Papo & Yo Review

      Hearing that Papo & Yo was about some guy's relationship with his abusive Dad piqued my interest quite a bit because that's not the kind of thing that is typically the focus of a game. Watching a quick video of one of the game's surreal environment manipulation puzzles sealed the deal for me; I was in without needing to see or hear anything else.

       Papo & Yo is about a boy named Quico who during a moment of fear and crisis finds himself transported to a strange world. It's a 3d 3^rd person puzzle-action game. You move through different areas solving puzzles to continue on.

       Typically, these puzzles involve manipulating the environment and the npc's to get to where you need to go. The world Quico enters is one of those south-american towns that is made out of little square house all stacked around each other. Like the one that Will Smith drives a hummer through in Bad Boys II. Pretty sure that's the movie where that happens. To Quico, these small square houses are literally building blocks. Through the use of magical chalk drawings on the walls and floors of these areas, houses can be re-arranged and manipulated. For example, there might be a lever drawn on a wall that when pulled moves a whole building or group of buildings around. Or there could be a set of gears drawn onto a wall, and when you connect the gears, a building might rotate or platforms might emerge from the ground. That's the tip of the iceberg of what you can do The game is not especially long, so I don't want to be too specific about the puzzles, but I'll give you a glimpse of one that can be seen in videos about the game. There is a part where you come to a large river you need to cross. There are some cardboard houses lying around that were obviously made by children. If you pick one up, a whole house gets plucked up into the air and starts moving along with the cardboard box house. I'll leave the rest to your imagination... These puzzles are great fun to go through. Some of them are as simple as what I just described, but they also scale up to some pretty epic and mind-boggling manipulations. If you're like me, you'll just stare at the screen in wonder at some of things you end up doing during these puzzles.They are typically pretty simple to complete, and there are often pictographic clues nearby inside of cardboard boxes that you can put on your head. But they are not so simple that they aren't fun to figure out. I'm going to compare this game to Ico a bit, so using that metric, the puzzles are a step or two less complex than Ico's puzzles, but comparable.

       The other type of puzzle you'll encounter involves Monster, your giant companion throughout the majority of the game. You need monster to activate some giant switches by standing on them. Getting him to do what you want typically involves motivating him with food. You can also get him to go to sleep and then bounce on his belly to get to high ledges. Sometimes you need to transport him using strange chalk-magic constructs. But be warned, if monster eats a frog, he flies into a rage, and will attack and maul you.

       The game controls pretty basically. The left stick moves Quico, who runs around at a fast pace. The right stick moves the camera. Square is used to interact with chalk constructs. You can pick up and throw items, such as fruit to lure Monster, with O. X is jump. In some areas, you are accompanied by a robotic friend named Lula, who can hold onto your back and let you hover for a second if you hold down X when jumping, and who can press far away switches for you if you aim at one and press triangle.

       The visuals are very good. The character design is great, and the environments are surreal and imaginative. Wherever the world gets distorted by your manipulations, a strange white substance is revealed, like a layer of reality that lays just underneath everything we see. There is also a lot of really great graffiti made by real artists in the game that adds tremendously to the mood.                            Unfortunately there are a lot of graphical and gameplay glitches. There is a bunch of screen tearing (at least I think that's what it's called), weird camera movements, and some frame rate problems. There are also problems while playing, such as Quico getting stuck in the jump animation or getting trapped on some geometry. One time I even had to reset because the camera suddenly zoomed out like a mile away from Quico and wouldn't switch back. These glitches are actually all really forgivable because of how much fun the game is and how riveting the story and theme is. Also, not really a glitch, but mouths don't move when people talk, which is a bit of distracting problem, but you get used to it.

       The music is really great traditional south-american tunes, mostly very upbeat. All of it is pretty good and really meshes well with the sense of discovery and figuring things out that the gameplay evokes. Some sequences even have sound effects when you do stuff that fit in perfectly with the music, which gives those parts a great feel. There are a couple of really stand out pieces, especially the song during the game's powerful final sequence. The game's dialogue and lyrics are in spanish, with word balloons providing translation to English for most of the dialogue. You're on your own with the lyrics in the song or two that has them and a few of the shorter lines of dialogue.

