Whispering Willows - Fright Night on the Ouya Bus

Whispering Willows is a rather odd title. Not because of its genre, adventure games are not exactly a rarity after all and nor is it because of the theme of the game, horror being a rather frequent popup title on the likes of Steam. Instead its odd because of its origins, being released originally as a Ouya title, then ported across to the PC because it wasn't making a bit of money there. I call it odd simply because the Ouya presence still seeps within the game itself... This isn't exactly a bad thing however...

I say that because if there is one thing that the Ouya did try and be a beacon for was for original gaming, games that usually wouldn't have been given a second look on more traditional platforms such as baby hiding simulators, couch-multiplayer arena games (something that's having a resurgence it seems across consoles and PC) and then there's this.

Type:Rider - Flipping the Script Around

Type:Rider is an odd little concept of a game. Made by a Franco-German TV group that pushes art and design above most else, there's this game, a platformer created to try and teach players about typefaces and text techniques throughout the ages. Its definitely a tall and rather obscure idea to try out but is it one that actually works?

Ratchet and Clank 2 - The Sophomore Slump

With the first Ratchet and Clank game out of the way, its straight over to the second one and with that I quickly realized why, when people talk about how they loved the original games, they usually talk exclusively about the first or third game. Yeah this one isn't great.

Ratchet and Clank - Back to the Beginning

Recently theres been the release of Ratchet and Clank, a remake of the original Ps2 title, released onto the Ps4 in line with a (quite derided) movie and after watching some friends play through this, it got me thinking and wanting to play the original trilogy through again and then maybe even continue onto the Ratchet and Clank titles I haven't tried out. So with this in mind, I went forth to play the Ps3 versions of the games as they were on sale at the time, what did I find?

Papo & Yo - My Froggy Favela

The Playstation Plus 'Instant Games Collection' is a bit of a weird area with a rather combustible membership group. It seems like everyone waits near the end of each month for information on whats going to be free with Playstation Plus next, all making outlandish predictions and then when news of the games finally does arrive, its followed by a comment wave of 'OH MY GOD. RUBBISH INDIES' by childish members which causes certain titles to be lost in the discussion and Papo & Yo sadly seemed to be one of these lost titles. Its a bit of a shame that this is the case as this title fits the Playstation Plus collection to a tee... which is both a good and bad thing at exactly the same time...

Bird Assassin - Braindead Birdbrains

Bird Assassin is one of the many games which fled the 'XBLA' service to try and find sales on PC. In fact there's quite a few of these trying to compete to get into steam but somehow this one managed to worm its way across onto steam and sadly it isn't a good one. The entire game first off feels cheap and nasty thanks to a really limited graphics set and Xbox button inputs spread across the screens without any regard to what control you are actually using.

Zooloretto - Im Board Now

Here's the thing, not everything works well when you transfer things over, not all films for example can work as books, not all books translated well when you turn them into tv shows and on that note, not all board games work well as video games. Zooloretto is a key example of this in action.