OddWorld: Strangers Wrath – and a blast from the past

It may just be me, or that I’m particularly tired (I am – the kids had a disturbe night last night through illness) but this game is the most irritating and frustrating thing I’ve played in ages. It may, of course, just be fall out from the joy of Resident Evil 4. Anyway, I’m in

Read more

Golden Sun (GBA)

This is my current mobile game. I’ve clocked an insane amount of hours on it in the past, but it’s so good that – inspired by the rich and luscious visuals provided by my DS, I’ve started again. (Ignore the Japanese visuals, above). It never ceases to amaze me that a fully fledged turn based

Read more

Oddworld: Strangers Wrath (Xbox)

This is my daytime game at the moment – playable when the kids are up and about without giving them the screaming habdabs. It seems to be that the blokes who do the oddworld series can do no wrong – consistently turning out beautiful, original, and fiendishly tough games, and Strangers Wrath is no exception.

Read more

Dear Mr Krauser,

About that facially applied rocket launcher – I do feel very very bad about it but then you really did bring it upon yourself by being an incredibly annoying mutant-alien-thingy. I have to confess that the immense satisfaction caused by turning you into tomato puree has more than justified the stress, grief, and anguish you’ve

Read more

It’s Huge! – Resident Evil 4

It just keeps going! I have to say, there’s a moment where an extended cutscene requires loads of fast-reaction button presses at various stages which was getting a bit annoying. Then I realised that there was a continue point part way through the cutscene so you don’t have to go right back to the start.

Read more

It’s Huge! – Resident Evil 4

It just keeps going! I have to say, there’s a moment where an extended cutscene requires loads of fast-reaction button presses at various stages which was getting a bit annoying. Then I realised that there was a continue point part way through the cutscene so you don’t have to go right back to the start.

Read more

World of Warcraft – Dodgy boxes

Bah. I knew it was only a matter of time. The quadruple DVD case which WoW comes in is a bit pants, because the spindles that hold the disk are too rigid. Well, the inevitable finally happened – when trying to take one of the disks out of the case, the disk split right down

Read more

Ok, so the island’s not so nice

Cos it’s full of horrible shambling things that are nigh on indestructible unless you snipe at specific bits of them as they’re lunging at you. Quite a few brown trouser moments, last night. On the downside – if there is such a thing with Resident Evil 4 – the save points are becoming a little

Read more