Skullgirls Encore Review

Here we go, fight fight fight!

More reviews and other content to come!

Buy this game:
This game is available digitally on the following stores:
PlayStation Network Store
Xbox Live Arcade
Steam
(The game is available for free on the PlayStation Plus for the month of May 2014)
Apparently the game is on an ACTUAL arcade, too!? WHAT?

Skullgirls Encore is owned by Lab Zero Games

PES 2014 Review

People care about soccer... right?

More reviews and other content to come!

Buy this game:
PS3- http://tinyurl.com/lyggjj6
PS2- No clue where to buy it, but it exists apparently
PSP- No clue where to buy it, but it exists apparently
360- http://tinyurl.com/kktpm4a
3DS- No clue where to buy it, but it exists apparently


(The game is available for free on the PlayStation Plus for the month of May 2014)

PES 2014 is owned by... oh jeez I don't even know where to begin

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (2013) Review

Who's the leader of the club that's made for you and me
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Hey there, Hi there, Ho there your as welcome as can be
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Mickey Mouse! (Donald Duck!)
Mickey Mouse! (Donald Duck!)
Forever let us hold our banners high
High, high, high

Come along and sing a song and join the jamboree
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Mickey Mouse Club!
Mickey Mouse Club!

We'll have fun
We'll meet new faces
We'll do things and we'll go places
All around the World we're marching...

Who's the Leader of the club that's made for you and me?
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E
Hey there, Hi there, Ho there your as welcome as can be
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Mickey Mouse! (Donald Duck!)
Mickey Mouse! (Donald Duck!)
Forever let us hold our banners high
High, high, high

Come along and sing the song and join the Jamboree
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E

Yeah Mickey!
Yeah Mickey!
Yeah Mickey Mouse Club!

More reviews and other content to come!

Buy this game:
This game is available online through the PlayStation Network Store, Xbox Live Arcade, Windows and iOS.

(The game is available for free on the PlayStation Plus for the month of April 2014)

Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse is owned by Disney, and published by Sega

Stealth Inc.: A Clone in the Dark Review

I think I'm a clone now

More reviews and other content to come!

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/appsplus1
Blip: http://blip.tv/appsplus

Buy this game:
{This game is available exclusively through various digital distribution stores}

(The game is available for free on the PlayStation Plus for the month of April 2014)

Stealth Inc.: A Clone in the Dark or "Stealth Bastard" as its friends call it, is owned by Jonathan Biddle and Curve Studios

Batman Arkham City Review

Thomas Was Alone Review

This week, a suspiciously charming platformer

More reviews and other content to come!

Buy this game:
This game can be bought through various means via its official site:
http://www.mikebithellgames.com/thoma...

(The game is available for free on the PlayStation Plus for the month of March 2014)

Thomas Was Alone is owned by Mike Bithell

Lone Survivor (Review...?)

I... don't know what just happened

More reviews and other content to come!

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(The game is available for free on the PlayStation Plus for the month of March 2014)

Lone Survivor is owned by Superflat Games and Jasper Byrne

Tomb Raider (2013) Review

This week, we could raid some tombs. You know.
If you want

More reviews and other content to come!

Buy this game:
Xbox 360- http://tinyurl.com/qh6ve7n
PlayStation 3- http://tinyurl.com/pak43xu
PC- http://tinyurl.com/odzvbsv
Steam- http://tinyurl.com/atx3n75
PlayStation 4- http://tinyurl.com/qabl65d
XBox One- http://tinyurl.com/ppnrvaf

(The game is available for free on the PlayStation Plus for the month of March 2014)

Tomb Raider is owned by Square Enix

Remember Me Review

This week, Remember Me?

More reviews and other content to come!

Buy this game:
Xbox 360- http://tinyurl.com/kvl7qle
PlayStation 3- http://tinyurl.com/n6sp9hx
PC- http://tinyurl.com/kdaptxb
Steam- http://tinyurl.com/klb55yd

Metro Last Light is owned by Deep Silver Studios

Metro Last Light Review

This week... Metro Last Light... ugh...

More reviews and other content to come!


Buy this game:
Xbox 360- http://tinyurl.com/kvl7qle
PlayStation 3- http://tinyurl.com/n6sp9hx
PC- http://tinyurl.com/kdaptxb
Steam- http://tinyurl.com/klb55yd


Metro Last Light is owned by Deep Silver Studios

Recommendations of the Week: June 26 2013

Recommendations of the Week are back, and they've been revamped a bit! from now on, we'll each be giving one recommendation each per week. Hopefully this'll add some variety to the list!

