My 13 3DS Games of 2013December 11, 2013 by



Super Mario 3D Land


Fire Emblem Awakening


The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D


Pokémon X


Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D


New Super Mario Bros 2


Project X Zone


Mario Kart 7


Animal Crossing: New Leaf


Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon


Sonic Lost World


Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate


The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds



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My Gaming Landscape [October 22, 2013]October 22, 2013 by

My Gaming Landscape

This is going to be quick as I didn't play very many games this past week simply because I was busy with work and work took extra long due to me still being a little sick. I played a little bit of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of TIme 3D but not much. It was mostly me finding heart pieces and gold skulltula and going through the Lost Woods. Seriously, over the week I played about two hours. Not much at all.

I also decided to play Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver on the PC. I bought it a while ago on Steam with the second game and Defiance but never played it. I had actually played it on the PSone back in the day but only for like a half an hour or something. There's this part early on with a lake that you have to jump across. That's the extent that I remember from playing it before. However, now I'm playing it and I'm having a love-hate relationship with it. This is one of those games where it's really easy to get lost and not have any idea what to do. However, the atmosphere of the game and the lore in the story, they freakin' nailed it. It's soooo good! I made two videos of me playing it and put it up on my YouTube channel. One is up now, the other will be ready by Thursday. I'm going to continue playing it but I'm still of two minds about it because I tried to play some more of it yesterday but I got stuck and this is the seventh time or so that's happened.

Finally, I played more Pokémon X. I actually just started playing again yesterday since I think last Tuesday. I am in Luminose City now and I got a Bulbasaur which I renamed BallsAreSore because that's what my mother calls Bulbasaur. I leveled up my Fenniken to Braixen (which is named Firefox FYI because I'm "creative") and almost all my Pokémon are level 10 or higher. I actually started focusing on the new Pokémon Amie feature and now Firefox gets more EXP in battles. I'm going to try and focus on this part of the game now since I'm at a point where I'm going to be grinding and getting all my Pokémon to level 15, except for BallsAreSore since he evolves into Ivysaur at level 16. So yeah. Pokémon is still fun after all these years.

That's everything I've been playing. So what about you!?

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My Gaming Landscape [October 10, 2013]October 16, 2013 by

My Gaming Landscape

Sorry my Gaming Landscape for the week is late but I've been sick with the flu since last Friday. The upside to this is I got to play a lot of games this week. I continued playing Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning but I only played it twice this past week. I've noticed that I'm having a hard time sitting down and playing the game for multiple sessions. I think it's because most of the game is essentially busy work and side quests. Even the story missions play out like the side quests. The quests are fun and the combat make them enjoyable but it makes the game less engaging. I'm going to continue to play it but only occasionally.

I wanted something else to play on my 3DS so I bought The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D. Ocarina of Time is easily my favorite Zelda game, though I haven't played that many Zelda games to a long extent. I've gone through the first dungeon and talked to Zelda and even got the song from the Lost Woods but I haven't played it since last Friday because I bought Pokémon X when it came out Saturday. I haven't played a Pokémon game since Leaf Green in 2005 but I was surprised by how similar X is to Leaf Green. I've currently only gotten the first gym badge as I've mostly been grinding and leveling up all my Pokémon, of which I have around 15.

I tried some demos, namely Beyond: Two Souls, The Wolf Among Us, and the Battlefield 4 beta. Beyond is not a good game. It's a game that has a linear story but wants to trick you into thinking it doesn't. It does this by making you make choices that don't actually have any real consequence, fail proof sequences and a storyline that jumps around in time for no cohesive reason. I was a fan of Indigo Prophecy but this is just not good. Certainly more style than substance.

The Wolf Among Us on the other hand is a game with a similar approach to gameplay but it manages to do it in a compelling way. The Wolf Among Us has great characters, exciting action sequences and mechanics that make sense in regards to the action on screen. One thing however is I played it on the Xbox 360 and there were multiple frame rate issues so I recommend picking this game up on the PC. As for the Battlefield 4 beta, I loaded it up and played for 15 minutes. I realized that it was exactly the same title as Battlefield 3 and quit.

Really quick, I played some Angry Birds while laying in bed sick and I played a little bit of GTA V and Online. I played as Trevor and bought some properties and all of the guns, and clothes I could get and did a few arms trafficking missions. Then I went online and tried to do two missions. I did a deathmatch with only one other guy and won and failed to get anyone to do a race with me. Then I quit. This is why I don't like Online games!

Finally, I popped in the Prince of Persia Trilogy into my PS3 and started playing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time HD. I loved this game back in the day and it's still really good. However, this HD version is not well done. The graphics, while better, lack any kind of polish. The sound also sounds off at times and somehow in the distance. Finally, the AI seems to have gotten dumber. I was fighting a group of enemies and one of them just went in the corner and started walking around in circles. Still, there's nothing broken about the game and I'm still enjoying it. I'm about halfway in after playing for just under three hours.

Promotions! This week I'm just going to just list them.

Whew! Okay. So what did you play this past week?

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Remaking for make a new destinySeptember 18, 2013 by

Do remakes usually is a hard task. Few developers finds the right correlation with the original game to a new experience on a different hardware. This turns into a harder job when we are talking about a great serie. And near to impossible when the subject is a legend.

I'll talk about the two recents The Legend of Zelda remakes, and how Nintendo did a great work without lost the essence and felt on the market skepticism. Firstly, The Ocarina of Time 3D was a very importante move to Nintendo.The 3DS was needing some great and expressive launch, and Nintendo chose the great game that they did all time. But just release the same game with some visual improvement probably don't works well, and they decided to remake all, changing the gameplay and including the 3DS hardware capabilities on the gameplay. How I wrote in another article, the result is great, a must have for action rpg lovers.

Nowadays, the destiny is against Nintendo. The Wii U is suffering the same problems that your smaller brother. It needs more great games to start to selling well. Nintendo decided to take the same decision: let's remake a great Zelda game. Who is right choose? How about the game that suffered more with the market skepticism ever: The Wind Waker.

Firstly, that game originally runs on the controversial Gamecube. Second, it's have a very colorful visual style, a touching story and some gameplay elements that just exist on this entry. It's a perfect describe of the Wii U situation. It's a discredited console that proposes things that many players don't have certain that wants. And Wind Waker is a good tool to show why a games lover need to buy a Wii U soon. The remake seem be as rich and enjoyable as the original, keeping the mood and heroic storytelling. Watching the gameplay, it shows too what the Wii U can do, with great illumination and particles effects. It's show that the hardware isn't outdated and that it is ready to deliver good moments to their owners.

Since the N64, Zelda is a way to Nintendo shows what his hardware can do. Wind Waker HD seem to keep that tradition alive and stronger than ever. It's a important, and I may risk to say, the first true step to do anything significant for the Wii U.

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