If you've been wondering where I was the last few weeks: I inadvertently locked my Windows install into infinitely rebooting while battling a virus and have had very limited internet access (using others' PCs). I still haven't fixed anything / bought a new PC but I decided to slap together the releases this week because they are immensely useful to me personally and I missed having the nice list. Apologies if anything is innaccurate since I don't have all my usual resources for fact-checking and videogame release information is a FILTHY WEB OF LIES. Ahem.
What came out interesting that I missed the last few weeks? Not too much IIRC. Was Art Styles: light trax in that time period? Because that was awesome. I gifted it to some people. XBLA got a Risk game that is pretty cool, except for the "ranked" matches that have no matchmaking so nearly every supposedly FFA game is dominated by secret teams of partied friends. RB had Miley Cyrus and Nickelback. :S Mario Tennis hit VC. I love that game very much and remember riding my bike six miles round-trip to town to rent it one time when my parents weren't around. The Cube version was inferior because the super-moves wrecked the game and took forever (Street Fighter IV syndrome ;P) and had boring music, as opposed to the N64's Camelotastic tunes that make heavy use of the real Mario themes too. I guess the Cube version had those pretty cutscenes and great blooper reels. But for gameplay: long live Mario Tennis (N64)
So this week:
Crackdown 2: Crackdown was one of the finest games about jumping ever made. TEM, bobman, me (more?) will be multiplayering the heck out of this one.
Moonbase Alpha: Some kind of free game from NASA
The Silver Lining: Some kind of free unofficial King's Quest 9.
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge: Special Edition: The evilest and hardest of all Monkey Islands, hands down. Sometimes I wake up screaming in the night covered in the cold ice sweat of fear, woken from terrordreams of the hand sticking out of the wall "if this is three..." puzzle. I somehow passed that puzzle on my own, though I'm not sure if one could say I "solved" it. If you want to finish this game, you will eventually resort to walkthroughcheating. I guarantee it. I did too. When you were in diapers.
(Alternatively, if you're BP, you'll go to Jim's house to play it and he'll just tell you the answer to all the puzzles AM I RIGHT FOLKS!)
(Curse you Jim)
I love the campfire song at the beginning. I always liked to play it on piano.
The coolest part of this remake is the fact that it has a full commentary track by Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer, and Dave Grossman. Legends, man. Pure legends.
