PSN Roundup: Sky Diving and Dark Mist Comments by Kristan Reed

Quality over Quantity!

The landing mode is ACES and well worth the £2.80 I paid.

"...it's only worth nothing..."

Freudian slip? ;D

Shame about sky Diving - thought the trailer looked cool!

"you control a warrior of the light, Artemis,"

Hey!!! i said no names dammit!!!

:-)

Oh dear.

It's on occasions like this that you curse Sony for not offering free trials of its PSN games, because this sounds quite tempting on the page but ultimately deserves to get tangled up in its chute and plummet into nothingness

And you wonder why they don't?

With a little more work Sky Diving could be good.

Landing mode is the only fun bit!

Any chance they might patch it to add different landing zones and wind?

Sky Diving was a nice original idea. Formation is really badly done but as others have said landing can be quite enjoyable.

I wouldn't brag about Skidiving, but it was fun for 2 hours or so, after that, it sucks, 3/10 fair? I'm glad I didn't have to give this a score!
I mean it doesen't deliver fully what we would want, but as mentioned, it has some neat and newish aspects!

Dark Mist = A take on a Geometry Wars shooter, hunting for a score.

To lack saving in that kind of a game does not sound strange.

If the formations wasn't completely motion sensing specific, particularly rotating in mid-air at least, I would've been happy of the whole game.

Just the landing part that's really enjoyable.

So sky diving is a load of chute?

"The right stick isn't utilised as the firing device, so directional fire is locked to whichever direction you're facing, which makes the business of taking out enemies more challenging than it might have been."

Uh, guys, you do realise there are two control schemes, right? The second one utilises the right stick for shooting, and I found the game a much, much more enjoyable experience as soon as I switched to it. It's essentially a free-roaming twin stick shooter, designed for score attacking in the same way as Geometry Wars or Super Stardust HD or any of the others. It seems to me the reviewer missed the point somewhat (and certainly missed the alternate control scheme).

i told ya that skydiving game would be crap =)

I wish I could get my money back on that skydiving game! it's load of utter rubbish! Its astounds me how I can get more enjoyment out of a 36mb title being 'Evryday Shooter' than this lump of crap that is skydiving!

No, didn't realise there was a second control system. That does make a small difference - might have been an idea for the game to have pointed that out to people.

so Dark Mist features real-time weapons change eh? I think the Cell is really coming into its own.

Ha ha ha, once again as expected reviewers trip over the motion sensing. Thank god this time I read some more favorable reviews elsewhere first.

This is actually quite a fun game, but I think it's by far the best as a party game as it supports up to 4 players on/offline, with a nice two against two teamplay that also sends some bonus attacks to each other with reversals and such. I got the hang of the motion sensing very quickly, and really any other way of controlling this game wouldn't have made any sense whatsoever.

In fact, for the money, I thought this game was pretty amazing value, even with all the saveable replays, online leadersboards, etc. etc. Also, the landing mode I thought was very clever, with using the analog sticks for pulling the wires to steer faster, just like the 'real thing'

It's not as good as Super Rub-a-Dub (billiant game, also reviewed rather erratically here and there), but it's close enough and some might like this more.

I completely missed Dark Mist though, may have to check that one out ... on the web, at least, at first.

Sigh. Can't you get some other people who do actually enjoy motion sensing to review motion sensing games?

So... it should be Jump Diving instead ?