...(freakin obvious!!) and then has to journy to defeat "the accursed" kinda like big boss monsters. im guessin there gona drop some key shards or something so you can unlock hidden power or some S***.

Merry xmas and a happy new year.

Steve,

GAMES CURRENTLY PLAYING:

riviera : the promised land

Fire emblem:sacred stones

FF7 (cid only challenge)

il write another blog nxt week my sweet invisible audience.

yes friends, im bored enough to write another blog....sooo lately iv been looking for some new xbox 360 games..and like any smart buyer i was checking out some demos on xboxLIVE, i downloaded fracture..which i heard about from the sarcastic gamer podcast...if you dont listen to it..subscribe to it on itunes its really good. i downloaded the demo and i thought WOW. you have something called an "entrencher" and it can raise or lower the terrain, more or less dirt but still! i played through the demo mission. has some intresting weapons too. one of which is a "spike grenade" when thrown into the ground a pillar of hardened rock shoots from the ground and this is used in certain puzzles im guessing, because in the tutorial i had to use a spike grenade to create a ramp with a sheet of metal on the ground.

i love third person shooters so we hit it off pretty well. the game reminds me of "too human" for some reason..so thats a good game..next while browsing down the list i noticed racedriver GRID..i thought better late than never to get in on all that buzz...i heard some great things about GRID but was TOTALLY dissapointed with it...the controlls...ugh...talk about awful..the damage effecting the responsiveness of your car i REALLY hated. maybe its because im a reckless driver...maybe its because im a burnout player at heart. who knows - but this game fails imo. what i did like is the whole flashback thing..if you crash bad enough to totally F**K up your car then you have the option to rewind time to a point near the area of impact..be it round the corner or whatever.

then i thought id try endwar...the game i read about MONTHS back that was goign to use voice command..intresting! i thought....turns out its not even that great. but again maybe this is because i loved the c&c games. its alright but...they need more commands..you have to say "unit 1 attack hostile 1" or "unit 5 attack hostile 3" it gets really tiring..i was thinking just "all units attack" or something but noooooooooooooooo they have to be awkward..not even "move out" or "advance" worked..it only recognises a set list of commands which i thought was awful. so dissapointing..

so i guess i wont be picking up GRID or endwar..but i will be getting fracture whenever i got the dough.

well, first blog..new to gamespot and all that..and i dont know if anybody is going to be reading this but i think that the latest starwars game released by lucasarts is simply amazing. the psp version has some exclusive stuff and the graphics are pretty good for the psp. the lightsabre duels has to be the best thing for me. i think the reason why i like this titlle so much is because im treating it as a whole new story..the way i would a film..so with this new release the story would be in this order:

episode 1>episode 2>episode 3>force unleashed>episode 4...you get the picture..

so darth vader has an apprentice...but nobody can know...so you have to basicly kill everyone that see's you and fufil vaders requests..all i will say is that he gets hold of him when he is still a boy from a recently extinguished battlefield..vader kills the stormtroopers in the surrounding area and sweeps the boy away from his home to train him in the dark arts.

there are some pretty big revealations in the game. the biggest one however i was a little dissapointed with..as it left alot unexplained. the ending was good, and it shows you how powerful this apprentice is, who is never named by the way.

i need to get this for my 360...lush graphics and all that good sh*t ya'know?

definatly worth the price. and its one of those psp games, at least for me, you keep on playing and playing until you complete the story (because its good)