So this week has been filled with playing a lot of Indie style games, as I finished Ratchet & Clank and am awaiting the arrival of Muramasa: The Demon Blade. So far the experience has been pretty enjoyable and the exploration combined with the delay of Muramasa, thanks Gamefly, has resulted in the subject of my next game review.
Death by Cube
I only played the trial for this one, and it is technically not an indie game at all, as it has the backing of Square Enix and all of its wondrous resources that your typical indie developer does not. However, it is an Xbox Live Arcade title and rings in at the total of $10 if my funny money to U.S. Dollars converter is functioning properly. As it was a demo, I did not spend to terribly much time with it, but I did manage to garner some insight into the game and how the rest of it may play out.
The game itself is a top down shooter with 3D assets. You play the role of a robot who has recently awoken to find that he has lost his memory and is setting out to restore them and awaken some girl robot and kill lots of cube shaped things that appear to spray gallons upon gallons of red “oil” with projectile like velocity when destroyed. The game itself feels good and responsive but be warned, it’s freaking hard, crazy hard. Either that, or I stink, it could even be some combination of the two I suppose.
Miner Dig Deep
This title is in fact indie, and has been on my list to play for a while now as it sits near the top of the highest rated games on the indie marketplace on Xbox Live. It clocks in at just 80 MS points, which I think is a dollar? I don’t really know. I’m not going to talk to much about this game as I intend to give it it’s own post containing in depth, lol, exploration of the game and it’s various constituent parts.
Rocketbird: Revolution!
I spent a little time browsing some of the IGF entries and checking out their various available assets. One that I hit on early was “Rocketbird: Revolution!” as it offered a playable demo.
“Take control of HardBoiled Chicken, the original Cock of War, and lead the rebellion against the draconian penguin oppressors to overthrow their hold on Albatropolis!”
Yeah, exactly. Plus the intro music and video is exceptional, as is the rest of the games sound, and worth watching right after you finish this paragraph. I didn’t fall in love with the controls really since it is a Flash title and uses keyboard input which I find frustrating for games of this style. While this may seem minor to most, it has at the least postponed my acquisition of the title.
Rocketbirds:Revolution! from Ratloop on Vimeo.
