In the Kunstkamera section, we talk about the most interesting and unusual loaded games that have been released in recent weeks. Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Store, Wiware and DSIWARE, Apple App Store – independent projects regularly appear in all these networks that are not in the main sections of our site, but which we are not entitled to be silent. Briefly about the most noticeable of them – here.
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Ancients of ooga
Genre: Platformer
Developer: Ninjabee
Platform: XBLA
Price: 800 mp
Many at least once in your life found themselves in a similar situation: you wake up in the morning with a terrible hangover, look around and publish a desperate moan: “Lord, what did I do yesterday?!»In the same way, the worst morning in the history of the UGA tribe began. These lovely natives poisoned the treacherous Buls, because of which the Ugansi was delirious in delirious all their leaders. Leaving the Uganians without bosses, Buli easily enslaved the entire tribe. When the UGA sober up and realized the seriousness of their situation, they turned to the Divine Intervention to the Ancient Spirit. In other words, to you.
Ancients of ooga very similar to classic The Lost Vikings – This is surprisingly interesting, diverse and in all respects a pleasant arcade puzzle. The deity itself cannot solve the problems of mortals with their own hands, but it can well take these hands from the natives. Each controlled native has its own characteristics: for example, some Ugants do not know how to swim, but they famously break their heads with the stone walls, some of the lavas do not know, and someone runs very quickly. Combining the skills of different natives, you have to jump a lot, fight with an aggressive fauna, solve puzzles and even at a certain moment to sacrifice yourself.
The main merit Ninjabee The fact that AOO seems to be completely devoid of any tension. This game is not trying to blow up your skull with super -word puzzles or to make you twist sticks in attempts to make a triple chatter with a coup. Instead, she entertains specific, but funny humor, pleases the eye with a stylish and sweet design and constantly feeds interesting situations. Sitting at the Ancents of Ooga, you subscribe to a session of comprehensive relaxation massage for the brain at a price of 800 Microsoft points. A profitable offer.
Grade: 7.5
Jett Rocket
Genre: Platformer
Developer: Shin’en Multimedia
Platform: WIIWARE
Price: 1000 NP
At first, Jett Rocket, of course, is shocking: for an inexpensive WIIWARA-players the size of forty megabytes, it looks like a model of technical perfection. It looks a little worse than the Super Mario Galaxy 2 (minus first -class artdireshen) – this is customary to sell on the disks. A pleasant three-dimensional arcade on a tropical island, beautiful animation, breathing in sunset … You immediately understand that somewhere here there is a trick!
Unfortunately, the problem of Jett Rocket is not in a banal lack of content, then the authors were just more or less twisted. A guy named Jett is friends with dolphins, collects bolts and flies on a jet satchel. The charge of the miracle rhubarin is enough seconds for five or six flights, so the jetpack is used only in case of extreme necessity: if you break off the cliff, you can run around the island for five minutes in search of a special station, where, making rhythmic movements with a remote control, you need to download a combustible into the device. For three hours, Jett jumps through the platforms and travels on elevators, and the scenery changes only in color, but in general they do not have time to become confused.
The nuance is that the only task of the hero is to collect bolts, and nothing happens at the levels. There are few enemies here, they give a ride on a boat only a few times per game, so you have to dutifully run in circles in search of sparkling glands. Jetpak charged – climbed the mountain – picked up a bolt – fell. I ran to the charger – downloaded fuel – rose even higher. Picked up a bolt – fell – ran to ..
Grade: 4.5
Robin Hood: The Return of Richard
Genre: Tire
Developer: Nordcurrent
Platform: WIIWARE
Price: 500 NP
The whole point Robin Hood: The Return of Richard expressed in the title of our heading: this is a pure kunstkamera, a quirk, after which hairy people, dwarfs or terrible guns to torture will seem to you a mere trifle. This is a defiantly arrogant infection, a shameless scam, which today is adjacent to more or less pleasant games for one important reason: warned-means armed!
For five dollars, on the wave of moderate success of the film "Robin Hood" Ridley Scott, a primitive shooting range is sold in Wiiware. Baby clone Moorhuhn , In which instead of familiar roosters, soldiers of Richard Lion's heart appear. And we shoot, of course, from onions. The unfortunate knights are trying to shoot on our sight from the catapults, in a panic they run along herbaceous landscapes, and sometimes even suddenly appear in the foreground – you yourself understand where. At the same time, they are guaranteed to receive an arrow between the eyes: a game is held in less than half an hour even the most inattentive player – at the same time you can at least solve Sudoku.
And now – scandals, intrigues, investigations. Actually, The Return of Richard entered the PC back in 2007, and it was, you won’t believe it, the same game. Which, in turn, honestly stole backs at another medieval shooting range, Robin Hood’s Tournament (he turns nine years old this year). The version for WII was even too lazy, the only difference is that the arshin inscription “The controller battery is discharged”, which, firstly, appears even when the battery seems to be in order and other games do not complain, and secondly, it interferes with aiming. Maybe these are the authors such a hardcore regime added? We somehow did not appreciate.
Grade: 0.5
RISK: FACTIONS
Genre: Step -by -step strategy
Developer: Stainess Games
Platform: XBLA
Price: 800 mp
Original RISK is a well -known board game from Parker Brothers. Simple rules, a minimum of props and a deep strategic component brought RISK great popularity. And at the same time and attention Stainess Games , intended to transfer the game to TV screens.
