Review: Chuzzle Deluxe
Color matching games have long become the Connect4 of the penultimate puzzle arcade game experience for the PC—the solace of sleepy housewives, bored office workers, and insomniac marathon Made for SciFi movie watching. Chuzzle from Popcap games is no exception to the shifting bands of random objects, matching up to three similar to cause them to vanish from the field…
At least—during a cursory examination.
Chuzzles appear to be cute blobs of fur, akin to Koosh balls with eyes. The object of the game is to shuffle rows of these fuzzy animals to that similarly colored chuzzles line up in as few as three. When this event happens they explode with a squeak and their eyeballs are sucked up into a flask on the side of the screen. Their eyeballs!
Chuzzle is a morbidly adorable color matching game where we are asked to …
Slightly Late Video Review — Mike Tyson’s Punch Out!!
In a desperate attempt to whore ourselves across more media channels, we here at Vox have been experimenting with this strange YouTube thing you kids are into these days. The result is a video version of our Mike Tyson’s Punch Out review.
Don’t forget to let us know what you think in the comments. We’re new at this, we can use all the help we can get…
Dreaming Tentacles and the Majesty of Colors
It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to write about tentacled abyssal horrors from the pelagian depths, which is why the flash game I Fell In Love With The Majesty Of Colors comes as such a welcome surprise. In this little 8-bit styled adventure, you take on the role of a nameless elder horror from the ocean fathoms who has just recently risen up. Lured to the surface by colourful balloons, you experience your first encounter with humanity and so the game begins.
The controls for Majesty of Colors are simple enough, just move your mouse about the screen and the creature will stretch forth a tentacle to follow your motions. Click to pick up and hold things like fish and screaming humans. You interact with the game world by picking things up, moving them …
“What Games Should I Get?” Wii Edition
So you’ve just slipped $250 into Shigeru Miyamoto’s g-string and come away with a lapful of shiny white Wii. But even though you’re willing to drop the better part of a paycheque on a gaming system, you have no idea what games you should shove into the blue and bright video maw of your gaming system. You know, that you bought to play games.
You’re not alone. In fact, dozens of people just like you have been cluttering up the message boards and forums I frequent, so it’s come time to do something about your incredible, if free-spending, ignorance. So then, I present you to the infallible Vox Ex Machina List of Nintendo Wii Games You Should Buy Right The Hell Now (Preferably From Our Online Store).
Super Mario Galaxy
It’s the latest Mario game for the latest Nintendo console and if you didn’t buy …
Micro-Review: Dreamfall: The Longest Journey
This game made us cry.
We cried like little baby voces who had just got coal for Christmas, and it was strange because we knew what had to happen. Dreamfall is one of those games that starts at the end. Except the difference is: the beginning is without context, without a sense of presence; a perfect, crystalline introduction without emotion…
With all this talk about Funcom and what their current holdings are doing to their company we just had to hearken back to this beautiful game and its predecessor. We still remember the day that we got The Longest Journey (the first one, this review is of the sequel) opened the box with melancholy hearts and read the end of the instructions.
Better Than Faith Reviews Left Behind: Eternal Forces
The pack of heathens and jackals over at Better Than Faith have recently taken up the torch of reviewing those strange religious-themed video games you see out at the used stores and collecting dust upon the Last Shelf of Lost Hope. This time, they’ve taken on Left Behind: Eternal Forces. Since the BTF people happen to be good friends of mine, I’m sharing the love with you.
Have an excerpt from their review, just to get you in the mood of things.
“We’ve all been searching for a game where you can play as a group of militant Christian evangelists fighting the evil forces of Secularism, and we’ve finally found it. Left Behind: Eternal Forces is a game where the UN and its Antichrist leader Nicholae Carpathia (which must be pronounced Niiiiiic-ko-lie Kar-PAAAAAAA-thee-uh to obtain its full amusement factor) are vilified along with all non-Christians, education, …
Animal Crossing: City Folk for Nintendo Wii
So What’s New?
The latest Animal Crossing edition combines elements from the previous two games, creating a world familiar to fans while offering the most bang for players new to the series. Like the original GameCube classic, AC: City Folk offers a console game world on the big screen along with the additions and improvements of the DS version. Now widescreen-capable with added visual details to your favorite flowers, fish and furry friends.
The curvature of the world is similar to the DS game, hypercylindrical but limited. View the horizon as you travel up and down in multiple levels. You get your rivers, your waterfalls and your strip of beach for all your fishing needs! Your town comes with a native fruit and your basic flowers. New bugs, fossils and fish have been added for your collecting enjoyment.
AC:CF puts your Wii remote to good use: cast your line to fish, swing your …
Micro-Review: The Force Unleashed (Wii)
Oh. Star Wars. How I love thee; let me count the ways.
Along with most Wii games, The Force Unleashed gave me the worst case of tennis elbow ever. But it was definitely worth it to watch storm troopers and strange plant creatures alike flying down corridors, screaming in agony…
Oh, that’s right. We essentially get to play as a bad guy in this one.
Micro-Review: Jade Empire
Jade Empire, by 2K Games and BioWare was a breath of fresh air between bouts of attempting to slog through old point-and-click adventure games and the mainstay of popular offerings. I had just gotten finished with Knights of the Old Republic a month earlier and nothing compared to how amazingly well that adventure/RPG had been constructed. Fortunately, BioWare to the rescue.
Age of Conan: How an MMORPG Dies
The MMORPG Age of Conan was released by Funcom right around the middle of May in 2008, probably to avoid getting steam-rollered and plowed under by the Wrath of the Lich King expansion for everyone’s favourite fantasy juggernaut. In less than a month of blistering sales fueled by desperate gamers trying to escape the pull of Warcraft, Age of Conan had gathered up over 700,000 subscribers in its muscled and well-oiled arms.
Six months later Funcom was quietly merging servers and banning anyone who talked about subscription numbers on their forums. Age of Conan is now, for all practical purposes, a walking and half-naked corpse shambling toward a dark horizon. So what happened? How did Age of Conan die?
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