Ernesto Guillermo recommends you get prepped for MLS and CFL now that hockey and basketball are over.
Go White Caps go!

Hatok recommends this up and coming youtube reviewer. Stuck between two pipes, this guy reviews classic Gameboy games with admirable dedication to staying in character.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheLonelyGoomba

Lorl recommends the original Paper Mario for the Nintendo 64, a classic RPG with unique action gameplay and a funny script.

(Hatok's note: BEWARE OF STICKER STAR!!)

Bryan, the Cake Loving Artist, recommends OpenTTD. An open source recreation of the classic and very fun 1995 Transport Tycoon game. It's free!
http://www.openttd.org/en/






Hope you enjoyed the new and improved recommendations of the week, see you next time!

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance Part 1

In case you haven't picked up on it, Kingdom Hearts is one of my most dearly beloved of franchises. When I found out the 3DS would be home to some of my favourite games, such as Paper Mario, and even a sequel to Luigi's Mansion, I predicted it would be a great system to buy. The fact that a new Kingdom Hearts was making its way there was icing on the cake! But how does it stack up? Let's take a look at the individual parts.

Kingdom Hearts is comprised of two flavours of meat, the cutscenes and the gameplay. People love or hate them for various reasons. In terms of story, Dream Drop Distance is fairly standard in terms of storytelling for the franchise, at least ever since Kingdom Hearts II. Expect your usual twists and turns, characters who look like other characters, but aren't quite the same. A notable addition is a mysterious grey haired youth (not to be confused with slightly less mysterious grey haired youth Riku, who serves as one of two playable characters in this game) who serves as a surprisingly cultured villain. In terms of pacing, quick frankly, it's quite poor. The bulk of the game revolves around longtime protagonists Sora and Riku attempting to retrieve a mysterious power from a realm of dreams, with some vague cutscenes helping to suggest that something more is afoot. Then things suddenly explode in the final level, revealing plot twists and double truths by the bucket full.
Honestly, I think Kingdom Hearts has started to revel too much in its alleged 'complicated' plot. What I've found, however, is that the story isn't really terribly complex, but rather, can't be explained without going through a rather lengthy set of steps. Sure, you could explain that the villain of the franchise is called Xehanort, but that wouldn't account for him stealing somebodies body, splitting it in two, changing his name, acting independently, fusing back together, then forming a group and... well, you get the picture. The filler of the Kingdom Hearts story has always come from the assorted Disney themed worlds that you visit, of which there are five in this game, an all time low for the franchise. They are fairly well produced, with top notch voice acting, excellent animation. Usual Square Enix stuff. However, the worlds themselves feel ridiculously empty (more on that later) and the story seems to rely far too much on your prior knowledge of the source material. This was especially bad for this game's adaptation of the relatively recent TRON Legacy movie, something I have not yet seen. Similarly, the relationships between characters is rarely explained properly, leading to things such as a sudden romantic plot point being introduced at the end of the world based on the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
All and all, I'd say the story is somewhat weak, a trend that continues with the music. Longtime series composer Yoko Shimomura returns, and her stuff is great, though not her best. The problem lies in the additional composers, whose music sounds largely bland and uninspired to me. This game by no means has a bad soundtrack, however, previous Kingdom Hearts games have spoiled me.
Graphically, there isn't anything to complain about, animations look good and models are excellently detailed. The locations have a habit of looking nice, but lacking any sense of life, however. It's Square Enix though, they can make things look nice.
But there's a lot more to this game than what I've covered here, come back next week for the conclusion.

This is the second game to feature both Sora and Riku has protagonists

The franchise's flashy combat returns

Belle Bitches About: REVOLUTION

I like me some J. J. Abrams. LOST? Sure. Super 8? Why not. Revolution?
No thank you.
I love post-apocalyptic stuff. Mostly because I like to think that in the event of, say, a zombie outbreak, I would become really fit. Nothing burns those calories like running from your undead and bloodthirsty families! So when I heard the plot to Revolution, I was intrigued. All the technology in the world shutting down? I’d have to convert all my Facebook hours into something useful in rebuilding society- probably foraging for berries or something.
(Side note: In the event of a nuclear holocaust, I would be a Radiation Canary)
So I ignored my homework and sat down to enjoy Revolution.
Except I didn’t.
Because it was terrible.
Seriously, it was awful. And I’ve watched Bunheads (also terrible).

