July 7, 2010

Ancients of Ooga Review

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Hello gaming lovers, from the creators of the acclaimed A Kingdom for Keflings and Kaloki Outpost X we have a new and entertainment game: Ancients of ooga, if not a sequel it is considered by many the spiritual successor of the Arcade Hit Cloning Clyde.



In this interesting title the tribe of the Ooganians has been tricked, enslaved and their leaders killed by an evil race known as Boolis, and is up to you their great spirit to help them free the enslaved ooganians and revive their leaders to regain their long lost freedom.

As the great spirit you can possess any ooganian you released from their slavery, there is a total of seven tribes, each tribe of the ooganians have different strengths needed to solve the puzzles you will encounter along 50 plus levels in the game, there’s a 2 player mode by using a second controller and a leaderboard but not a co-op mode via Xbox Live which is regretable.

The game give you a good dose of humor and the puzzles are are interesting to solve, i like how the game combines puzzle and platformer (i wish more developers could release more platformer games, we really need them) with 3D graphics that give the game a colorful and cheerful look.
and may be just me but i had a Donkey Kong Country Dejavu at first (believe me that was a good thing).

Colorful and cheerful graphics are delightful



The music if not spectacular is quite good with tribal tunes that will make the game enjoyable as some noises from ooganians and boolis can be a bit repetitive, definitely the music is one of the strong points in this title.

The game delivers a good and relaxing gameplay experience as many Ninjabee titles do (an example is A Kingdom for Keflings) something i enjoy in a game after a long day before i head to bed.

Not everything in Ancients of Ooga is as expected, you can die an infinite amount of times with the only a penalty in your score but that is not enough of an incentive to avoid a death as you advance in the game, turning it into a trial and error sometimes and this remove some challenge from the game, having a fixed number of lives and finding items to gain some more could be good.

Would be good to have a boss battle at the end of each level to add a bit of challenge and content to the gameplay experience, this could break some of the repetitive routine in the different levels, who know maybe a sequel can bring us this and more?

Nonetheless Ancients of Ooga from NinjaBee and J. Kenworthy Entertainment is a good title, i did enjoy the game and if you like the genre you should give it a try too, an Xbox Live title that will give you hours of fun.




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May 9, 2010

Wallace & Gromit – Fright of the Bumblebees (XBLA Demo review)

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Wallace and Grommit has been delighting us for a time with their funny and entertainment movies along the years and now is their turn to do it on the Xbox 360, will they succeed? this is a review of the Demo “Wallace and Gromit – Fright of the Bumblebees”, the first in a 4 chapter adventure Telltale Games brings to Xbox Live Arcade.





At first you have to go throught a tutorial to learn how you will interact with the world of Wallace and Gromit, it is a shame you cannot skip the tutorial as you may want to start having fun with the game instead of losing time with a (let’s face it) boring tutorial specially as a grown up, then again remember the game is mainly for a younger audience and this may have been a boo boo by the developers.


The game is a sort of point and click genre (something i’d like to see more, like in zack and wiki for example) and is a good change from the huge amount of FPS’s out there, you dont play as Wallace or Gromit but as a 3rd person interacting with them, guiding our friends in the right direction to make the game events and story advance, is like watching an interactive movie and this it’s fun for fans and kids alike.


Will gromit save Wallace? oh the suspense! D:




The game have some flaws, camera angles are one of them.. sometimes moving Wallace in a wrong direction may make us return or go to a different area when we want do something else in the place we are at, if minor, it can be annoying from time to time.


another downside is you cant die, literally you cant die..! if you are not sure of the next action or object needed to continue with the game turn into a trial and error chore, as the game is aimed for a younger audience this may not be as bad as it sounds but in my opinion take out the challenge factor from the game, something even kids will feel dissapointed (as a kid wasnt you proud to beat a level that made you sweat bullets for days?)


some people may find some pixelated details here and there and is not something you can let slip easy with the current generation of consoles but taking in mind it is an Arcade title developers may not have taken proper care or time into that but is nothing to make you have a bad experience in-game.


Overall, “Wallace and Gromit – Fright of the Bumblebees” is a funny and entertainment game for kids (or parents wanting to share time with their kids) and die hard fans of the movies and i will recommend it only if you are one these two cases, if you are a hardcore gamer searching for a challenge the game definitely it’s NOT for you, thanks for reading and keep gaming!




~Mario
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