Neopian games worth the sign up
Posted on March 13, 2007
In my last post about hanafuda, Phil dropped me a line about Go-Dori, the Neopets version of this Asian staple. Which led me to write a post about some of the very well-done casual games Neopets has to offer, even though you have to sign up first.
For those of you who managed to somehow ignore the Internet phenomenon that is Neopets, here’s a little background. The website itself is one big game. You raise cutesie virtual pets a la Tamagotchi, but, thankfully, they never die. You can raise their skill levels, open a store to sell items found around Neopia, participate in forums, and play games that earn you NeoPoints (the Neopian currency). Now that that’s out of the way, here are a few games that make the membership worthwhile.
Gadgadsgame – This puzzle game is similar to Super Puzzle Fighter, the best puzzle game ever released for any console. Ever. Or something. Anyhow, the object is to match up same type fruits with each other, so that they make larger fruits. However, the only way to make the fruits go away is a bomb that matches each fruit. To get even more points, connect as many fruits as possible before you detonate them. The one quibble I have with this excellently done in-your-browser version is that bombs don’t come out as often as one would like, so you may have a window full of fruits before you even get one bomb.
The Castle of Elive Thade – This anagram game will, inevitably, beat you down with a stick. Unless you’re good at the word jumble thing. You play a bunny-like creature (called, in the Neopian world,an Usul) that needs to find his way through the castle. In order to do so, you must move around by clicking on blocks. The further away you are from a certain block, the longer the word you need to unscramble is. Not only do you have to get from the beginning to the end,but you also need to find your way to different rooms that has different treasures. Fear not, those of you who always need some help on these type of games, there is a hint system and two different difficulty levels.
Go! Go! Go! — This is actually an Internet incarnation of the card game F.U., which does stand for what it sounds like it stands for. The game is simple, frustrating, and addictive. But you should probably read the rules before you The caveat of this particular game is that it’s been on the Neopets site for a while, so it isn’t flash based. Actually, it seems to be HTML based, so there are a lot of page loads going on. If you can’t stand that kind of thing, or just don’t have the patience for it, you should skip this one.
Those are three games that I enjoy playing, and I think are enough to lure other people into the Neopets world. What games do you like to play?
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Wii: First Impressions
Posted on March 9, 2007
Yes, I’m months behind the actual Wii release, and all of the uber-cool people managed to play with it first. But since I did get to play with my aunty’s new Wii yesterday and today, I felt like I absolutely had to write about it.
First of all, my dad actually played. Which, to be fair, is sort of the same idea with the gray gamers. Except that he’s not particularly old. It’s just that the only game he ever plays is Tetris, so getting him to play WiiSports is something, I’d say.
Wii Sports is as fun as you make it. Yes, I didn’t have to flail my arms about in Tennis nor did I actually have to hold the Wii Remote like a bat in baseball, but it made the game more fun. Little dinky wrist movements don’t really mean much, anyway, if you want to get something out of the experience. Of course, actually pretending as if I was hitting a tennis racket hurt my shoulder. Yes, I’m a little wimp.
Oh, and my grandmother beat me at baseball. That was a little disheartening.
My aunty also bought Wii Play, although I think she did so more for the controller than anything else. Wii Play wasn’t nearly as fun as Wii Sports. Actually, it seems to be a glorified “show off the Wii Remote” demo game than anything else. It is comprised of mini games that show you how to use the remote in all possible angles, basically. Nothing more interesting than that.
I can’t wait to play Twilight Princess on the Wii, but I guess that will have to wait until I return home for summer break.
(I will return you to your regularly scheduled programming on Monday.)
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Carnival of Gamers is up!
Posted on March 4, 2007
The Carnival of Gamers is up at Virgin Worlds. There are some neat things happening there. Also, I’m sorry to my regular readers, but there are some family problems, so I won’t be back for another week.
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