Although I’ve been progressing through my 2011 games more or less in alphabeticaly sequence up until now, I’ve got to briefly break from that to hit a game that seems to have slipped through the cracks somehow: Limbo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Like so many other XBLA exclusives that eventually come to other platforms, I played Limbo much later than everyone else. I really enjoyed it though. Dark, disturbing, and pleasingly puzzly, Limbo is a perfect bite-sized downloadable game. I enjoyed it so much that I wrote all kinds of hints posts for it. Limbo gets a B<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles<\/strong> was largely about nostalgia for me. Resident Evil 2 was probably my favorite game on the original Playstation, exceeding even Symphony of the Night. The fact that Umbrella Chronicles retells that story within an on-rails shooter sounded awesome to me.<\/p>\n

The reality is that while it was fun to re-experience the story, on-rails shooters never end up being as fun as I want them to be. And like Darkside Chronicles, it got extremely hard towards the end and I was unable to\u00a0finish the game and see its ending. Too bad. Darkside Chronicles gets a C<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

My wife and I have always enjoyed playing RPGs together. We’ve played Dungeon Siege, Icewind Dale 1 & 2, Baldur’s Gate 2, Neverwinter Nights, Champions of Norrath, and we’re currently trying out Hunted: The Demon’s Forge. So back before we’d tried Dungeon Siege 3, we tried Sacred 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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As it turned out, Sacred 2<\/strong> wasn’t that great. The game mechanics were weird and hard to grasp, the leveling and combat weren’t satisfying, and in the end we just quit before we got very far. Sacred 2 gets a D<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Before the big holiday releases of 2011 started hitting, Shadow of the Colossus HD<\/strong> was one of my most looked forward to games. I’d loved playing the original, and I’ve always loved replaying good games. Now, I got to replay this one with trophies! It’s ridiculous to think I’d try to get all the lizards or fruits in the game, and I didn’t have much interest in time attack or hard mode, but I did very much enjoy the playthrough. The HD remake of Shadow of the Colossus gets a B. I plan to get to Ico HD sometime in early 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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