Bought another of those little bundles of games, and I will review them shortly.
But first, I have realized that it doesn’t really matter all that much to me whether any of the games is good enough to become my major game du jour, like Fallout New Vegas is right at this moment.
In fact, it doesn’t even matter if I ever play them again after first trying them out.
The fun of trying out new games, maybe even ones I would never had tried had they not landed in the bargain been, is worth the price of admission all by itself.
The price of admission being less than a dollar each this time.
Now, on to the games :
Anna’s Quest. A fairly typical storybook style point and click adventure.
Anna is a little girl who gets captured by a thoroughly evil witch and has to escape the witch’s clutches and find the medicine to cure her ailing grandpa.
I say the game is typical, but that’s not quite true. It is typical in the broad strokes – narration by a kindly older narrator, page-turning style transitions, plenty of gently plucked harp and softly tapped xylophone in the sound track, and so on – but the details hold some charm and allure.
Anna, for instance, is not some young heroine who rises the occasion to be a stalwart hero both brave a true. She’s just a little girl with a little girl’s timid but sincere reactions to the strange and terrible circumstances she is in..
Similarly, the evil witch, while still being very evil and witchy, also has reactions that are more everyday and relatable than most villains.
Most importantly. the game gets a passing grade on whether or not the puzzles make sense. Not quite as good as the two horror games from the last batch, but still, the puzzles all make sense once you have solved them.
So I give this game a solid B+ recommend. Worth a try if you like the genre.
JYDGE. A surprisingly deep arcade-style top down shooter.
You wouldn’t think this sort of game would even still be around, let alone be as good as this one. The graphics are quite simple as are the mechanics of play, Move your character with the WSAD keys, point and click to ain and shoot, and that is about it.
But this is no lazy programming exercise. It’s a game whose seeming simplicity belies a game as fast paced and exciting as any big budget FPS,. The graphics are very neon pastel Eighties, as is the soundtrack, and the whole thing has a “Miami Vice” feel despite being so superficially simple.
Definitely has a strong learning curve, however. You will die a lot at first before you adapt to this new sort of game,.
Personally, I am loving it, despite dying a lot. The adrenaline factor is high, an the whole thing is very slick and well produced. I know I will be playing it more.
A grade recommend, especially for those of us who remember the Eighties.
I’ll do the others tomorrow,.
Dunno what’s with me today. I feel depressed and alienated and very, very tired. All I really want to do is sleep. Dealing with reality on even the most basic of levels seems like an impossible trial and I feel dark and dry and haunted.
I am worried I may be coming down with something.
OF course, it could just be that the chemical miasma of depression is particularly thick and pungent at the moment. When you are mentally ill, you can feel absolutely terrible without the intercession of a virus, bacteria, or microbe.
Gah. I feel like crawling into a dark hole forever.
And FRED is just a couple hours away. I might not make it. I feel like I am being slowly squashed flat by a giant’s boot. I feel edgy and twitchy and paranoid.
And I would hate to miss FRED. Not only would it mean missing a fun time eating and hanging out with friends, but it would probably also involve my missing my weekly shopping trip to the Sav-On and that always sucks big time by causing all kinds of deficiencies and expenses throughout the following week.
S I am going to try like hell to go, even thought I really, really, REALLY do not feel like it.
The only alternative I see is to skip FRED itself but ask Joe or Felicity to pick me up when it is done, and get as much sleep as I can while it is going on, hoping to somehow catch up before FRED is over.
It would be a bit of an imposition on whoever pciks me up and takes me shopping, but at least I would get my stuff and get to hang out with Joe and Felicity.
Alternately, I could order my groceries online. I have enough money on the card to cover it, and while it would mean spending an extra $7-$10 on the delivery fee, that would still be cheaper than what I would have paid to eat at FRED.
And I wouldn’t have to ask anything of anyone.
Yeah. That sounds likely. Heck, maybe I will even give Instacart another try. Sure,they won’t take my credit card (grr) but maybe they will take cash.
That would be nice. That way, I could get some of those amazing Real Canadian Superstore prices and a few of the products they stock that Sav-On does not.
Nope. Just looked it up. No cash option. Dang.
Guess I will be ordering from Sav-On then. Maybe. Who knows, maybe I will start feeling better in the next hour or so and the whole thing will be moot.
But thank you, dear reader, for letting me take up your time as I slowly talk my way around to a solution.
Like I always say, without you nice people, none of this could happen. I couldn’t write this blog without people to read it. It’s just how I am built.
So thank you, dear readers. I love you all.
I will talk to you nice people again tomorrow.