On the one hand, the developers reacted very carefully to the original: the rules and mechanics in RISK: FACTIONS In general, they remained almost unchanged, it is still a very deep and interesting strategy. On the other hand, the developers allowed themselves to make a couple of amendments to the gameplay to adapt the game to its new, virtual incarnation. From now on, it is not necessary to keep absolutely the entire map for victory at all-in the old days it was precisely because of hunting for the last pieces of land that the game was delayed for an hour or two. In RF, the one who will perform at least three special tasks wins in RF: for example, to capture a power station, at the same time keep in control of three cities and so on. There are several pieces of these tasks in each mission – choose what is most convenient for you to do in this situation. The parties in the new RISK have become much more dynamic and more intense, because the real race unfolds on the maps of affordable tasks.
However, probably the most important merit of Stainess Games in how they approached the visual side of the project: they made their own out of a terribly serious “about war” Worms: Armageddon. Each side of the conflict (and there are five of them – people, zombies, robots, yeti (!) and even cats (!!)) In its own way, instantly animated. So, during the clashes in the bottom of the screen, a small combat scene is played out, and if people expectedly watered the enemy with rifle fire, then the zombies throw torn limbs, and the cats bury the balls of wool. It seems to be a trifle – but great affects the mood from the party.
Grade: 8
Gundemonium Recollection
Genre: Scrolling
Developer: Rockin ’Android
Platform: PSN
Price: 200 rubles.
Obviously, without psychotropic scrollors, the most bread loaded genre, not one of our issues will cost. Last time was Söldner-X 2: Final Prototype , Now here Gundemonium Recollection. It seems to be both of them – fly from left to right and shoot. But the difference is essential.
Final Prototype was a qualitative-vascular arcade about space: it seems that the effects are beautiful, and the levels are bright, and the bosses are large, but dreary, as in the queue for a venereologist. Gundemonium is favorably different in if the main characters are an animated girl-kovboy, flying tomatoes explode around, huge eyes are watered by lasers, and the classic robbery of the train turns into a laser show on the day of victory in Penza.
Gundemonium Recollection focuses primarily on Contra , At the same time, not only the general style is borrined, but also the structure. There is a game on PS2 Contra: Shattehed Soldier , where there are only a few levels, but they are so complicated that they occupy you for two weeks. So and here: five swift chapters, where you are constantly killed by something.
However, even if you present steel nerves at the entrance, it is not a fact that Gundemonium will not get bored: the game holds an inhuman rhythm from beginning to end, and this, like any scrolling, is unpleasant. For some reason, no one takes into account the experience of the old Arcade Crossfire (Sega Genesis), which, after a couple of exhausting levels on the helicopter, gave you a rest and offered a mission for the infantryman. The game from Rockin ’Android is allegedly interspersed with episodes in isometry, but even there, from flashes, hesitates in the eyes.
Grade: 6.5
Landit Bandit
Genre: Arcade
Developer: The Bearded Ladies Consulting
Platform: PSN
Price: 445 rub.
If you carefully study the diaries of developers on Landit Bandit , You can see that its authors really want to be funny: they tease each other, they demonstrate especially “sharp” moments from the game under caustic comments and in general are the fool. But it is worth turning on some kind of interview, and a boring tired man will appear in front of you, who, without a shadow of emotions on his face, broadcasts about how they want to turn to the experience of old arcades for Commodore 64.
Landit Bandit herself surprisingly absorbed all these moods in herself: this is a pompous-humble game, the authors of which believe that the appearance of a man who flies on a cart with a propeller will make everyone, sorry, laugh without a break. At first, all this really amuses: the trolley collects bonuses, picks up on board the natives, springs from special platforms, grabs the hook by the cliffs and deftly sits through the rings-chicks. All this is under funny Hawaiian overflows.
But the entertainment techniques of the creators run out of about forty minutes, and there remains a rather boring aircraft carcade, which experiences the same difficulties as the neighboring Jett Rocket: instead of a bright set of obstacles, she offers to collect something, to capture someone and is generally very fussing. As a result, Landit Bandit feels the best on the 2D-Urses, which are not enough here to the offensive.
Grade: 5
Space Ark
Genre: Arcanoid
Developer: Strawdog Studios
Platform: XBLA
Price: 800 mp
Space Ark looks unbearably sweet and cheerful. Rainbings, flowers and large -eyed kittens will definitely like the smallest gamers, but their parents very soon begin to reduce the cheekbones from this sugary sweetness. However, even this does not prevent older players from sitting with a sticky tongue of sitting behind Space ARK and frantically hastily driven the packed -eyed cubs on the space – with all the concentration on the younger audience, this is primarily a very entertaining game.
Nominally before us are the arcanoid with the sweetest creatures of the earth in the role of balls. But the main goal here is not just to break all the blocks at the level, but to destroy them, almost without repulsing the “ball” with a racket, in several combo-ships. Arkanavti (those kittens, mice and other “musicals”) can be controlled by slightly changing the path of their flight, plus there are many surroundings at the stages, from which the “ball” bounces, so you can not use the platform below for a long time not to use the platform below.
Each new level begins with the fact that you are trying to estimate the most optimal route for the Arkanaut: at what angle it is better to run, where he should draw, where he needs to help a little. After starting, a natural nightmare of epileptic occurs: the game explodes with rainbow colors, and together with the compos and a multiplier of points, the level of the resulting fan is growing. Finally, you look at the astronomical figure in satisfaction opposite your name in the record table … and start the stage again – to break your own result.
The main problem of Space ARK is that it quickly gets up to the offensive. Strawdog Studios made many stages for their game, but they are desperately not enough diversity. However, if you urgently need to cheer up on a cloudy day, Space ARK definitely will have to come in handy-it is https://sister-site.org/kaiser-slots/ like a cheerfulness and solarity to not occupy it. And if you, in addition, every time you shake at the sight of small fluffy puppies ..
Grade: 7