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time to buy echocrome and eden

Got an email about this from Playstation Underground.

I was hoping Mega Man 9 to be 5 bucks, but alas...my hopes have been crushed.

Last guy and echochrome here I come.

As someone who has 3 of these games (Novastrike, echochrome, and eden) this doesn't  mean too much to me, but I have been curious about The Last Guy.  At five bucks though it is a decent buy for these games.  Eden and Echocrhrome really aren't bad games, but they are the type that need a core following to feel worth it.  Eden could've been a little more forgiving for missing a jump, and Echocrhrome couldv'e just used a better detection system when its parallel lines actually lined up (too much minor tweeking and trial and error to get from one platform to the next).  Nova strike is actually a good game that is really only playable by those who like the old school shooters like Xevious (so you have to be over 25 yrs. old).  Thanks to all the Geometry Wars clones out there, Nova Strike becomes too challenging.  Once you get past not having the whole Right stick shoot/Left stick move that we've become accustomed to it is actually a good shooter with a good depth and pacing.  Its pretty much a Xevious that you can "scroll" in any direction.  So for an "old school gamer" it is a return to long lost gameplay mechanics, but current day players it will feel stifled and restrictive.

It is good that they reduced the price for these games, but it does say alot about the adoption of them.  They know these are the games that should have sold more at their original price, but didn't pull the wanted volume in DLs.  It makes a lot of sense that they are doing this, but is still good for these game that should at least be tried out by a good portion of gamers that would rather have a challenging experience that was only given back in the old school day of gaming.

I love playing PixelJunk Eden on a big TV with a good soundsystem.