Sunday, 30 March 2014

Alien Hominid



Alien Hominid was released on the Gameboy advance, later on the PC on the website Newgrounds (although it was removed after a while), on the Playstation 2, on the gamecube, on the nintendo ds, on the playstation and finally on the Playstation Portable. It is a fun and funny 2d side scrolling beat ‘em’ up. You get different weapons but if you don’t like the weapons you can always bite the enemies head off or knife them. The graphics are overall very nice. You play as an alien getting chased by the FBI. It tries to put comedy into all of it. At every chance it gets it puts in strange characters, weird bosses and disturbing facial expressions.


Rating:
8.9
Pros

  • Good cartoony graphics.
  • Funny (but gory) gameplay.
  • Good varying level design.

Cons:

  • The bosses don’t vary very much
  • Same continuous enemies.

Friday, 14 March 2014

Facade

http://facadegame

Facade is an indoor interactive adventure where you play as a random person. The graphics are actually quite good for a ‘90’s game. You start off being invited over to Trip and Grace’s house, but then things start to go wrong. There is a problem with the speech as there is an unfair limit to how much you can type. Also, they love to kick you out for unfair reasons. Such as, if trip says hi and you say melon he will immediately shut you out. Also the loading screen takes forever. 

Rating
7.9
Pros

  • Fun to interact with Grace and Trip and see their expressions.
  • Hilarious to play with grace and trip.
  • Feels really realistic (although not graphically).
  • Good graphics for a ‘90’s game.

Cons

  • Unfair word limit.
  • You get kicked out for the dumbest reasons.

Monday, 3 March 2014

Once Upon A Life

http://Newgrounds


In Once Upon A Life you play a golden oldie called Henry, who has lost the pages in his diary. As you collect the right amount of memories, he recites some of his memories. It presents a good amount of challenge, as well as allowing you to do all sorts of minigames. The graphics are lovely cartoony graphics that suit it well. It has brilliant voice actors, and the game makes you do things you wouldn’t even think of originally doing. There are also some sad parts such as when Henry recites his wife, Marianna, dying. The game is a very funny game of mixed emotions and activities.

Rating
9.9
 Pros


  • Good controls.
  • Well made minigames.
  • Brilliant cartoon graphics.
  • Good cutscenes.
  • Properly thought through gameplay.






Cons


  • Difficulty is sometimes a bit too hard.