Ikaruga

This game sucks

Game no: 320

Genre: Shooter

Platform: Nintendo Switch

Release Date: 2018 (2001 on the Dreamcast)

What is it about?

I have no idea. Bad guys attacking a place and ship comes to destroy them

What I liked?

There is a freeplay mode since you be dying a lot. 

The 2 different shields that makes you constantly have to change between red and blue shields to avoid the weapons fire

What I didn't liked?

Everything else. The game is not that fun since you keep on dying more times than you can count.

No idea what am shooting at most of the time.

Status: Finish the 5 stages in around 2 hours 

Fun Factor: Not fun at all. Unless you are glutton for punishment 

Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze

The game is satisfying hard

Game no: 319
Genre: Platformer
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Release date: 2018 (2014 for Wii U)



What is it about?
A group of frozen pirates came to Donkey Kong country and its up to the DK family to stop them.

What I liked?
The platforming is enjoyable and fun/ It's difficult and challenging but rewarding when you get to overcome it.
Each island has a different aesthetic to it. From the ice island, lava island as well a island that is filled with fruit.
Funky mode gives an added boost for those who find the platforming difficult. It adds extra hearts and skippable stages if  it gets too hard
Diddy, Dixie and Cranky will add extra hearts and boost Donkey's abilities. Diddy can hover, Dixie can make you fly a bit higher and Cranky can jump higher over obstacles
Funky Kong has a shop that provide extra abilities such as lifes and hearts incase you get stuck.
Mine carts and rocket barrels are lots of fun

What I didn't like?
The bosses are hard. They require more than 15 hits and their patterns keeps on changing. The fish and monkey boss are the hardest ones.
Grabbing is a hit or miss. Sometime it works, sometime doesn't
The letter KONG and the puzzle pieces are not so easy to obtain. It does provide challenges for those who wants more

Status: Finish the game till island no 6

Fun Factor: A fun single player game. Worth to be played wwd

Final Fight 2

I can't believe this was a genre during the 90s

Game no: 318
Genre: Action (Beat em up)
Platform: SNES
Release Date: 1993



What is it about?
Haggar daughter has been kidnap and it's up to you and a group of friends to travel around the world to stop them.

What I liked?
Fighting seems to be on par with most games during that time. Its so satisfying to hit someone and execute a special move when you are surrounded

What I didn't liked?
Everything else in the game sucks. The movement is slow. You keep fighting the same enemies over and over again. The fighting is repetitive. You are stuck going from point A to B until you clear to whole area.
The reason why I kept playing is just to see what is the story about. The last boss is a character that eventually made it to the Street Fighter seriies

Status: Finish the game

Fun factor: This game is slow and too repetitive. Can be avoided

Micro Machines 2 Turbo Tournament

This game is faster than F-zero

Game no: 317
Genre: Racing
Platform: Genesis
Release date:1994



What is it about?
Micro racing around everyday places and items.

What I liked?
The choices of cars and tracks are surprisingly varied. Cars range from dragsters, formula one cars and dump trucks
There are a lot of different tracks that provides enough twists and turns. I especially love the tracks on the dining table.
Racing is a lot of fun if you get the layout of the track.

What I didn't like?
The race is extremely unforgiving. One wrong move and you are gone. The races gets harder and faster over time. Unless you have lightning like reflexes there is no chances in winning the race.
The cars also have very sensitive handling. One extra wrong turn can make you fall down a cliff which sucks because fundamentally the game does play well.
The tree house stage sucks. The helicopter is hard to control and the wind effects really makes racing difficult.

Status: Finish all the races

Fun Factor: This game is not that fun unless you know what is their track layout

Back from vacation

On Tuesday my wife say let’s go on vacation. So with minimal planning we manage to snag a nice 3 days 2 nights vacation at a Safari Park 3 hours drive from the city. The 300km drive was uneventful and boring. Once we arrived at 2:00pm on Tuesday we straight away went to the Wildlife park.

During January is usually off season for the hotel. The guest were less than 20 and most of the facility is operating on minimum capacity. While some must say that is boring to go to a hotel where there are no guest. I say that is like we rented the whole hotel to ourselves. We went to the safari tour and saw a lot of wild animals such as Lions, Tigers, Elephants. Most of them were alone and bored. Due to the heat or probably there is nothing much to do. At least the kids are having fun. We saw a couple of shows like the animal, bird, and wildlife show. At night we went to the Night Safari and saw a horrible rendition of the Indiana Jones show. Since there were no one, we were treated to touch the animals and get up close with the birds.

The next day we spend half a day playing archery, paintball, and ATV. I got to ride a horse and I tell you it’s not like Red Dead at all. It seems to be quite boring and my butt hurt. In the evening we went to the water parks. The kids played at the largest slide while and the wife played with my little one. My butt is still sore in landing from the slides.

Today we left at 10:30. And arrive at 2:00pm. My wife is on vacation withdrawal since she needs to work tomorrow and I am hurting the whole body. well at least this is part of the resolution of taking my family on a vacation this year. There is still 11 more months. A lot can happened.

Halo 3

Finish the fight

Game no: 316
Genre: FPS
Platform: Xbox One (Originally for Xbox 360)
Released Date: 2007 (Part of The Master Chief Collection)




What is it about?
The last chapter in the Halo trilogy. It all ends here

What I liked?
The machine gun is back.
There are new weapons like the ax machine, hammer (something)
New vehicles such as the chopper and the hornet. Old vehicles now handle better than before
The story has a twist ending at the end.
Vast stages that require to go from one end to the next
Augmented items like the bubble shield, regenerator and flare.
The ending is a throwback to Halo 1

What I didn't liked?
There are still no waypoints. You do get lost here from time
The shotgun is even more nerfed than the second game
The short moments where cortana is talking to you in your helmet really bothers with the pacing
Ending is not that great but its a good setup for Halo 4

Status: Finish the game saw the ending

Fun Factor: One of the great FPS of all time. Worth a playthrough

Lumines Remastered

Blocks blocks and more falling blocks.

Game no: 315
Genre: Puzzle
Platform: Nintendo Switch
Released Date: 2018 (Original PSP version 2004)



What is it about?
The objective is to clear all 4 blocks until you can't clear no more.

What I liked?
Each theme gives you different blocks with different music. Some are slow while some are fast. They provide a different strategy for clearing the blocks
vs mode is quite fun.

What I didn't liked?
Circles patterns are so confusing. It can make you lose focus

Status: Cleared vs mode, 100 level blocks

Fun Factor: Is a good game to release your stress