Review – The Blackwell Convergence (PC)

Review – The Blackwell Convergence (PC)

Wadjet Eye Games | July 22, 2009 So the last Adventure title I tried, Runaway, was kind of a convoluted guess fest that required the use of a guide to complete.  Blackwell Convergence was, fortunately, quite a different story.  This is the third in a series of games following Rosangela Blackwell and her spirit companion Joey Mallone.  Rose is able to communicate with spirits and her and Joey work to help displaced spirits move on from the locations they haunt.  It is presented through your standard Adventure Games format of static scenes with animated characters and various interactions and dialogues.…
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Review – Runaway: A Road Adventure (PC)

Péndulo Studios, S.L. | August 28, 2003 So Adventure Games are a bit different than your other game genres.  You often can’t lose and the emphasis is more on the narrative than the “gameplay”.  It’s much closer to being like an interactive novel.  That said, the story can make or break an adventure game easily.  I’ve done a bit of history already here on my plans for upping my intake of Adventure Games.  No need to cover that ground again.  Runaway was the first title I chose in this push, it’s a title I’ve been sitting on for a fairly…
Review – Who’s That Flying?! (PC)

Review – Who’s That Flying?! (PC)

Mediatonic | Jan 31, 2011 Earth is under attack by aliens from another dimension!  Who can protect it?  Why, the Defender of Earth!  But why did he let them get to Earth in the first place?  Well, he’s on trial to find out. Who’s That Flying!? has the player take control of the defender of Earth as he recounts his exploits in defending Earth from evil invaders to a trial of his peers.  His peers being, the Defenders of the other planets.  For the most part, the trial dialogue though is between Jupiter, who serves as the Judge, Earth, defending…
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Review – Faerie Solitaire (PC)

Subsoap | 03.15.2009 Solitaire is a game that has like 500 zillion variations.  In fact, Solitaire is more of a genre of card game played alone than a type of game itself.  Faerie Solitaire, as far as I know, isn’t based on a previous “classic” style of Solitaire, but then, the reference material surrounding this game isn’t real plentiful.  It certainly isn’t the standard 7 piles, flip 3, collect Ace through King solitaire. The basic card game works as follows, cards are laid out on the playing field in various patterns and the player gets a small stack to flip…
Review – Safecracker (PC)

Review – Safecracker (PC)

Kheops Studio | Aug 2, 2006 Steam’s Daily specials are just fill of interesting little surprises.  Safecracker is one of those surprises.  It’s pretty straight forward in it’s story and presentation.  You’ve been hired by a family to find the will of their recently deceased relative.  The catch is that the late Duncan W. Adams was eccentric and wealthy and obsessed with safes. So much so that essentially, the entire home is a puzzle.  Never mind that either this guy knew he was about to die and had all of this set up before hand or he liked to open…