Leveling Down

What else will E3 bring besides building sized ads for Final Fantasy XIII?

Punch Out!
This game is awesome! I’ve been spending the bulk of the week working through the normal game mode. After I finished that I started right on Title Defense mode, which features more difficult versions of all the original fighters. For fans of the classic, this game is a definite must buy. For those who aren’t diehard Punch Out fans, I’ll have a quick review up later this week. The game reminds me of a hefty old school challenge, in a good way.

Broken Sword
I finished this game and was a little disappointed by the ending. I guess in a puzzle point and click adventure it’s all about the journey, but the story got super convoluted and hard to follow at the end so that detracted from the experience a bit. This is definitely a good game, but it’s not gonna crack my pantheon of point and click favorites (Monkey Island, Full Throttle). It just doesn’t have the same charm and humor of those LucasArts titles.

Dead Space
I definitely think Bioshock is the superior experience. Dead Space is starting to feel like a poor man’s Bioshock to me, and I miss Bioshock’s “choose your own method of killing” gameplay. Like Bioshock, the game is pretty linear, which is what it is. I do enjoy the different weapons at your disposal and how they aren’t “conventional” weapons, it definitely keeps things interesting. I can definitely envision this being a game that I never finish though…

E3
Lookin forward to seeing what comes out of E3 this week. There are rumors there will be a new Mario or Zelda title (or both!), I’m dying to hear what Kojima is announcing (and tired of following his countdown to a countdown), and hoping Sony announces a PS3 price cut (I’m incredibly skeptical). Sometimes I feel silly buying into convention hype, but with this being such a boring time for console gaming, I’ll take what I can get!

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