Owner of the finest pink suit in all gamedom, Miles Edgeworth has developed a cult following as the “hold it!” to Phoenix Wright’s “objection!”. Ace Attorney Investigations turns the tables, letting us see how the other half – the prosecution – live.
In a radical move for the series, courtroom tussles are gone, but any fervent Wright-head can spot the constituent parts.
Adventure Time's first game is finally here, and though it has some flaws, it's definitely a worthwhile adventure for fans of the show...
Tintin is a Belgian boy who somehow manages to be a journalist without ever writing a word, who knocks out grown men twice his size with a single fling of his fist, and who lives in a world where the only woman is a jolly opera singer who exists only to make us laugh. In short, his life plays out like a little boy's dream – or at least the type of boy who juggles ambitions of winning the science fair with fantasies of clobbering the local bully. The good news is that it's not a disagreeable dream, and while it suffers from excessively easy gameplay and forced variety, The Adventures of Tintin is a bit more rewarding than its movie franchise origins might suggest...
How would you go about making a classic ‘whodunnit’ mystery novel even better? If your answer is “By turning it into a videogame where your time is divided between furiously tapping the touchscreen to keep the dialogue moving, answering sub-Layton calibre logic puzzles (usually about train times – Poirot gives this kind of thing too much thought) and desperately fighting against an overly-fussy handwriting recognition system,” you answered… incorrectly!
Learning about ancient myths and religions was one of our favorite times in high school and college. It was like being taught history, except it’s full of minotaurs, fertility gods, and people with cat heads. When the more sterile, history-based series Age of Empires sired a spin-off titled Mythologies, we were all aboard.
For some of us,
mapping our way through lonely 2D corridors and slowly accumulating the
firepower to put a hole in the moon is the cream cheese to our bagel. It’s a
decades-old obsession begun by Metroid and later championed by Castlevania;
lately jettisoned to handheld consoles like the GameBoy Advance and Nintendo
DS. Without getting too deep into it...
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