Will be travelling to Germany this week and won't probably have too much time for GB. So here are the games that I've played last weeks, while I remember...  

 Plan is to take either GBA or DS with me and start FF 4. Will be missing two Bombcast's since I am not taking my notebook and can't be bothered with iTunes. Long story. There is also a Carling Cup Final on Sunday that I probably have to miss. Go Gooners \m/ Anyway on with the games...

Red Steel

On my previous blog I suspected that if there would be a frustrating boss sword fight I would not continue this. Well didn't get so far. About half way through the game I run into a save glitch. Or maybe it was designed not save during that level. No way I never want to play that shitty level again. Bunnies, ski-lopes and mannequins. It is not fun, cool, scary or anything. When game is not fun, like Red Steel, I see no purpose playing it any further.

Guitar Hero: Van Halen

This was interesting. Did you know that Van Halen existed only between 1978-1984? At least according to this game. I used to listen quite lot of Van Halen when I was younger but don't actually own any of their CDs. Wife liked some of the songs in the game so I ordered a Van Halen CD. The game is worth playing through once, but I doubt I'll ever play this again. Despite having only few songs short of completing the game on Hard.

Port Royale 2

Can't really decide on this one. Love playing Pirates! again but just hope that it wasn't so tedious to build the fleet back up after a big battle. Will write more about this later on.

Just Cause 2

Simply awesome. Shooting might be tad "funny" and the voice acting horrendous. And maybe the world bit too barren. Having said that. The crazy things the arm thing allows is just awesome. Not to forget the world it self. It is absolutely huge and the variation is very impressive. Some parts reminded me of Far Cry 2. Especially the jungle/boat sequences. Sure that game had its fault but it had a such a nice "serious" feel. Just Cause 2 is more wacky in every way. I'll probably return to this and do some cheevos later on. Was kind of thinking to return to first Just Cause which I never finished, but I remember it being more empty.

Alan Wake DLC

I really liked Alan Wake, gave it even a slightly biased 5/5. Got the 1st DLC with the my collectors edition. The 2nd was on sale during the holidays. Only now got to play these. Finished both in on one sitting.

The Signal, kind of pointless. Doesn't take the story really forward and uses the same locations from the main game.

The Writer was much better and it even some way concludes the story. The bizarre lighthouse section is probably closest to Max Payne, which is not a bad thing. The end boss here was bit unnecessary and the platform sections not really fun. I think the DLC's would have worked better as one since there is no gap (in the story) between them and both are rather short. Glad that I am done with this game now. Don't see myself ever returning it though. Not even for more cheevos. Kind of like Heavy Rain, one play through is enough.

Again with the indie love:

Quantz

Must admit, I don't like this. Game looks and sounds good but I just didn't enjoy the gameplay. The rotation mechanism and the way the small balls bounce around I feel that there is no control. Makes the game feel too casual and/or maybe its the match 4 element. I know that the puzzle game mode is different but just don't "feel" it. Also I found the game, well except for the bouncing stuff, to be too easy.

Ninja Escape

Not really much to write about this. Another Japanese Xbox 360 indie game from Dot Zo Games. Idea is simple freefalling game over 10 levels. Nowhere near as good as Ninja Bros which is a proper puzzle game.

Ninja Train

A platformer ala Bit Trip Runner except that whole game is viewed from window of a moving train or a plain. Meaning bad visibility. Visuals are in the cool retro style as all Dot Zo Games are. No doubt worst of their game I've played. Didn't even want to buy the full version. Trial was jut too buggy for me. It froze multiple times. Not really tempted to pay for something like that. Even if its 80MS points only

PlasmaWarrior

Another cool Metroid-type indie freeware game. Really like the retro black/blue visuals. Nice little story and a boss fight. Link 

Bennu

Old Egyptian themed physics based puzzle. I've got the XBLI trial version which I was planning to buy. Anyway this has been recently made available for the PC as well. For free. Works like a charm with the Xbox 360 controller still. Really interesting gameplay mechanism, but not really easy. The controls are really tricky and too much random things (again) going on which I don't care for. Link to the PC version