Use your zombie powers to unlock the mystery of your history. - me
Sonny is another turned based role-playing game, but this time with a storyline! The game play in Sonny is heavily inspired by traditional JRPGs, and unsurprisingly the combat plays a lot like the Final Fantasy combat system. Sonny is also currently the most popular flash RPG alongside Monster’s Den.
In Sonny you play as a zombie brought back to life, but lacking all your memories (tis a plot device). The game’s plot slowly unfolds as you progress, although linear and short it has a surprisingly good plot line, including fully voiced dialog.
Sonny has extremely high production values for a flash game, although I did a few a quibbles with it; there isn’t enough difference between the items, cheating, and the game could have been longer. Although all in all it’s definitely a game worth checking out.
Casualty Tips:
Also as mentioned before, it’s quite easy to cheat in Sonny…
Once in the game:
- Go to your inventory
- Select any weapon/armor in your inventory
- Click the options button (ensure the weapon is your cursor)
- Then click the Red background around the options menu.
Your cursor will revert back to normal and you’ll have all the stats added for whatever item you selected.
To start of the weekly Retro features here are the top 5 best NES RPGs to be released.
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Music Catch
Music Catch caught me a bit off guard, mainly because the preview picture didn’t catch my interest. However after playing the game I agree with the masses; this is a very nice game.
The goal of the game is to catch as many green and golden notes as possible while avoiding the reds one. The notes are released in time with the music, e.g when the music is quiet the game is easy but as the music picks up tempo and volume more and more notes pour out.
Although the game only has one level it is still definitely a unique and fun game.
The song featured in Music Catch has now been released for download, “Before Dawn” by Isaac Shepard, get it!
Rating:
Definitely worth a look
For those of us on a tight budget, here are the top 8 best stand alone Steam games for less then $10.
8. Bullet Candy ($3.99)
“Bullet Candy is a fast paced, action packed shooter. Viewed from a top-down perspective, Bullet Candy allows for a true 360° shoot-em-up experience. With all of your enemies in view at all times it’s easy to see and, more importantly, shoot them into tiny little pieces.” – Steam Description
Bullet Candy is a very tidy Indie game, reminiscent and most likely inspired by Geometry wars. My only negative is that you are defaulted to firing all the time, although it makes the game unique I prefer choosing when I want to fire.
Although at only $3.99 it’s definitely worth a look.
Bullet Candy @ Steam
7. Geometry Wars ($3.99)
“Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is a old school style shooter, but remixed for the 21st century with next generation graphics and deep, modern gameplay. Playing is simple: you are a geometric “ship” trapped in a grid world, facing off against waves of deadly wanderers, snakes, and repulsars. Your aim is to survive long enough to set a high score!” – Steam Description
Originally a mini-game in Project Gotham Racing now Geometry Wars has spawned its own franchise with a spin-off already released and a sequel on the way.
It’s an extremely simple game; destroy anything that moves and don’t die, yet it is done in such a smoothly stylistic manner with vibrant graphics that it keeps calling you back to play more.
And again at only $3.99 it’s a bargain.
Geometry Wars @ Steam
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Monster’s Den: Book of Dread is a ‘flash turn based strategy team dungeon crawl RPG’(phew…), which seems heavily inspired by Dungeons and Dragons.
When you start Monster’s Den you make a team of 4 characters to assault the dungeons with. You can choose between 7 different fantasy classes for your characters, the Warrior, Rogue, Conjurer, Barbarian, Ranger, Cleric or Mage. As you descend into the dungeon your characters level up, learn new skills and find new equipment.
Item collection is similar to World of Warcraft, where you have standard, uncommon, rare and legendary (rarity of each in order), you can also go to a vendor to sell looted items and purchase new goods.
There are three campaigns to pick from, two standard dungeons and a survival campaign, in the survival campaign you have to fight an almost infinite amount of enemies to see how long you can survive.
Monster’s Den is a highly addictive game and very polished, it’s very easy to get caught up in the game and continuously just want to do one more level, then one more, then another one.
My only disappointment was the lacking storyline, as although you can go indefinitely deeper and deeper into the dungeon the storyline finishes after level 10 on both campaigns.
Casualty Tips:
- Make sure you set your flash storage area to maximum, otherwise it may chug.
- Having a cleric paired with a conjurer is extremely useful at the deeper levels.
- Survival, make sure you have a ranger in your team with Nature’s Balm + Speed Increase, as once cast they carry on for every wave.
/Off to do one more level.
Got time to waste? Tower Defense is any easy way to waste it, here is a list of my personal favourite Tower Defense games.
5. Bloons Tower Defense
In Bloons Tower Defense stop the 50 waves of baloons using monkeys welding either darts, cannons or a freeze ray, save up for the Super Monkey to unleash a fury of darts.
Recently Version 2 has been released with extra turret types and upgrades.
4. Random Defense
In Random Defense build up a defense to stop ‘random’ creeps from getting to the finish line.
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Ikariam is a free online realtime strategy game released in 2008 by Gameforge AG. The concept behind Ikariam is much like Sid Meier’s well-known Civilization games, where players command a small village and construct buildings such as Barracks, Ports, and Taverns to create a larger city, and palaces which are constructed to allow for the expansion of a small empire. Unlike other online browser games, Ikariam has a greater emphasis on trade and diplomacy but does also feature combat. It is impossible for a colony to be completely captured by another player, but it can still be pillaged, controlled, or blockaded. (wiki)
[/Personal-Experience] Ikariam is still in beta (maybe alpha?), it’s still missing a lot of content and it has numerous bugs, yet it still has very solid gameplay. Build times and research times in Ikariam are quite lengthy and trading rather then combat is emphasized, hence it’s a very good game if you like games that are a bit more casual and you don’t like having to check your browser every hour.
Travian was originally a German browser-based game developed by Travian Games GmbH. The game’s developers drew roughly from Classical antiquity and particularly from the Roman Empire to create a predominantly militaristic real-time strategy. Read more… »
As an off shoot of my blog I decided to make a blog dedicated to Gaming, content will mainly be lists, humorous gaming content and maybe an occasional review.
Next few posts will be copies of posts from MangaTower
