The most interesting Simple 2000 titles all start with a great concept. Volume 95, The Zombie vs. Ambulance (say that title to yourself, out loud), has that in spades, but is a concept enough to carry a game? You control the last doctor alive in a city that’s been overrun by zombies. Ignoring the pleas […]
Let’s get this out of the way right now: even though The Helicopter features a radio-controlled helicopter, it is not in any sort of competition with Shiny’s RC Stunt Copter. It doesn’t remotely aspire to that game’s level of simulation, and it won’t appeal to anybody expecting an extremely accurate flight model. What this is […]
My copy of Oneechanbara 2 arrived the day before yesterday. I’ve only played it briefly, but enough to give some impressions. Really, it’s the same thing as the first game, but better-executed. It looks and feels much, much better. Like Oneechanbara, most of the effort was clearly spent on making the characters appealing and fun […]
So, as for what I’ve been playing lately: lots of things, but I’ll not get ahead of myself. I decided to take a risk on The Earth Defense Force 2 (The Chikyuu Boeigun 2), the sequel to perhaps the best-regarded original Simple 2000 series game so far. And at this point, it’s definitely the best […]
D3 Publisher are honest about their design and business goals: they produce budget-priced software that takes a simple concept – often one already established by full-priced games – and build a game around it that conforms to their very limited production budgets and schedules. Other times their concepts are original and experimental (something the nature […]