       Papo & Yo's story is an emotional and intense one. From what I hear, it is semi-autobiographical for the main game designer, and it really goes into some big problems. It has some really shocking, disturbing moments. However the story is balanced out nicely by it's tender moments and its overall whimsical feel. Still, there are a few times when I really felt some strong feels as I stared at the screen in shock. It's moving and meaningful, really great stuff. Obviously one of the main themes is the father-son relationship, but childhood in general also seems to be a big theme, and there are a few others I won't spoil, including the one disturbing theme that hit me the hardest... These themes are not only a part of the cutscenes and audio/visual experience, but are also tied tightly into the gameplay and interactive elements of the game. Which segues me right into my comparison to another game that does the same thing....

        I said I was going to compare the game to Ico. They are quite similar in length, puzzle design, and even in the fact that you often have an AI character to interact with and move around with you. Actually, it feels more like The Last Guardian since you are with a giant monster instead of a person. Also the game's ending sequence, meaning the last hour or two, reminds me of Ico's a lot as well as it is very focused, intense, story-driven while still being almost completely interactive, and near perfect. Much like Ico, that last 90 minutes or so is intensely riveting; there's no way I was getting up from my seat until it was finished (or there was some emergency or something. Or if my mom called for me). The game is like Ico in the best way possible. It captures some of that same feel, both in its gameplay and story/ theme. That's one of the strongest compliments I can give a game, as Ico is probably my favorite game. Also, you play as Quico. Get it.... quICO.

       After you beat the game, there are a few odd trophies to collect. One of them is kind of dumb. It wants you to beat the game without using the cardboard hint boxes. This is done easily enough on your second playthrough, or even your first, but the hint boxes have great pictograms in them and also tie-in with the theme and story really well, so it's weird to encourage people not to use them. One of the other main trophies tasks you with getting all the collectibles in the game, which are wearable hats that you find. You can only collect these hats on your second playthrough, although you can see where they will be on your first playthrough. There are dolls hidden all over, and in the 2^nd playthrough and later, the dolls will be wearing the hats. It's a cool way to do collectibles, as you are wondering what the dolls are for in your 1^st playthrough, and then you have fun scouring every nook and cranny trying to find them during your 2^nd playthrough.

       Papo & Yo is not as good as Ico, but it's comparable in all the right ways. That means it's a really great game that succeeds in theme and story on a whole nother level when compared to what usually gets made. It's flaws barely matter in the face of how meaningful it is. I think it's going to strike quite a personal cord with most people that play it. It doesn't hurt that it's beautiful, well-designed, and fun to play, either. It's a great game, tier 2.

Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams Review

            From what I understand, the original Giana Sisters game, The Great Giana Sisters, was a Mario clone back in the day. If you look at screenshots, it looks like it uses assets from Mario, or has at least copied some of them almost exactly. In more modern times, there was a DS sequel, and also this Kickstarted entry in the series, Twisted Dreams.

            Twisted Dreams is a 2d platformer with a polarity shifting mechanic reminiscent of Ikaruga and Outland. You travel through it's lengthy levels facing various enemies and obstacles, shifting between two dimensions to manipulate enemies and the environment as you go.

            The left stick and d-pad move Giana. X is Jump, and R2 changes you polarity. Or rather, it changes your form. You can be either Punk Giana or Cute Giana. Each of these forms has a movement power associated with it. Pressing square makes Giana do a fire dash. This move is associated with Punk Giana, so if you are in Cute form, you will instantly transform as you do this move. It can be used to reach high places, kill enemies, and also to bounce around the environment, sometimes at high speeds a la Sonic. Pressing triangle makes Giana leap into the air and spin rapidly, slowing her descent. If you are in Punk form, you will instantly transform to Cute mode when you do this move. Interestingly, you can transform freely while you are using this twirl move. Killing an enemy, either by jumping on their head or smashing into them with a fire dash, allows you to do another move without touching the ground, allowing you to combo-kill enemies and leading to some interesting movement puzzles where you must dash between enemies to reach certain areas. Besides the preference for one of the two moves, Giana's two forms are identical, and like I said, either form can do either move at anytime, it's just that you will instantly transform if you aren't already in the form associated with the maneuver.

