Echocrome: First Impressions
The Echocrome demo has just been released on the Japanese PSN. Luckily its a small download and as result of that, a very quick play through as well. For better or worse, I’ve had a chance to play through it and gather some “first impressions.”
4 commentsPixelJunk Monsters Update (and some strategy)
I was a bit quick to judge PixelJunk Monster. Apparently “tower defense” games are an entire genre like “fps” or “rpg” (td?). So apologies for lumping it in with desktop tower defense. I finally purchased Monsters in full at the urging of a friend…and with a bit of reluctance loaded it up and played through the tutorial and easy levels once more…
No commentsConflict: Denied OPS first impressions
Last week a demo with no real buzz or info hit the PSN, its name “Conflict: Denied OPS” which is confusing in itself doesn’t really say much either. So is this a hidden gem or forgettable fodder? Well, unfortunately its singleplayer experience is more the latter, however it does feature a coop mode which does deserve some attention.
No commentsImpressions of Pixeljunk Monsters demo
Quick bit of background, Pixel Junk Monsters is a “re imagined” remake of the popular online flash game “Tower Defense” where troupes of would be scallywags meander there way past your defenses to mercilessly rape and pillage your village of innocents.
4 commentsTurok and Fifa street first impressions
Another Thursday goes by and new tasty demos are dropped on to the Playsation Store. But should you waste precious bandwidth downloading these behemoths? Maybe this will help you decide:
No commentsYakuza Kenzan and the Club “first impressions”
I use my pseudo Japan and Euro PSN accounts for two things, one, getting demos that aren’t released in North America’s region and two, getting a small dose of culture shock by watching commercials for the PS3 in other regions.”Yakuza 3″ or “(japanese characters) Kenzan!” as its known in Japan recently had its 2 part demo released. Not knowing any Japanese beyond “Hello, Goodbye and yes another please” I wasn’t expecting to understand much of the text or voice from the game. Buy hey, I played through the Devil May Cry 4 demo quite easily (no it’s not released…long story) and figured this would be similar since Yakuza was an action game…or so I thought. Read more 2 comments