I finished playing Heavy Rain on Tuesday night, and I’ve got to say that I loved it. It’s odd though – while I expected to want to immediately launch into a second playthrough as I did with Dragon Age, I’m finding that I’m content with the story I’ve chosen. Since so much of the game’s […]

Read the rest of Dekidification: Final Thoughts on Heavy Rain

I’ve been playing Heavy Rain now for two evenings, and I’m probably 5 or 6 hours in. Before they made Heavy Rain, Quantic Dream released a game called Indigo Prophecy, which I absolutely loved despite the game’s severely flawed denoument. I can say now that although Heavy Rain contains no science fiction beyond some advanced […]

Read the rest of Consequences: Heavy Rain Initial Impressions

Keepers is a weekly segment in which I discuss games I’ve played that I’ve seen fit to keep after playing. I generally sell a game that I’ve finished, so the only reason I keep one is because I plan to replay the game some day. Classifying a game as a “keeper” is generally a badge […]

Read the rest of Keepers: Fahrenheit

The Aisle is a very different type of game. It’s a text adventure, but the entire game consists of a single decision, and thus takes less than a minute to play. You’re in a supermarket looking at pasta. What will you do? Pick up the pasta? Move away? Eat the pasta raw? Sexually assault other […]

Read the rest of Free Game Friday: The Aisle

I’ve never played any of the original Monkey Island games, but I’ve heard people rave about them. Now, it looks like TellTale games, makers of the new Sam & Max and Strong Bad adventure games have a new episodic game series on the boards: Tales of Monkey Island. The series is debuting July 7th for the […]

Read the rest of A New Monkey Island Game

Keepers is a weekly segment in which I discuss games I’ve played that I’ve seen fit to keep after playing. I generally sell a game that I’ve finished, so the only reason I keep one is because I plan to replay the game some day. Classifying a game as a “keeper” is generally a badge […]

Read the rest of Keepers: Twilight Princess

…except the name of the game does not have the word “poop” in it. Yeah, it’s juvenile. Yeah, it reminds me of some of the crude text adventures I’d played on my Commodore 64 when I was 14. And it bills itself as “survival horror”. But it’s old school in that it’s not easy. A […]

Read the rest of Free Game Friday: Don’t Poop Your Pants

When I first had the idea for a Free Game Friday segment, the first two games that came to mind were Wasteland and Maniac Mansion Deluxe. I first played Maniac Mansion years ago on my Commodore 64. It was a wonderfully nonlinear adventure game with multiple solutions to its problems, excellent humor, and a lot […]

Read the rest of Free Game Friday: Maniac Mansion Deluxe

This game is part of the Retro Remakes project. I remember playing The Hobbit on my Commodore 64. I never really got any further than the goblins’ cells, but that’s largely because I had no walkthroughs back then, and I suck at adventure games. If you like adventure games, or retro games, give it a […]

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For this week’s Free Game Friday, I look back to a post Michael Abbott made last week, wherein he talks about this remake of the original Quest For Glory II, which has been given a total overhaul and released for free. The sequel to Hero’s Quest, Quest for Glory II is an old school adventure […]

Read the rest of Free Game Friday: Quest For Glory 2