Originally written and posted on August 7, 2008. Review was later revised and reposted on March 2, 2010.
PixelJunk: Monsters
I was once a cynical person who looked at downloadable games from the PlayStation Store and the like as tantamount to browser games; cheap trinkets only useful for frittering away empty time. And while I can’t in [...]
Originally written and posted on June 25, 2009.
Prinny: Can I Really Be The Hero?
“Prinnies” are tiny disposable peg-legged penguins that are blessed with a pair of superfluous bat wings, sport brown hip-packs, and are as fond of sword based combat as they are of the word “dood.” They are also incredibly fretful, bound to eternal [...]
Originally written and posted on April 14, 2009.
MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
The original MotorStorm was an incredibly attractive game, unfortunately held back by its bare bone features and lack of content. The core gameplay was (and still is) a lot of fun but there just wasn’t enough of it to merit a full price purchase. I picked [...]
Originally written and posted on June 16, 2009.
Infamous
Infamous is a third person sandbox style game developed by Sucker Punch Productions exclusively for the PS3. While Sucker Punch has had experience in 3D platforming with the Sly Cooper series on the PS2 (the company’s only other notable franchise), Infamous is only their first project for Sony’s [...]
Originally written on October 17, 2008.
Burnout Paradise
Racing games tend to camp out on two extremes of a difficulty spectrum, which often makes them very hard for me to enjoy. On one end of the spectrum, there are piss easy and unremarkable romps through juvenile cookie cutter track designs that lose any sense of fun because [...]