I've only just realised that I still haven't done a post to announce the winners of my recent poll.
Now you may have already seen the results at the size, but I do love doing a post about it...anyway. Many of you had taken the time out to vote and for that I'm uber grateful for. So here in ascending order, the results for What's your favorite console.
In joint 4th place is... Nintendo 64, Mega Drive, NES, and the GameCube
3rd is Dreamcast
Joint 2nd is Playstation 3, Wii and the Playstation 2
But in 1st with 6 votes is....Xbox 360!
Thanks to all of you who voted this time. Make sure to keep your gamer eye peeled for my up coming poll! :D
Saturday 29 August 2009
Tuesday 11 August 2009
Get voting!
Hey gang,
Just a reminder to you all that you only have 11 days until the poll is closed.
Are you a PS3 nut, maybe your a Xbox 360 fan or you may even have a soft spot for anything retro and believe the Mastersystem or Megadrive was the awesome-ist console ever...if this is how you feel then make sure you get your vote in before the time runs out!
Just a reminder to you all that you only have 11 days until the poll is closed.
Are you a PS3 nut, maybe your a Xbox 360 fan or you may even have a soft spot for anything retro and believe the Mastersystem or Megadrive was the awesome-ist console ever...if this is how you feel then make sure you get your vote in before the time runs out!
Tuesday 4 August 2009
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Now as I’ve said before, this blog was something that I should have done AGES ago but it’s finally done! My long awaited review of Professor Layton and the Curious Village.
Set in the town of St. Mystere, you play as the Professor and his nifty (and yes he is nifty) assistant Luke. Called in by the late Baron’s family, your task is to find clues and to solve the mystery behind his will. The only clue they have to go on is that they need to find The Golden Apple. Not having a clue as to where to find it, it is up to the fearless duo to go and search for it. The best way to start any investigation is to always ask the residents. But St. Mystere is no ordinary town. In order to get any information, you have to answer the many riddles and brainteasers the villagers give to you. Also along your travels you can find additional puzzles so make sure you keep your eyes peeled. As with any other DS game, you get to interact with it by using the touch screen. During the game play it’s the stylus that you use to move around the village by tapping the arrows you see on the screen. You also use your stylus to interact with residents, who can give you a puzzle or even a hint to help you on your way. The game has over 130 puzzles within the game but you also can download additional puzzles, which are available weekly via the Nintendo Wi-fi. To set this up is very quick and simple to do. Instructions of how to set this up can be found in the instruction booklet. Now dearest readers you don’t need to worry if your not a boffin when it comes to figuring out puzzles for you have the chance to earn hint coins know as Picarats. These helpful coins can give you the chance to buy hints for puzzles helping you to solve them. These coins are available after completing puzzles . The fewer hints you use to solve them, the more Picarats you can get. Here’s a tip for you! It is highly advised that when you’re moving around the town and going from room to room, to tap different parts of each scene when you have a chance for you can find not only hidden Picarats but hidden puzzles.
Now its time for a mini story about how I brought the game. When the game was about to be released, I had a £5.00 voucher which I planned to use against the game. Now I had a great feeling about it and thought I should follow my gut feeling and get it as soon as possible. Upon reflection I am so glad I did for it sold like hot cakes! So many shops had sold out and those that had preowned copies were charging the full price, so you can imagine how chuffed I was that I got it without any problems.
Anyway this game lived up to my expectations. It allowed me to feed my need to solve puzzles and to realise that I’m not that good at it, while it had a great storyline which kept you guessing. The music and the many cut scenes which you get to see during game play, I thought were absolutely amazing and were more then I expected from this game. The game play is very easy to pick up and the touch screen I found was very responsive. This is very helpful since you do find yourself tapping the screen like crazy. As with any other game, you may believe that you have to be into puzzle solving to enjoy the game, which of course does help, but I think that if your willing to play something which can give you a challenge then this could be for you.
For younger or impatient gamers it may be frustrating for you to play this for there are some puzzles which just seem absolutely impossible to solve. This can obviously deter you from the game for it did sort of put me off at times, but if your willing to power through and if all else fails, ask someone else to help (which I will hold my hands up and say I had to) then you shouldn’t have too many problems. As you may already know, this is the first instalment out of three games which are due to be released in the Professor Layton series. Providing that the others can produce a game as highly enjoyable and challenging as this, I can see no reason as to why this wouldn’t be a hit…again!
Professor Layton gets a healthy U.F.G score of 4 out of 5!
Set in the town of St. Mystere, you play as the Professor and his nifty (and yes he is nifty) assistant Luke. Called in by the late Baron’s family, your task is to find clues and to solve the mystery behind his will. The only clue they have to go on is that they need to find The Golden Apple. Not having a clue as to where to find it, it is up to the fearless duo to go and search for it. The best way to start any investigation is to always ask the residents. But St. Mystere is no ordinary town. In order to get any information, you have to answer the many riddles and brainteasers the villagers give to you. Also along your travels you can find additional puzzles so make sure you keep your eyes peeled. As with any other DS game, you get to interact with it by using the touch screen. During the game play it’s the stylus that you use to move around the village by tapping the arrows you see on the screen. You also use your stylus to interact with residents, who can give you a puzzle or even a hint to help you on your way. The game has over 130 puzzles within the game but you also can download additional puzzles, which are available weekly via the Nintendo Wi-fi. To set this up is very quick and simple to do. Instructions of how to set this up can be found in the instruction booklet. Now dearest readers you don’t need to worry if your not a boffin when it comes to figuring out puzzles for you have the chance to earn hint coins know as Picarats. These helpful coins can give you the chance to buy hints for puzzles helping you to solve them. These coins are available after completing puzzles . The fewer hints you use to solve them, the more Picarats you can get. Here’s a tip for you! It is highly advised that when you’re moving around the town and going from room to room, to tap different parts of each scene when you have a chance for you can find not only hidden Picarats but hidden puzzles.
Now its time for a mini story about how I brought the game. When the game was about to be released, I had a £5.00 voucher which I planned to use against the game. Now I had a great feeling about it and thought I should follow my gut feeling and get it as soon as possible. Upon reflection I am so glad I did for it sold like hot cakes! So many shops had sold out and those that had preowned copies were charging the full price, so you can imagine how chuffed I was that I got it without any problems.
Anyway this game lived up to my expectations. It allowed me to feed my need to solve puzzles and to realise that I’m not that good at it, while it had a great storyline which kept you guessing. The music and the many cut scenes which you get to see during game play, I thought were absolutely amazing and were more then I expected from this game. The game play is very easy to pick up and the touch screen I found was very responsive. This is very helpful since you do find yourself tapping the screen like crazy. As with any other game, you may believe that you have to be into puzzle solving to enjoy the game, which of course does help, but I think that if your willing to play something which can give you a challenge then this could be for you.
For younger or impatient gamers it may be frustrating for you to play this for there are some puzzles which just seem absolutely impossible to solve. This can obviously deter you from the game for it did sort of put me off at times, but if your willing to power through and if all else fails, ask someone else to help (which I will hold my hands up and say I had to) then you shouldn’t have too many problems. As you may already know, this is the first instalment out of three games which are due to be released in the Professor Layton series. Providing that the others can produce a game as highly enjoyable and challenging as this, I can see no reason as to why this wouldn’t be a hit…again!
Professor Layton gets a healthy U.F.G score of 4 out of 5!
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