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September 29, 2004

Games you should know about...

Well, today Justin gave me...the look. The look that says: why aren't you updating your blog!

The reason? When I'm not doing absurdly crazy things like writing my own soundtrack for my movie or doing freelance music work to earn a quick buck, I'm playing KATAMARI DAMACY (DAMASHII for you Japanese purists out there). If you have a PS2, get this game. Best 20 bucks you'll spend this year.

That is...if you can find it. As you can probably tell by the link, it's sold out. That's the way it is everywhere. Slashdot even linked me to this article from intrepid acquaintance Chris Kohler talking about how no one on the retail side of things accounted for how insanely popular this game would be at launch.

SO! If you need a game to play while waiting for KD to come out of backorder, check out ABA Games, where they have fantastic shooters and action games (all made by a single person, even) that are extremely fun (and difficult) and add all sort of neat tricks to what many consider a very tired genre. (I've been sitting on this website for more than a year now, and I'm still surprised that I didn't get any of the other guys in my classes in on this.) My personal favorite game would have to be one of the very latest, TUMIKI FIGHTERS, which lets you grab hold of the enemies that you shoot down and use their firepower to your benefit. There's a great balance of aggressiveness/defensiveness that plays into this, since the more things that stick on to you, the harder the game gets.

Everything else on the website is also worth checking out. Many of the games use something called BulletML... a markup language for describing bullet patterns! How cool is that?

Posted by diamante at September 29, 2004 09:13 PM

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