http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2006 by the authors Thu, 2 Nov 2006 18:54:13 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/04/01/073015.php#comment-472736 This is actually the only original (OK, it was a PC title before, but I mean it didn't come out on an Atari or Genesis first) XBLA game that I liked the demo of. A little pricey for what it is, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. To me it actually has a high level of replay value too due to the time challenges. Very fun game, no complaints about text size or lack of flexibility. One of the few Marketplace items I would suggest buying. 472736@blogcritics.org Thu, 2 Nov 2006 18:54:13 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/04/01/073015.php#comment-345026 This is one of those XBLA games that does give you downloadable content. Not to mention FREE levels, not just the for-pay ones. That was a nice comment by Steve Taylor, as I had missed any options to change the text size. 345026@blogcritics.org Mon, 3 Apr 2006 03:59:22 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/04/01/073015.php#comment-344627 My daughter and wife both love this game, so we had to buy it. Then they had to teach me how to play. I like it. Simple, fun, and a game you can play with your kids. If Oblivion wasn't sucking up all my time, I would be playing this one even more. Also, don't forget all the downloadable content. 344627@blogcritics.org Sun, 2 Apr 2006 09:11:36 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/04/01/073015.php#comment-344605 Hi. Thanks for the review. I'm sorry you were disappointed with the game, but I'm grateful to hear your opinion about it! I hope you don't mind a couple of quick comments: If you have the chance to play some of the later levels or separate challenges (such as the Survival levels), I think you might find a bit more strategy involved, but I understand that you have other games to play. These levels still fall within the constraints of the game system, of course, so they may not affect your opinion. The text size was an interesting problem and we actually spent a lot of time working on it. It's a text-heavy game, and fitting everything on the screen was not easy. If you happen to be playing the game in high definition, you can scale the UI up and down to your liking in the Options screen. Naturally, this is not very helpful for people playing in normal TV resolution... :) Thanks, -- Steve Taylor -- NinjaBee 344605@blogcritics.org Sun, 2 Apr 2006 04:22:40 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/04/01/073015.php#comment-344565 This game seemed like there was a lot of strategy in later levels, especially if you want to make the gold times. Did you play a lot of levels and still feel like it lacked strategy? There also seem to be a lot of gamer points evenly spaced throughout the levels. You could easily pick up more than 20 :) 344565@blogcritics.org Sun, 2 Apr 2006 00:06:45 EST