PLOT 

This dude named Ben phones his wife, warns her all the technology in the world is going to shut down. Also phones his bro Miles, who is driving on the highway. All of a sudden, the phone craps out; along with everything else ever. Including cars- what’s up with that? (Cue Jerry Seinfeld impression) Flash forwards fifteen years until Ben’s daughter “Charlie” (how adorable, using a male nickname shows she’s just one of the guys) is just barely legal. She also has a brother named Danny but as he is younger and whiny and less attractive so we care about him less.
Anyways, there’s sheep and cornfields and shit, and the remaining survivors live in this weird fiefdom where they pay taxes to the Monroe Republic. Ben moons over a glorified flashdrive that he downloaded stuff onto before the blackout. It is also implicitly stated that he’s getting it on with the town doctor, Maggie, since his wife died. Danny has an asthma attack and is generally worthless, while Charlie pulls the “you’re not my mom” argument. We also meet Zak, a chubby man whose sole purpose is comic relief.
A dude named Tom, along with the militia, rolls in and orders Ben to come with him. Danny gets caught in a Mexican stand-off that results in him killing his own father, proving his own worthlessness. Charlie comes back from her teen angst-y huff to find her father dead and her brother kidnapped-surprise!
Ben manages to prolong his inevitable death to croak out a few sentences, telling Charlie that her uncle Miles is living in Chicago. He entrusts the flashdrive to the fat guy.
They make it to Chicago, picking up a potential love interest on the way. They meet Miles in an old hotel, and after the most unrealistic sword fighting scene ever (accompanied with a “family is what matters most” speech from Charlie) our triumphant heroes set on their way.

THINGS THAT WERE GOD AWFUL

1) CHARLIE

Wow, NBC. Are you even trying?
Jumping on the Hunger Games bandwagon, Charlie is an exact replica of Katniss Everdeen, albeit with more cleavage shots. Complete with leather jacket, boots, and- dear god, a bow and arrow. I can’t tell is Charlie is just a huge Mary Sue (mom dead, father dead, strong sense of family values, honey brown hair) or is just the worst character ever. During her impassioned speech to Miles, I actually thought she was copying it word for word from the “Ohana means family” speech from Lilo and Stitch  Also? No self-respecting woman is gonna traverse miles in a tiny little tank top. That’s when you bust (pun intended) out the sports bra.

2) DANNY

Way to give asthmatic people a bad name, bro. In ten minutes of screen time, Danny manages to get himself captured by the militia and kill his own father. Good job, champ.

3) ZAK (THE FAT GUY)

Okay, fine. I’ll let the whole sports bra thing go. But seriously, it’s IMPOSSIBLE for this guy to trek through harsh terrain! How is he even that chunky? All you can eat in the technological dark age is twigs or animals you can butcher yourselves! I thought it was survival of the fittest! Why would Ben give the flashdrive to this dude and not his own daughter? Why does he spell his name like that? HOW DOES HE HAVE PRESCRIPTION GLASSES?

4) SHIRTLESS LOVE INTEREST

Don’t mind me here, just fishin’ in the river with my shirt off! Perfectly normal thing to do! What? An attractive female, just around my age? What a coincidence!  Look at me, in the prime of my youth! Everyone will write R-rated fanfics starring Charlie and I! Surprise, I’m on the opposing side! How even MORE romantic!
Yeah right, buddy. Everyone and their friggin dog knew you were a bad guy. Also, did you even have a name at all? I got nothing.

5) MILES

All right, I’m just saying what we’re all thinking. That guy is Bella’s dad, sans mustache. And I don’t like that.

6) GUNS > SWORDS

I don’t care how many flips you do, or how many stone pillars you hide behind. If you have a sword and the other guys have guns, you’re pretty much out of luck. Also that was the least realistic fight ever.

7) DAT ACTING

Oy, that was rough. Everyone sounded like they had the vaguest notion of how humans were supposed to act. It was like they got the scripts a week before and were like “oh, I’ll read it later, I have zumba”, then were like “Oh yeah, that. Well I still have four days, I’ll do it sometime.” Then when filming rolls around they realize that they actually haven’t done shit all. Better do a quick skim and bullshit the rest!

8) YOUR MOTHER IS DEAD

Except it’s pretty much a given that your mom is, in fact, NOT dead. Way to go Ben, you’re shacking up with a woman WHILST YOUR WIFE IS STILL ALIVE. I hope you feel like a dick.


I didn't like this show. I didn't like it at all. I wouldn't even give it the privilege of being “That Show that I Watch When There’s Nothing Else On” (That is reserved for old reruns of the Office). I watch a lot of bad TV, but this was pretty bad. I didn't even find Male Love Interest attractive.

OVERALL

I liked the part where the planes fell from the sky. That was pretty cool.

2/10, would not watch again.