Brawl in the Family is an awesome video game comic where Smash Bros. character run amok and hilarity ensues....

Today they had a very special episode.. with a song!



I dare you to watch this video and not shed a tears for all those minions you killed... YOU MONSTER!

A while ago a posted an insane Mega Man video, but it wasn't finished so the artist took it down a while later, but... it's BAAAAACK!

There are only two ways you might respond to this video... horror or hilarity....

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

Yeah, I know I post this on Monday, but I started Mirror's Edge and thought I might as well finish it before making this post....


Last week was weird because I played THREE new games in a row! What are the chances of that? For me? Unlikely! I always buy my games when they go on sale or if they are simply dirt cheap on their release date!



My first game was Brutal Legend... Frankly I don't know why so many people where upset about the RTS thing, I wasn't paying that much attention so I wouldn't be overhyped and I knew it was an RTS game...

I must confess I am not very "metal" as I only recognized Ozzy in the game, but I soon got into the heavy metal world and into the music... The game practically forces you to like the music since the game is pretty silent unless you are driving your car...

I must confess I'm not much of a musical person at all! As a matter of fact I had to turn down the difficulty not because of RTS, but because the Fan Tribute is too much for me... On Gentle you can miss half the notes and the game still considers it valid!

And... I'm kinda new to RTS.. the closet thing I've played to an RTS game are Pikmin and Overlord, which are the perfect kind of games to get you ready for Brutal Legend, specially Overload!

If I wasn't new to RTS I would just lead my troops into battle and lose... You have to get into the fray and play solos, double team with your troops...

My main complain is the map... The game asks you to find several hidden items, which is OK, but there are just too many to keep track of and the game should tell me what I've already done I only missed a buried metal piece and a jump, but I'd hate to be the poor soul who missed a dragon statue!

The world is pretty amazing, I assume everything is metal inspired and you could basically take any screenshot from the game world and use it a heavy metal cover and the only thing that really got repetitive was the ambush missions... Thank God they are short!

*Spoilers!*
The story is pretty great... except for the ending....

Eddie find a legend that tells him who he really is, which is basically the same thing the big bad tells him near the end... except Eddie only reacts to this information when somebody tells him about it. It really bothered me that Eddie was unfazed by finding out he had made a terrible mistake until the plot required him to...

And the ending itself was kinda silly... Ophelia was in the Sea of Black Tears for THREE MONTHS and not only is she STILL ALIVE but she didn't even prune a bit! WHAAA!?!

And how can we believe that Eddie didn't get any reward for saving the world? He was the son of a legendary hero and a the empress of demons... He started the rebellion, he did all the dirty work, yet we're supposed to believe that since he's a roadie his efforts went unnoticed?

Yeah, right! There Eddie goes riding a huge Hextadon summoning a fiery blimp and making faces melt! If that isn't the definition of stealth I don't what is! ¬_¬

And the ending is WAY too open ended... Schafer usually doesn't ending games like this... Maybe Jack Black said he wouldn't work on the game unless there was a sequel?
*End of spoilers*


The game was pretty amazing, and yet... It's not Schafer's best.. I wonder if it's EA's fault, Jack Black's fault or maybe actually Schafer's fault?





Torchlight is Diablo with a must faster pace... and it's pure crack! The look never stops to drop, the next level is always around the corner, the scenario changes before you get bored of it... it's SOOO addictive! And as someone with a huge backlog, I just have to love a RPG that can be beat in 10-20 hours!

I don't remember Diablo that well.. I didn't even beat it but I know the pet is new! It can go to town to sell your items so you won't have to leave the dungeon every five minutes to sell your loot... Instead you'll leave every ten minutes to buy new identify scrolls... ¬_¬

Still, it's nice to have a companion around, specially since you can teach it spell! I gave mine the ability to summon zombies and skeletons! A necromancer puppy! Beat that, Molyneux!

I played as the Alchemist, which is magic user of the game and I just loved the spells in the game, they are pretty effective, but sometimes you can aim them at areas you can't reach yet, which can make things too easy since you can kill enemies that can't fight back.. I guess the game needed an extra layer of polish? I did notice a few things here and there that could do with fixing, but the never ending search for look made me forget about them quick!

If there is one thing this game does is that it makes you a greedy bastard!

I can't really say much more... It's addictive, it's fun... it's cheap.. I see no reason not to get this game!




