I was planning to write around the end of January, but I got busy working from home. So I'm trying to do a monthly update about my gaming life. As I mentioned in the previous blog, I decided to challenge myself to beat 25 games for 2013. As of today, I beat 4 games: The Walking Dead: Telltale game, Unfinished Swan, Trine 2, & Bayonetta. 

The Walking Dead (ps3)- I have to say this episodic game was pretty damn awesome. The story is really good. It was well paced, engaging,well voiced and entertaining. I love the adaptive storyline and how the choices were carried out.The gaming mechanics were very minimal, but the story was soo good that it wasn't necessary, and i think helped the overall experience.

The only drawback to this game was its bothersome frame rate dips. I heard that this was really bad only on the ps3. Other than that, it was really good. It made my top 100 all time favorite games (still in progress), and it actually got me to watch the tv show (which is also pretty awesome). If i were to give this game a rating, I would give it  9.0

Unfinished Swan (ps3)- This was an okay game. It was visualy beautiful, and the world was pretty interesting to go through.This game is charming and i loved the ending credits...but....

The game was too simple. The puzzles weren't overly frustrating but it wasn't challenging either. The story wasn't engaging and the charm didn't carry all the way through. I think more could have been done with this game. all in all i would give this game 6.5

Trine 2 (ps3)- Awesome game. I went through the game in Co-op mode with my girl, and both of us had a lot of fun. The puzzles weren't difficult, but it was enough so to make teamwork integral to the game. This was visually stunning, and heart warming in a way that trine 2 brought me back to my childhood of playing games cooperatively and having tons of fun pointing out platforms and how to get to the next checkpoint. Although this game wasn't difficult, it didn't need to be.

My one only gripe is the physics were weird. it felt a bit floaty and jumps were sometimes more difficult than it should be.  I would give this game 8.0 and definitely should be experienced with friends

Bayonetta (ps3)- This was one weird game. It had a lot of low and high points.

Gameplay wise, the action was top notch with plethora of combo moves at your disposal. Really awesome weapons and frantic battles...when it was paced correctly. I was utterly bored through the first 7 chapters excluding boss fights. After that however, the action ramped up and i was having such a blast hacking away at enemies. When the action slowed, it was really slow, and when the action ramped up, it was almost overwhelming.

story was horrible (incase you cared)It wasn't horrible because it was clearly full of themes that appealed to japanese culture , but because the one liners were horrible that i think even japanese people would have an issue with. Now i know that story doesn't necessarily have to have a great story, but this game had a lot of cut scenes. It was hard to follow the story because of the annoying dialogue.

Another thing i found weird was the ending. I thought i beat the game on 5 separate occasions. I put down my controller to enjoy the cutscenes only to realize i had to pick it back up lol.

I don't know if i liked this game or i hated it. there were a lot of great things about this game, but the issues i had were really annoying. 7.5

So i have 21 more games to beat and a whole lot of backlog. I'm going through a couple of games right now so hopefully i get to finish 2 more before this month is over. Not sure if i can do it since i know i'm going to be busy. Stay tuned