Jono's game dev blog

Once again a bunch of games/movies/anime I either haven't completed or don't feel like writing a full review on. The Fast and The Furious 6 An action movie about fast cars and rich criminals trying to get back a friend that they thought had died by working with some government guy to prevent other criminals from obtaining certain technology, it's a very very dumb movie but it was fun to watch with friends. The Big Lebowski A comedy about an unemployed guy who calls himself "The Dude" and gets involved in a series of strange events because he shares his name with a rich guy. Very funny but the plot is inconsequential and the ending to each part feels kind of anticlimatic and ultimately pointless. Animal Crossing New Leaf Animal Crossing is a strange game, it's about playing a human who lives in a village full of animals, there's no real point to the game apart from paying off loans. Apart from that you can just play very freely and do activitie...

Another post for media that either has too little content for a full review, hasn't been completed, or I just don't feel like writing a whole article for. Lume Lume is a point and click puzzle game, all of the level is actually filmed which makes it look really nice and then the characters are added on top, the main aim of the game is to get into the house and to set up a windmill to restore power. It can be completed in under an hour if you know what you are doing, I ended up using a walkthrough because the puzzles felt so unorganised and it wasn't that great at telling you how to do things or what you needed to do next. The first puzzle was obviously the easiest but it requires you to clean up a whole rotating wire puzzle just to connect some wires together and the other puzzles require a similar tedious effort. It feels kind of empty when you complete the few puzzles there are because it says that it's only part 1 of Lume. I had high hopes for this game after ...

Been playing and watching a bunch of things but haven't had the time to finish them. Games: Deus Ex: Human Revolution: This is actually the kind of cyberpunk story driven game I've been looking for, it's a sci-fi game about the advancement of humans by merging themselves with technology and the possible side effects, reliance problems and the new class divide it could create. The graphics are great and it actually shows they had artistic aspirations and art direction, which is something I wish more games would do, unfortunately the performance isn't exactly the best. There's a lot of chatting to people and interesting decisions to make, even your combat actions and exploration effect what people say and think about you. One thing I really like is how much they make the game mechanics into something that's actually part of the game, upgrades that give you new abilities are augments and all of the HUD is due to your eye augmentation .

Haven't really finished any games lately apart from Castlevania so I'll just list a bunch that I've played recently. Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale This was actually a pretty cool game to come across after lamenting the lack of current generation JRPGs, I've only played through the demo so far but that gives you a considerable amount of content. The main premise of the game is to run a typical RPG shop selling all sorts of items like armour, weapons and food. How you get the items is up to you but I think the best way is dungeon runs as long as you don't die. Torchlight II The sequel to Torchlight which improves upon everything by giving you a much more open world, multiplayer mode, new classes, new weapons and a great difficulty system. I haven't managed to play this too much because the multiplayer kept dropping out on my but I did play the beta earlier in the year and that was good fun.