The latest Tales of Monkey Island was my favorite and yet... I can't say a word with out spoiling the game, and I really mean it! This game has things that will either blow your mind or make you very angry! I spend most of the game dazed by all the things I had discovered... Let's just say that after you play it you'll wish you didn't have to wait for the final chapter!



And of course the reason this got delayed... Mirror's Edge... I had only played the demo and didn't see what the fuss was about.. I only got it because it was dirt cheap!

But I soon knew why people loved AND hated this game so much... When you get things right and it flows perfectly it's amazing! And when you're being chased by the cops it's exciting to run for your life... until the game FORCES you to fight!

In many rooms you'll encounter MANY heavily armed enemies, in most of them you can dodge and avoid them even if they have machine guys you CAN simply avoid them, but sometimes the game makes up some excuse that forces you to fight... and it's not much fun... Specially if you don't want to kill anybody, which is weird since sometimes you punch people over a building where they plummet to their death and yet the game still considers you a pacifist!

The cutscenes are weird, the style doesn't match that of the game and I could swear that some characters look weird in the cutscenes... and yet the animation seemed rather fluid and stylized.

While I did enjoy the game I hope the sequel has less enemies or that it doesn't force you to fight them if you don't want to...

The tutorial could have been better too... Some of the moves I needed near the end I didn't know I could do until I saw someone on YouTube do it!

I had no idea Koei was doing iPhone games...

This is their first, and it appears to be a port of the strategy game based on The Romance of Three Kingdoms and it looks like they are making it more friendly for newcomers.

Hopefully it will be more newcomer friendly because I've heard it's a ridiculously hard!

But is it a good time to release it? There doesn't seem to be anything new worthwhile on the iPhone, but on other platforms we have too much on our plate, it's likely to get lost between the hardcore players with Borderlands, Torchlight and so many other game out now... even if you did buy it would be forgotten amongst all the new titles...

Let's hope it does well, because their might be a chance of us getting a Dynasty Warriors Touch or Samurai Warriors Touch in the future!

I was expecting my copy of Brutal Legend to arrive last week, so I wasn't sure what to play since I hate stop playing a game because I got another arrived... That's how I got a backlog in the first place!


As of this moment, it has yet to arrive...


I don't know why I played an RPG, maybe because I thought it would be hilarious if I beat a whole RPG before the game arrived?

Titan Quest is basically Diablo in ancient Greece where you fight mythical creatures from Greek mythology, except.... Halfway through the game you decide to go to Egypt... and then to Asia...

You'd think the change of scenery would make the game more refreshing but it actually pissed me off... What? Couldn't they find enough Greek ghouls to fill up a whole game? There are three God of War games and I don't remember them having to borrow monsters from other mythologies!

Frankly the game started to bore me when I reached the end of the Greek storyline and I was hoping that would be the end and when I saw it was just the mid point I got pretty pissed at the game...

The enemies aren't that hard unless they swarm you and the game is so generous with potions that all I had to do was stand in front of a boss and attack while constantly hitting the potion button...

The ending was lame and the expansion pack has you playing the WHOLE thing again but with an extra mission at the end.... Why can't you let me play the new stuff directly? This is an RPG! You can't expect me to play the whole thing again just for a final mission!




I hadn't even tried my copy of Bionic Commando and since my copy of Brutal Legend was going to arrive during the weekend I could just play it while I waited for Monday...

I don't know why they made the hero a swearing dreadlocks gravelly guy, but once you use the code and he looks like he should it stopped bothering me...

Making a sequel to a game this old is a tough challenge if you're doing it in 3D and not a 2D one like on XBLA or Wii Ware...

But gameplay-wise? It was pretty good! You start off with no arm at all and you slowly gain your arm and new powers as you progress through the game, once you can simply grapple enemies and throw them around it gets really fun!

But the first act is rather tame... I only started to get into it when I reach the second act, once you start having fights with more than one mecha it gets REALLY interesting...

The challenges also made the game a bit more fun, trying out what they ask you to do is usually fun AND challenging!

But the story... it was rather dumb... specially the ending... I can't help to feel the game was rushed, specially seeing how the act kept getting shorter and shorter and how thing made less sense when I got closer to the ending.... Skip the next paragraph if you don't want spoilers...



Why did Super Joe betray us? He had no reason to! And what exactly happened to Spencer's wife? They are trying to say she's the arm, but the arm is robotic! Are her memories in there? Is here brain in there? It doesn't make sense! Then again, if this was an anime and they said... "My wife is in my arm" I would just shrug...