             Giana Sisters takes these simple mechanics and uses them and some environment manipulation puzzles and creates a lot of large and varied levels for you to run through. In my opinion, it's a pretty hardcore platformer. It's very hard, but not very punishing. There are many checkpoints throughout the levels, and you have unlimited lives, but many levels have really difficult sections that demand perfection to get through. For example, some levels have difficult jumping sections occupied by 2 types of ghosts that chase Giana when she is in one of her forms. You have to rapidly change forms as needed to keep the two groups of ghosts at bay all while doing pretty difficult manuervers to get through the area. Other areas feature moving platforms that change direction whenever Giana switches forms, and manipulating their direction is key to surviving. Other levels feature enemies that do drastically different things depending on which form Giana is in. There are platforms that you can only stand on when you are in one form or the other. There is swimming, moving walls of fire, and herds of enemies that move in circular patterns. There are very difficult boss battles. And spikes. There are lots of spikes everywhere. Giana can only take 1 hit, unless she has a shield power-up, so you will be dying a lot. On the hardest levels, I died close to 40 times. Fortunately this game is the very fun kind of hard, just shy of frustrating. It's addictive to keep trying the hard segments over and over until you finally get them.

            The entire visual and musical landscape also shifts drastically whenever you transform Giana. First off, there is Cute Giana world. Giana is just a normal looking girl here. The music is kind of classical, though occasionally hard-driving classical. The enemies are demons, and everything is scary and Halloween themed. There are bones, torture devices, and mushrooms all over the highly detailed backgrounds. Switch to Punk Giana, and the soundtrack instantly switches to soaring electric guitar solos playing the same melody as the cute songs. The backgrounds and enemies all instantly change: demons become cute little owls, skeletons become trees, horrible dungeons are suddenly furnished with high quality furniture. A million little details all change in a split second with some great transformation animation to boot. You can change back and forth as much as you like, and the environment and music will shift right along with you. And because the graphics are really, really good, this effect is pretty stunning. You have to see it for yourself. Both versions of the world are full of an amazing amount of detail, and the way everything instantly moves and shifts to the other version is a sight to see. And the music... it reminds me of The Trans-Siberian Orchestra: happy little classical music that can shift at any instant to soaring, driving, epic guitar solos. The music will be in your head forever. It's also great to play a cutesy platformer with the guitars going full blast. Really near perfect audio-visual presentation that does something no other game I know of has done.

            The boss enemy design deserves a special shout-out too. The first boss is really disturbing. The second will give you nightmares if you are scared of Cthulu or ever wonder about what's down in the deep dark ocean. The final boss has an amazing texture on his skin. Gameplay-wise, each of these fights is fun and unique and extremely challenging.

            The weird parts of Giana Sisters for me are its alternate modes. They are STUPIDLY hard in my opinion to the point that they are un-playable to all but the most hardcore people that want to spend several dozen hours memorizing every nook and cranny of its massive levels. For example, you can unlock hardcore mode, which takes away the level checkpoints. This is kind of laughable, because as I said, some levels took me almost 40 lives to complete. There is instant death around every corner. Re-playing the entire level 40 times to get to the hard part and die again does not sound like fun at all to me. And then you can unlock Uber Hardcore mode, which is perma-death mode. This mode might literally be impossible. If it is possible, it would take maybe hundreds of hours to prepare for and beat. There is also Time Attack mode and Score Attack mode – both of which require near perfection to get through in the target time and score goals. None of these are appealing to me at all since the game is extremely hard, and if you beat it, you are a really good platformer player in my opinion. There's no need to ruin your life by playing this game obsessively for months to play these other modes. Then again, if you are a really, really hardcore game player looking for a title that offers some truly remarkable challenges, this game is definitely for you. But for you normal people out there, that means there isn't much to do after beating the main game.

            Giana Sisters Twisted Dreams is an expertly designed platformer that innovates on the polarity mechanic seen in Ikaruga and Outland in some great ways, both in its extremely challenging gameplay and its one-of-a-kind dueling audio-visual presentation styles. It's a joy to play. It feels great. It looks stunning, and it sounds like a dream. It flirts with a perfect score. It's a great game, tier 2.

