I seem to keep reviewing AGS-made adventure games that revolve around paranormal themes. Okay maybe they’re just making them. Okay so it was just the two Blackwell Games. Okay so Ben Jordan and Blackwell have the paranormal in common, and, the Shivah and Ben Jordan have murder in common. Actually that’s not true. The Shivah had someone die and leave money to the Rabbi. I only played the demo so I don’t know if it has anything to do with murder. Ok so here we go, I already spilled the beans, today’s adventure game is called Ben Jordan, Paranormal Investigator in In Search of the Skunk-Ape by Grundislav Games! Sound intriguing. I bet Skunk-Ape grabbed you right there! As I understand a Skunk-Ape is sort of like a smelly Big Foot. And you all know how smelly feet are! I decided to review the deluxe version, as it seems the creator’s original vision did come up to par with the rest of the series. In any case, let’s see how this thing works out!
Posts Tagged ‘retro styled’
(ags) Ben Jordan Case 1 – I must love adventure games about the paranormal.
Sunday, May 3rd, 2009Retroshoot – “SHOOOOoooooooooOOOOTTT!”, Grig from the Last Starfighter.
Friday, April 24th, 2009
What is with all this retro stuff anyways? I mean it’s pretty big, you have all the compilations out there, most recently the Sonic’s Ultimate Genesis Collection, not to mention Namco Museum, Midway Arcade Treasures 1, 2, and 3, Atari Anthology, Intellivision Lives. There was the Sonic Mega Collection. There was even all the Megaman games for the Gamecube. There was one with a bunch of Activision classics on it. Emulators are pretty big, the biggest is the arcade emulator MAME. What’s the deal with this anyways? Why are so many people into games that are old, or pretend to be old. For instance Geometry Wars was made to look like old vector graphics games. Puppy Games try to make theirs look like they belong to some oldschool game compilation or something, yet still with modern sound, and cool effects that you couldn’t get. I think there’s a lot of reasons. For me I get a chance to play games that were fun to me when I was a kid, and still are. Also some new games aren’t as fun as games used to be. They try to make it hyper-realistic, or accurate controls. Some first person shooters just have too many darn controls.
Droid Assault – All your droid belong to us!
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
What could be more awesome than fighting off alien invaders with your puny ship? Or fighting off robots with your one robot? You know the movie we’ve all been waiting for Star Wars: Salvation, where we finally get to see the Droid Wars. If that movie was going to be made, and it had a movie tie-in game then Droid Assault would be it! Wait a sec, cooler than fighting robots off with your one robot, isn’t that what this is? Well no, the only thing that could be cooler than that would be fighting off waves or robots with your own robot army! That’s right, instead of Robotron-style arena-based droid combat against impossible odds, you get Robotron-style arena-based multi-droid combat against incredible odds! That’s just what this is too! Unfortunately we don’t get to see C3P0 take on a Cyberdyne Systems model 101, but we can at least pretend.