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Super Mario Galaxy 2

Haaris Ahmed — Mon, 31 May 2010 20:09:59 +0000

Yahoo!!!! Mario is back, AGAIN. And guess what? Bowser has kidnapped the princess, AGAIN. I have forked over some more of my hard earned cash to Nintendo to play this plumbers latest installment, AGAIN.

This game has been getting nothing but amazing reviews, and they are well deserved. Galaxy 2 is fanfuckingtastic. This game has everything a GREAT video game needs. Planet jumping, moving from 2d to 3d worlds, and YOSHI!!!! The humor is actually good in this installment, and new power ups are great editions to the Mario world.

I haven’t been able to play with Luigi yet but I know he is in the game.

In the end its all about game play, and this game has it. It is so much fun throwing on the Wii and running around with Mario.The game is challenging and you might get frustrated, but with an engaging story line, signature Nintendo graphics and tight controls you will soon lose all track of time and enter the black hole of the Mario Universe.

There are some things I didn’t like. The main complaint is the fact after you save and quit the game it does not save the lives you have collected. There are 1 ups all over this game so dieing will not be an issue, but when you start up a continued game, regardless of if you quit with 1 life or 25 lives it will reset the count back to 6 every time. Again not a big deal, you have a faceship (a spaceship shaped like Mario’s face) which have area’s to replenish lost lives with 1 up’s scattered around the spacecraft, and these 1 up opportunities regenerate!

Mario has done it again. This game appeals to EVERYONE, whether you are a hardcore gamer or casual player you can make time to play this gem. Its MARIO!!!!

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War Cometh Darksiders Review

Haaris Ahmed — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:09:50 +0000

Game DONE. I beat it last night after about 23 hours of gameplay. I liked this game so much I waited till after ai beat it to review it. Verdict, AWESOME.

What do I like about this game? EVERYTHING. LIST TIME!!!!

1.- This is a mature game.

2.- You fight as War, one of the 4 Horseman of the Apocalypse plus at one point you ride on “RUIN” your horse (think Link’s Epona)

3.- You fight both Demons from Hell and Angelic Beings from Heaven.

4.- This games puzzles and dungeons are fun and intuitive, not hard and impossible.

5.- This games looks great, seamless cut scenes, great story.

6.- THIS GAME IS BLOODY AND GORE AS ALL HELL, rip people apart, cut of demons heads, slice hell dogs in half, rip off the wings of angels, and some of the most gruesome boss finish move can be executed in Darksides. The game doesn’t make you press all these crazy button combos to custom finish enemies like in God of War, to activate a finishing move you press 1 button, not a 5 button combo. This is better for me, because in a melee battle situations the last thing you want to be doing is in-putting finishing combo moves and you still have to shred 7 other enemies on screen.

7.-camera is excellent.

8.-Weapons and secondary weapons like the chain, chaos blade(boomerang weapon), horn, Scythe, power glove, and even a mask all play a role and can be used in multiple ways to defeat enemies/dungeons.

9.- Level design was on point.

10.- BOSS BATTLES WERE THE SHIT!!!

11.-Controls were tight.

12.- The onscreen menues and settings are boss.

13.- Joe Madureira left comics books for this project. Thnaks Joe, you the man!

There was very little I didn’t like about this game. The main thing I didn’t like was the map and certain tasks. I hate puzzles in an action/adventure type games, but Darksiders did this aspect very well. At certain points the task you had to do was unclear and sometimes I would get lost. In the beginning of the story War has a demonic sprite (voiced is played by Mark the motherfuckingjediofthisshit Hamill) cursed to his arm, this sprite functions as a guide in the game, this sprite also happens to be the worst guide ever. You hit select and he materializes and gives you “advise” on your current task. This advise is rarely of any use, which is a shame because Darksiders put so much time into every other aspect of this game. These moments were few and far between plus we live in an age with youtube, and BAZZARGAMER walkthrough was something I would use for an assist. Here is his link: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_playlists&search_query=darksiders+walkthrough&uni=1 Thanks BAZZARGAMER

Overall rating? —–SPOILER ALERT——- There will be a part 2.

War chops of a fat 4 ½ slices of demonic meat. Buy Darksiders!

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New Old School Super Mario Bros Review

Haaris Ahmed — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:31:05 +0000

Dana na na na na, NA.

Once again Mario has shown up this holiday season with Luigi and 2 Toads in the New Super Mario Bros for the Wii. Instead of the Wii putting out a sequel to the Mario’s Galaxy they opted to throw it way back to the days of 2-d Mario with updated graphics and some new power ups. Results, AMAZING. Pick this game up, if you can find it!

Yeah its 2-d. Think Super Mario Bros 3, which is the definitive Super Mario game according to this pixel junky. There is a world map that you have to navigate around and you click to start the level. Yoshi and his variant colors show up to the game. Warps, Koppa Troopa’s that are green, red and undead, Ba-Bombs, Chirp Chips, and all of Bowser’s kids show up for this classic reboot.

Controls are perfect. All you do is flip your Wii controller horizontal, instant D-pad. No extra buttons. I am not going to get into how to play this game, cause if you don’t know how you are just plain stupid.

The only thing different is the power ups, like a helicopter hat, a penguin suit (I have yet to use) and a mini mushroom, which rules. Apparently there is a multi-player mode, but I haven’t cracked that open just yet. I do like the fact that if you are playing with someone who is not as good as and cant pass a particular section all you have to do is pick them up and carry them to end of the level. Genius.

This holiday season bring home this timeless classic. It is rare when a toddler, thrasher, tranny, and granny can all get together to play one game and they all will like it.

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