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dotstream

Let’s try a new format:

/played
Psychonauts (ps2)
After hearing the 1UP crew pick this classic up again and finding out it’s by the creator of Day of the Tentacle, I had to get my hands on it. It’s actually quite funny, something lacking in games 99% of the time. The character and level design is really screwed up and the voice acting, my god the voice acting is perfect. Dott perfect ^^

dotstream (gba)
The good ol’ forgotten GBA… bit Generations, a new GBA series, aimed at a specific collecting/designer/retro crowd, consists of 7 games, $20 a piece. E3 (or was it something else) showed us some screenshots last year, with the launch of the Micro, but went unnoticed until now. The first 3 games are out now in Japan. dotstream is a line racer, tron style, very stylish, backed up by an electronic soundtrack, with very simplistic retro graphics but a very interesting gameplay. Much harder than it looks. A must for the crowd mentioned above. Check the site here.

boundish (gba)
Another game of the bit Generations series, this pong clone allows you to connect two GBAs and battle eachother in some original game modes. At $20 it’s a tad expensive, but if the price ever goes down, buy it coz this simple game can give you hours of multiplayer fun. More here.

LocoRoco (psp)
More of the same. Still loving it. Work has banned the PSP from the office, so I’ll be forced to play it outside in the sunshine instead of our sad little offices during lunch breaks. I might learn to love the game even more ^^

Animal Crossing DS (ds)
Online at its best! Invite me to create you a cool town tune ^^.

Prey Demo (360)
Finished this with Kurt yesterday, can’t really say it’s bad but I can’t make myself spend that much money on it.

Shadow of the Colossus (ps2)
Finally finished this game. It’s THE game of the .. years? Beautiful, impressive, sad,… it brings up all emotions possible. Playing it to the end was really rewarding. ‘A religious experience…’ as someone once put it.

Top Spin 2 Demo (360)
Who the %#$@% downloaded this demo to my 360? Tennis is bad, but this game is worse than the real thing.

Siren (ps2)
Thank god Wim was playing, coz I nearly crapped my ;). Who makes these fucked up games?! … Although I love ‘m, when I’m not playing them ^^

/listened to
Freezepop
…more podcasts

/irl
Inline skating

Now, a wonderful week off… time to skate and game till I drop.

3 Comments

  1. Karsten said:

    I only played a bit of guitar hero last week…
    Oh, and of course Wii Tennis, Wii Baseball, Wii Golf, WarioWare Smooth Moves, Orchestra and Shooting :p
    And let’s not forget the DS-games Yoshi’s Island 2, Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Elite Beat Agents and StarFox Command :p
    But that’s about it… ;)

    And I saw somebody from Activision play Call of Duty 3. That guy’s job was ‘Game Demo Specialist’. Isn’t that something for you sicu? ;)

    I should find some time to start writing reviews of NSMB, Rise & Fall, Micro Machines 4 and Prey (which I received today, together with a nice booklet full of artwork), before these games are called retro games, but it’s just too hot!

    And umm, inline skating, that’s so nineties. Ten years ago I thought we would all be riding those hovering skate boards from Back to the Future by now…

  2. sicu said:

    still guitar hero? u’re sick ;)

    Yeh looking forward to those Wii games. Although I’m afraid i’ll have to have visitors to enjoy them (as Eyetoy and any other party game).

    No nothing for me, since i hate the CoD series ;) and if it ain’t development i don’t wanna do it ;) (i have some pride lol)

    i can help u in those reviews: NSMB:: nice but boring after world 1, Rise & Fall:: RTS so who wants to play those ;), Micro Machines:: was looking forward to it but Edge says it’s broken, pitty, Prey:: much ado about nothing or something like that ;)

    hey hey, inline skating is back mister! :D 100s of folks join the rollerparade all over belgium each week ;) it’s the new THANG :P

  3. Karsten said:

    Hey, i noticed you bought that nice LocoRoco bag! cool!
    I won a locoroco t-shirt for my girl a few weeks ago. this one:
    http://wearoftherodent.com/eu/products/detail/?id=747
    it’s sexy! ;)