  

         

Hysteria Project Review

       Hysteria Project truly is a mini. There is about ½ hour of content, and that is it. The game costs $3, so that ½ hour would have to be really, really great to justify buying it. Unfortunately, despite some cool ideas, there's not enough there.

       The game is pretty basic. You see a short video segment (and I mean real video with actors) and then you must make a decision about what the character you are controlling will do. You have two choices. If you choose the wrong one, you die. If you choose the right one, you may need to follow some onscreen prompts to press buttons as they flash on the screen. If you press the wrong button or don't press the buttons fast enough, you die. Dying sets you back to the last checkpoint.

       You wake up in a room and have to try to escape and then make your way through the woods while being pursued by a relentless axe-wielding figure. That's the gist of the story. There are a few interesting wrinkles to it. There are about 3 pretty interesting developments that happen while you are playing.

       The video quality is really bad. I imagine it looks a little better on the smaller screen of the PSP, but I was playing on my PS3, and it was pretty grainy. However, in a horror game like this, that's not the worst thing. It looks a bit like a found-footage movie, which isn't a bad look. Although if it was a few shades sharper and in HD, it would still look like found footage and be a little more palatable.

The presentation does have some good qualities to it. It is shot from a first-person perspective, and it pulls that off very well. You often see “your” arms touching branches while going through the woods and the perspective looks great when you are performing tasks. There is also a neat effect where you blink from time to time that works really well. On the other had, the action is frequently broken up by checkpoints, which save your game on a seperate screen, and the decision screens, which take you to a separate screen away from the images of the video. Both of these elements break up the flow and should have been super-imposed on the screen while the video was still rolling. It's strange that they aren't since the quick-time events are super-imposed on the moving video, so the developers obviously know how to do it. Then again, if the video rolled straight through without the screens popping up to break up the action, the game would only be 20 minutes long...
       I also think the game would be better with some gore, since it supposed to be a horror game and you die a lot. Not every horror game needs gore, but this guy pops out and chops you with an axe from time to time and the screen just turns red and you die. Some low-budget gore would be really cool and appropriate, methinks.

       The music is pretty good. It's quite dark and dread-inspiring.

       This game was obviously made by a few people in the woods on a very small budget. In order to be a better game, it would need more content, more mechanics, better video quality, and a presentation tune-up. A few of its narrative ideas are interesting. The “epilogue” of sorts that you can access after the game ends is dumb and threatens to ruin the mood of the game. A few days after playing it, I realized I barely remembered it existed, which is a bad sign. I wanted to like the game a lot, but it's a Bad Game, Tier 1.

PS3 Bucket List: Now with PS2 and Gamecube games!

       I just completed my PS2 bucket list, and rather than put those games in a separate list, I decided to just integrate them with my PS3 list and to throw the Gamecube games in there too. I will play all of them on a big tv, so there all the same in away. Actually, this whole exercise with the PS2 and Gamecube games is pretty inconsequential since most of them are in the yellow or red category. Anyway, here's the updated list!

Key:
Green - Must Play
Yellow - Maybe Play
Red - Probably Won't Play
Blue - I'll only play this if I find Multiplayer people to play with

