Juggernaut: Revenge of Sovering is a free-to-play fantasy game from the folks at Mail.Ru. This strange, grindy hybrid of turn-based fighting and strategy is not your typical iOS animal; but it is definitely entertaining and easy on the eyeballs. An entertaining and goofy trip to be sure.
Marvelous AQL’s and SCE Japan Studio’s Soul Sacrifice for the Playstation Vita is a grim tale of sorcery and woe that forces you to make decisions more often than is comfortable – which makes the game even more intriguing and challenging. With a heavy story mode, a pile of cool characters and a solid combat mechanic, Soul Sacrifice is a great deal of fun, if not slightly depressing (due to the nature of the plot) and repetitive (game-play).
Have you every played the original Labyrinth game? I’m not referring to a videogame; I’m talking about the physical game in which you guide a silver ball through a wooden maze by using a tilting mechanism, avoiding pitfalls in the form of holes that will cause your marble to fall. If that is a game that you have enjoyed (or the thought of playing something with that description brings a smile to your face), then have I got a new game for you to try out. Wronghut, a development company from Finland, has created an iOS game called Mazement that does a fairly good job capturing the allure of Labyrinth.
Last month I posted a review for Appxplore’s sliding puzzler: Alien Hive. Last week, Appxplore announced a new mode for the game called “Blitz Mode”, in which the player has only 60 seconds to attain as large a score as possible. This update is free (for both iOS and Android), and is an even more addictive version of a game that I was already playing far too much for my own good.
“Stay on target. Stay on target.”
Who likes mechs? Ah. I can see that a fair number of you like the idea of being able to pummel the crap out of things housed in the relative safety of a giant robot. Now how many of you would like to kick some butt in a transforming space mech? Yes, I thought so. Well, partners: gather around and let me tell you about the little purchase that you are about to make called Strike Suit Infinity by Born Ready Games.
I was somewhat excited to try out Frima Studios’ Zombie Tycoon 2: Brainhov’s Revenge. Usually, any of the small number of games that I have tried with the word “tycoon” in the title have been a source of entertainment for me1. The only factor that gave me pause in this case was how well this RTS would play on a console/handheld rather than the PC (which has the benefit of having a keyboard and mouse). Surprisingly, the controls were never an issue; unfortunately, what started out as a fairly fun concept quickly shambled to a halt due to other issues – making this game a balancing act comprised of great parts, and not-so-great parts.
My love of DJ Hero is known to many1; and during my all-too-brief interludes with the game, I fancy myself to be quite the star. While I know I’ll never be spinning platters at an actual club, I frequently browse through products for my devices that might allow for some fun ways to play music when I host parties at my house. Urbanears has produced a neat little free iOS app called Slussen that fits the bill quite nicely. Even more interesting: they have also created an inexpensive adapter that puts the “extra fun” in “extra functionality”.
