February 2009 Indie Game Round-Up 27
gametunnel1 brings us the February round-up of reviews for recent independent game releases. The top game this time around was Crayon Physics, which was also celebrated at the Independent Games Festival. Also scoring high were Ragdoll Cannon and adventure game Emerald City Confidential, about which they say, "The game is set in the mythical land of Oz, but not quite the same one as the movie/books. Rather than a cheery and fun-filled world, Oz is depicted like a 1940s film noir, so things are much bleaker. ... The highlight of the gameplay would have to be the gathering of information, via investigation of the environment or questioning characters in the game. Talking to characters for leads and clues is fun, especially since sometimes you'll have to figure out if what they're saying has any significance or not."
Huh WTF? How young are the reviewers? (Score:5, Insightful)
About "Air bandits":
Air Bandits, from developer Insofta Games, is a side-scrolling airplane-shooter. In other words, it's a clash of two genres that you wouldn't necessarily expect to work together.
I take it the reviewer has never been to an arcade, or owned an 8 bit micro.
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Or played Sopwith [wikipedia.org] on pc. It's slightly older than I am, but I played it because it was one of the games on my dad's pc when I was younger.
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A blatant upgrade to Time Pilot. Really come on I was playing this in the 80s and it was better.
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Time Pilot was top down.
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moonfall land of dreams (Score:1)
here is another awesome idle title definately a check it out.
http://www.delusions.vg/product_land_of_dreams.php [delusions.vg]
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hmm? (Score:2, Informative)
No reference to The Unfinished Swan [iandallas.com] or World of Goo [worldofgoo.com]? Or how about The Maw [mawgame.com] (which is a bit boring after a while, but in a really cute way)?
Physics seems to be the "next big thing" in games. And those games rely a lot on that. Or are they not "Indy" enough?
Re:hmm? (Score:4, Informative)
No reference to The Unfinished Swan or World of Goo? Or how about The Maw (which is a bit boring after a while, but in a really cute way)?
Probably because this is a review of games that came out LAST MONTH not LAST YEAR.
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The first one isn't released, the second one won their game of the year last year - they can;t put it it in every month for all time, the third one also doesn't seem to be released?
So you want the monthly games to include stuff from last year and from next year???
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The Maw was released in January on the XBox 360 and last week or so on Steam so I guess it depends on which system you have which month you'll count it for.
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I was fooled by the site's "STORE" linking being a "coming soon" on mouse over. The "Buy Now" icon on the main image is outside my view area and I didn't scroll right...
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World of Goo is head-and-shoulders above all of these games. No idea why it didn't make the list.
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They Could Do Better... (Score:1)
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I'm not going argue about which game is more fun, since that's a subjective opinion, but Crayon Physics and Lemmings are nothing alike. The only similarity is that there is there is a goal at the end of each level. It's like saying Super Mario Brothers is just like Lemmings because there is also a goal at the end of each SMB level, or football is just like basketball because you're trying to move a ball in to a position such that you get points for it.
Also, I don't know why you are making an apples to ora
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Don't forget magicky-steampunk Oz. Didn't you see Tin Man?
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Oh god, wrong parent.
I'm so ashamed of myself.
Oz Genres (Score:3, Funny)
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Don't forget magicy-steampunk Oz. Didn't you see Tin Man?