Non – Games

Flow

flower

Proteus – explorer non game

noby noby boy

minecraft

Hohokum

Journey

linger in shadows

Undergarden

doki doki universe Retro Genesis Collection  Namco Museum 1 – Rally X, Bosconian, toy pop NM 2 – mappy, dragon buster NM 3 – Tower of Druaga, Phozon NM 4 – pac-land, assault, ordyne, return of ishtar, genji,  NM 5 – pac-mania, dragon spirit, metro cross, baraduke, legend of the valkyrie Tower Defense Sanctum 2  castle storm  vector td field runners comet crash  Pixel Junk Monsters core blaster  Defense Technica  Arkanoid/ Breakout Clones BreakQuest 2 magic orbz Horror hysteria project 1 and 2 Slender  Dead Space extraction  Siren: blood curse  Dead Space – 1 &2 Open World simpsons PS3 powerpuff girls relish rampage – open world, looks great, GC version is better Bionic Commando – if no other cool open world swinging games  Prototype 2 2d ship shooter sine mora  Luftrausers – 2d plane fighting, looks awesome astro tripper whos that flying -2d ship shooter flying hamster – 2d ship shooter red star – shooter and beat em up Titan Attacks – space invaders, but looks fun – short though pixel junk sidescroller pixel junk shooter 1 and 2 jetpack joyride – more like a shooter Einhander – if I can get it cheap G Darius – 2d shooter that looks AMAZING Thunder force V – cool but basic shooter Gradius V – looks great Silpheed – amazing looking shooter with chatter!! soldner x2 final prototype  if I liked the first Microbot – twin stick with traveling in human body beat hazard – twin stick – uses your music to generate level Ray storm and Ray crisis  Chaos field – cool shmup – looks goo galaga legions DX – more like a twin stick ion assault – twin stick, doesn't look too good sky fighter – 2d dogfighting like rocketbirds parts mini squadron – rocketbirds like 2d Platformer rocket birds Rogue Legacy – looks amazing 2d adventures octopus Guacamelee Thexder neo – 2d transforming robot – cool crescent pale mist – cool 2d sidescroller Klonoa – 2d platformer – sequel on ps2 if I liked it ghosts and goblins – the old arcade one, looks awesome black knight sword – bloody platformer Wolf fang – 2d mech game, PS1, sprites, fast paced, LOOKS AMAZING! cloudberry kingdom – hardcore platformer kung fu rabbit – cool platformer gunstar heroes  rocket knight magician lord – Altered Beast like old game Explodemon – MegaMan like guy who explodes pix'n love rush – platformer with retro skins hard corps – contra like heart of darkness – awesome cinematic platformer Scarygirl – the mini looks ok, 2d platformer – ps3 version doesn't look great spelunker hd sound shapes – musical platformer – on-disc version with Fat Princess and others giana sisters – 2d plat mr. driller – fast paced ps1 dig dug super motherload – drilling down 2d Lode Runner – old school puzzle platformer, looks cool  Silhouette Mirage! skull monkeys – cool claymation platformer Megaman X5 Pixel Junk Eden – look for bundle young thor Megaman 9 and 10 terrover panda craze Tomba – use a walkthrough alien spidy – hard speed runney platformer mutant mudds – 2d platformer Ninjamurai – runner + shinobi tales from space: about a blob – short 2d platformer rushn attack – stealth 2d platformer pow EWJ2 – if I can get it cheap fancy pants – 2d platformer Alien Hominid – metal slug like bonk's adventure – old platformer cave man duck tales – platformer castle of illusion – mickey platformer dust force – hard platformer – looks ok derrick deathfin like ecco but a race – looks ok moon diver – strider like Weird Minis idiot squad – sheep follow tiles you lay wackylands boss alien havoc coconut dodge duael invaders – 2 invaders at once, control both floating cloud god Kaleidescope – trippy mini games Hungry Giraffe – like coconut dodge – cool blimp age of hammer wars arcade essentials – to try q bert clone Evolution has asteroids, frogger, and cave gravity flyer paper wars – tank in a corner run ghost run – clone of shooting bubble split games me monstar – monster fighting running around – cool graphics beam em up Speedball – future sports – looks not great normal tanks aero racer Love Cupid – shoot and catch hearts Puzzle platformer the swapper – cool game, make clones abe's exoddus – abe box? widget's odyssey 1 and 2 – platformer with cutscenes Fez archibald's adventures – cool puzzle platformer Edge – block roller – really cool – puzzle platformer