Overall, I starts slow, gets better and ends oddly... It would have been much better with a little more polish storywise, and maybe make the acts more even, but it was still pretty fun...



I only played some iPhone games....

Family Guy: Uncensored is almost worth it for the Mega Man parody level... except the game is so short it will probably end as quick as an actual episode of the show... But it also has the chicken fight scene...

Hook Champ has a cool retro look and it's all about grappling along a series of levels being chased by a curse that won't let you leave the temple with it's idol... It's so challenging I haven't beaten it yet, but I don't mind... It's that good!



Hopefully I'll finally be able to play Brutal Legend this week?

Street Fighter IV was pretty amazing.... I must admit I'm pretty rusty, I haven't played a traditional fighter since the Dreamcast era, sure I've played games like Tekken and Soul Calibur, but they don't have complex movements like traditional 2D ones do...

I already made a post about how at first I thought Seth was the cheapest worse boss ever.. then I remember that all Capcom bosses are cheap.

As gorgeous as the graphics from SF III were, I do think SF IV 3D graphics and style are great and breath a new life into the characters, they finally no longer look.... two dimensional? Thanks to their expressions, cutscenes and chatter between fights the characters have more personality than ever!

It was great to see how things made more sense, you could finally see the motives of why some people fought and it made a lot more sense....

I also loved how the style make the game more hilarious than ever, I laughed so hard when I did Dan Hibiki's Ultra Combo, not only Dan but the faces the opponent does when punched in the face....

It makes me wished they did a new Pocket Fighter... Get on it, Capcom!

About the new character, I don't know if I like Rufus or Crimson Viper better, but I really dislike El Fuerte.... Oh look! A wrestling cook who is bad at cooking, how novel! And he's Mexican and keeps talking about spicy things.... And I don't like his moveset...

But I don't want to rant too much about his game... XP



Machinarium is from the people who made Samorost and it's very similar to it, except prettier and with robots....

It's a beautiful game with a world you'll love to explore with lots of fun environmental puzzles...
And one PUZZLE puzzle or two every screen! It's like having a turret sequence every five minutes!

Even Myst doesn't have this many puzzles per screen!

There is one puzzle in particular which might make you hate the game... They force you play connect 5 / Gomoku, which is impossible to win unless you're good at that game or look up a strategy on the Internet, which is what 90% have done...

And yet I still loved the game! Maybe it's because the game includes a mini-game that gives you the walkthrough for the area? Halfway through the game I just played the shmup minigame every time I found a tile puzzle, or anything of that sort, because Gradius is more fun than Towers of Hanoi, dammit!

So you definitely get this game, but when you have to play the connect 5 game, ask someone for a savefile or look up a strategy online or your experience could be ruined!

Did I mention this game about a cute lil' robot? And that it has a bunch of other cool lil' bots?




As for the stinkers....

Silent Hill: The Escape is an iPhone game.. that was ported for mobile phones... I'm sure this made an OK mobile game, but it's not good enough to be ported to the iPhone just like that...

All you do is run around a maze, find a key and find the exit. There are enemies that move ridiculous slowly that you HAVE to shoot, because you can't dodge them, you can take another route... where you are likely to find another monster you'll have to shoot...

The game was boring and un-challenging... If it had offered anything to the Silent Hill mythos I might have actually bothered to finish it!



And then.... Eternity's Child... yes... THAT GAME!

The controls seemed a bit bad at first, until I used a controller which made things much better and easier... maybe too easy?

The only enemy that offered a challenge are the heart thingies, the rest can be dealt with easily...

Once again the game started to bore me with every level looking the same as the last, so... I checked the folder it was in and found out I modify it to go directly to the ending! Why not? It was either that or stop playing!

Good Lord! The final boss is an abomination! It look decent enough, but it's animation and patterns are terrible! Since I no longer gave a damn I looked up for cheats and there was one, so I could finally beat the boss.... But I still have no idea how, it seems you can only hit it at certain times, but I have no idea when....

While I don't think this game is as bad as people say it is, I do think it's bad enough to be avoided... It is bad enough to cheat at it without me feeling bad though... I've played worse, much, MUCH worse! XP

Fortunately Luc's newest game Mecho Wars seems to be much better, although I've only played a few levels...




Hopefully my copy of Brutal Legend should arrive this week and hopefully I'll enjoy it?