brothers Portal munch's odyssey Thomas was alone – dlc if I like it do not fall – puzzle platformer – fast stealth inc – puzzle plat Magrunner – portal clone w/cthulu themes Vessel – cool puzzle plat – lead creatures around with cool ai Quantum conundrum 2 dlc packs Constant C – gravity and time manipulator Kahoots – puzzle platformer? A-men 1-2 military puzzle platformer Pid – cool puzzle plat revoltin youth puzzle platformer 2/ great soundtrack sideway ny – puzzle platformer Rain – stealth/puzzle Warp – puzzle teleporting – not super great Pallurikio – weird puzzle platformer Swarm – play as tons of blue guys who die, platformer Lemmings – looks ok Snowy – puzzle platformer Valiant Hearts – not that great looking Master Reboot - 1st person puzzle explorer Funky lab rat stick it to the man – puzzle platformer – not great ethan meteor hunter puzzle plat with tele like funky lab rat Strategy Battle Hunter – very cool , very different tactical rpg mecho wars akimi village- non violent rts – short first queen iv – rpg/rts – in japanese, but looks cool battle of tiles – strategy – no info – awesome stormrise supposed to be bad, but looks cool x com enemy unknown within gene mods screen is salacious planets under attack – galcon labsish Eufloria – like galcon Front Mission 4 Goblin Commander Ring of Red – looks great!  rock of ages – roll rock down a mountain carnage heart – if I like psp version Syndicate Wars – like the small force missions in starcraft – looks ok star hammer tactics – SRPG – maybe greed corp – maybe, primarily multiplayer history egypt – or romance? Supermarket mania – maybe best of these time casual games hello flowerz real time gardening sim romance iv under siege – RTS  Ruse – WWII RTS – cool zoomable map Odama Point and click Secret of Monkey island 1 and 2 (no tales of)  strong bad Machinarium – adventure game another world – cool rotoscoped old game myst Testament of Sherlock Holmes – looks decent Action/adventure Wolverine – looks amazing okabu blood omen – just this one, rest of series is salacious, unfortunately Gungriffon blaze – fast, awesome 1st person mech fighting fly fu pacman dx – fun pac man variant eat them – 3d kaiju destruction – cool Shinobi – ps2 psychonauts demon's souls Entwined – play as 2 things at once flying down tunnel Couterspy – stealth, procedural, perspective shifting lost planet – no #2, 1 and 3 ok Majin – lead a giant around action – bad voice acting pretty naughty bear – teddy bear manhunt – looks cool fairytail fights – cute/ bloody beatemup – cool de blob 2 – color city, looks very cool Medievil Stardrone – pinball like game – control spaceship indirectly Katamari forever – looks good The Last Guy – weird maze in city game magic carpet pac man ghostly adventures – bad 3d plat which looks fun –  Pac man world 25th Floating Runner – very cool big 3d game Grid Runner – cool capture the flag game Machine Hunter – yes! MDK – play it again! Then play MDK 2 on ps2 Qbert – seems cool Crusader no remorse – cool isometric action game Legend of Korra – platinum game I can play! Onimusha – warlords, 2, and 3 are good, others get salacious Scaler – jak 1 like game, kinda dumb, but maybe a nice alternative to salacious jak and ratchett Whiplash – looks awesome Mini Ninjas – looks fun future cop orc attack – 3d brawler – not good – some cool boss designs Lair – has patch for normal controls Lego Hobbit dead nation age of zombies castle crashers retro cave flyer – like velocity mini game Gravity crash – also like velocity mini game gatling gears – play greed corp first Ico and Shadow HD* Neutopia – zelda clone from back in the day alien crush – old pinball rotastic- weird grappling hook game mystic heroes dynasty warriors esque ps2 game captain america – decent action game DW gundam 3 – crazy long DW stuff  Thor – beat-em up looks cool Firemen 2 – sprite based japan firefighting – looks kinda boring Cursed Crusade – bad looking 3d action Assault rigs – looks cool – drive tanks around quickly, weird graphics and music  Irritating Stick – super hard game of maze moving Nanotek Warrior – very cool shooter on circular tubes Steel Reign – tank game with directional shield mechanic. Sounds fun Blood will tell - this is the body part game – looks ok Virtual on Marz – looks ok. Fast but annoying voices SLAI – like virtual on but with Superchick Graffiti kingdom – draw 3d creatures looks fun Second Sight – cool psychic game Sky Gunner – steampunk anime dogfighting, looks cool Sphinx – action platformer – actually looks quite good Sub Rebellion – sub game – above and below water, looks ok il sturmovik -ww2 flight, nothing special Blazing angels – ww2 flight Hawx – looks ok, has cool 3rd person mode TMNT out of shadows – looks ok sky dive – squirrell suit simulator – no replay value Chibi Robo – looks ok Dog's Life – looks ok Ecco the Dolphin looks ok EOE – looks ok Bujangi – very flashy sword action game, looks cool Nano breaker – cool special effect brawler Driving Fuel – post apocalyptic open world racing Driver San Francisco – teleporting split second – over the top racing game, fast and cool Jet Car Stunts – fast cool flying cars Wipeout and XL full auto – combat racing  Wreckless – mission based driving with cool cars – Simpsons hit and run – open world driving –  Simpsons road rage – crazy taxi clone – looks not great FPS Bioshock Infinite carnivores dinosaur hunter hd - + an ice age mini version sequel alien rage – fps with combos and score – looks cool Jumping Flash – maybe Descent – on disc call of duty – no black ops 2 – try modern warfare Brahma Force – cool fps w/ mech and exploring Hexen – fp stabber – looks cool King's Field – 1 and 2 Fpslashers – dark souls roots, looks cool.  Turok – cool fps Robotech invasion – transforming motorcycles! Half-life – 2 is no good, this one is Bioshock Protector trials and challenge rooms Wolfenstein – not new order, just wolfenstein – looks cool jurassic: the hunted – dinosaur fps, looks ok Singularity time travel fps – looks decent Unreal – tourney 3 has single player that is bot matches w/story operation flashpoint red river – methodical fps – red river? Sniper Elite – v2 – same but wwii – better but wwii Condemned 2 – ok 1st person brawler Resistance- 3 sci fi fps's Timeshift – bad fps with time powers Medal of honor warfighter – fps 3-4 hrs – looks ok Cabellas newest – like sniper elite but with animals Painkiller sniper ghost warrior – 2 might be ok if desperate  Brink - 1st person – best for multiplayer – not good single player Metroid Prime Black Urban Chaos – halfway decent fps Puzzle Vempire – puzzle game voodoo dice – puzzle dice moving Digitiles – hard math game auditorium HD enigmo like puzzle game with cool music  mad blocker alpha – tetris like with great art Storm – nature puzzler aqua panic puzzle game I don't understand  cubixx HD – not the mini Deflector – enigmo vibe Intelligent Qube – great – expensive Bombastic – like voodoo dice, but with story mode  Droplitz – puzzle game critter crunch puzzle game Lup Salad – block pushing puzzler angry birds  germinator/ ms germinator – like bust a move in reverse super stacker – puzzle stacking 3d twist and match – spin 3d objects – puzzle chime super deluxe – musical puzzle game Influence – hard puzzle game Mr. Domino – very weird cool puzzle game Circles – puzzle math Fantavision – fast paced puzzle Runner impossible game – runner one epic game – runner with shooting feisty feet – runner – racing Race the Sun – procedural racing  I must run – canabalt with endings 3rd Person Shooter the club - 3rd person shooter – run through going fast – looks cool transformers war for  and fall of cybertron Wanted – looks cool, gungrave in slo mo dark void DLC survivor missions Stranglehold – like gungrave Ghostbusters – disc game - 3rd person – looks cool g force - 3rd person shooter/ platformer – looks decent – bad story Fracture - 3rd person – you can lower and raise ground  the bureau – cover shooter Deep Black – underwater sections look cool, rest looks bad splinter cell – try blacklist maybe? ghost recon future soldier – near future 3rd person Metal arms – looks like faster version of ratchett Fighting Cyberbots – 2d fighter w/robots Kareteka – different fighting Samurai Shodown – first one looks good, ps3 version  World Heroes – SF2 knock off, looks ok RPG Child of Light – flying, rhyming herc's adventures – top down ps1 action rpg  3d dot heroes labyrinth legends – dungeon crawler Adventure time – boring dugneon hack and slash Okage – rpg – basic but interesting battle system dungeon explorer – old action rpg Threads of Fate – looks ok, action rpg Alundra Rhythm Vib Ribbon multiplayer  awesomenauts sportsfriends Ibb and Obb Plants vs zombies garden warfare