"The Official PSP Minis thread."

Yup. Good job too.

Bought Tetris tonight.

Original tunes remixed FTW.

Good stuff.

Another iphone port upcoming, could also be a minis title.

Elemental Monster TD

Hmm, looks like it could be good.

Field Runners is superb. I found myself torn between this and Pixel Junk Monsters, but in the end youtube videos told me FR was the faster more accessible tower defence game.

For £4, it definitely delivered on my expectations.

Ah but PJM has online co -op!

Do you have PJM jonsaan? I haven't tried the online out yet...

No Murbal. only on PS3. It's a great game. I may pick it up at some point. I heard the dancing to upgrade is much quicker on the psp.

btw. YetiSports looks to have quite a bit more to it thatn the flash game, I mean there are levels and stuff. There are iphone reviews out there.

It still looks shit, but I don't think it's quite as bad as we thought.

Edited by jonsaan at 16:27:12 16-10-2009

Man, breakquest is prone to crashing. that's twice now.

jonsaan wrote:
No Murbal. only on PS3. It's a great game. I may pick it up at some point. I heard the dancing to upgrade is much quicker on the psp.

Not really that much quicker...

jonsaan wrote:
Man, breakquest is prone to crashing. that's twice now.

Not on the PSPgo...

Its official, PSP phat, slim and bright can't handle Minis...

;)

Whatsfor wrote:

jonsaan wrote:
No Murbal. only on PS3. It's a great game. I may pick it up at some point. I heard the dancing to upgrade is much quicker on the psp.

Not really that much quicker...

possibly quicker in casual mode? haven't noticed it at all, nearly completed hardcore.

Yeah, I play hardcore too...

jonsaan wrote:
Puzzle Scape.

being a sucker for block busting shennanigans I took the plunge. Very good indeed IMO.

Think Koloomns crossed with Lumines and a sprinkling of every extend extra for the visuals.

Each scene has a set amount of time during which the game throws objectives at you. For instance 1 * 15 red combo or 3 * 4 white. It's fun and nicely polished. I like.

Decided that after 60 attempts at the last secret boss in Dissidia - and failing, leading to a hurt finger when I hit the PSP :p - I've decided to give this a go.

I hope it's worth it :p.

OK...

Puzzle Scape

Good: Nice music, nice backgrounds, nice gameplay. It's nice.

Bad: Might be just me but I hold x to fast move a block and it stays where it is half the time. Hurts my eyes (probably me getting old).

7.5/10

Sudoku (Yes, I know)

Good: It's Sudoku. Though with the added bonus of allowing you to play your music while you work on those brain muscles. Perfect if you want to do both at once. Controls are fine after a few seconds.

Bad: It's Sudoku. The music chooser can't recognise any more than a single folder down from the music folder and can't recognise certain characters. Putting the PSP to sleep while playing music from your collection will cause it to stop and will not restart from where you left off (it can just be re-chosen again). Icons are confusing at first.

Score:

a. Marks out of 6 on how much you like Sudoku.
b. Marks out of 4 on how much you want custom soundtracks while playing.
c. Deduct marks based on your tolerance for the bad points.

Add a, b and c together.

I get 8/10.

HiddenAway wrote:
Score:

a. Marks out of 6 on how much you like Sudoku.
b. Marks out of 4 on how much you want custom soundtracks while playing.
c. Deduct marks based on your tolerance for the bad points.

Add a, b and c together.

I get 8/10.

:)

You know something, I wish a lot of reviews would use your "formula" approach to scores. Would prevent a lot of fanboy debate. Seriously, this way to rate the game was really clever.

I think you like Sudoku :)

SeesThroughAll wrote:

HiddenAway wrote:
Score:

a. Marks out of 6 on how much you like Sudoku.
b. Marks out of 4 on how much you want custom soundtracks while playing.
c. Deduct marks based on your tolerance for the bad points.

Add a, b and c together.

I get 8/10.

:)

You know something, I wish a lot of reviews would use your "formula" approach to scores. Would prevent a lot of fanboy debate. Seriously, this way to rate the game was really clever.

Well, this is the proper way to do it. This way you can generate your own scores and forget all the arguments :p

I WILL CLEANSE THE INTERNET!

In all seriousness though, this was really the only way I can review it. It's Sudoku. You love it or hate it.

/patents

disc wrote:
I think you like Sudoku :)

Guilty as charged :-). The soundtracks thing does let it down a bit (seeing as I have loads of music with Japanese characters) so I have a reduced palette of music :-(

Edited by HiddenAway at 23:23:06 22-10-2009

Playing Red Bull X-Fighters at the mo, sort of Trials HD for the PSP. Pretty hard but immense fun.

Ultimate board games also has sodoku with custom soundtracks and backgrounds too. As well as a rather awesome dice game. everything else on it is a tad meh, but not too bad.

Zombie Tycoon is now out for your Halloween gaming pleasure (£3.99).

Picked up Red Bull X-Fighters at random and it's surprisingly enjoyable. The gameplay is simple but addictive and it's very well polished (full stats, achievements and unlockables included).

You'll certainly get a few hours of fun out of it, so it's worth the price of a pint, I'd say.

Spot the Differences is now out for your enjoyment at the low price of £2.49.

Anyone take the plunge on Zombie Tycoon?
I'm going to be spending a week living out of a B&B with only my DS and PSP for company, so a new game would be nice. Metacritic reviews are mixed though.

Anyone?............

Yesterday was payday, and I was stuck in a B&B with little to do and even less to spend money on, so I bought a couple Minis. Bubble Trubble and Spot the Difference.
Thanks to the B&B's wireless connection being a bit shit I only got BT downloaded and its.... a bit pants.

The Good:
Its sort of original-ish. well at least its not falling blocks, and it has a sort of physics-y element to it.
Decent number of challenges, some of which force you to play in totally new ways.
Presentation is passable and it basically runs ok.

BAD:
Presentation is ONLY passable. Its not in danger of being good.
Gameplay can become random and skilless at times. Things go too fast to think about, but it also throws in loads of 'lifelines' so surviving/scoring just feels like luck.
The game does not save your progress or scores. I'll type that one again in caps so you dont miss it.
THE GAME DOES NOT SAVE YOUR PROGRESS OR SCORES.

Fucking hell Creat, get it togeather will you. This isnt 1986 y'know.

I'll get to Spot the Difference whenever I can.

Spot the Difference!!
When I bought this, I figured it would be one of those games where the concept was so amazingly simple and hard to mess up, that they probably would have anyway.
But guess what, they didnt! Fancy that.
So what we have here is a game that does exactly what it says on the tin. Loads of images, each with 5 differences to spot. All of the images are nicely shot photograps (meaning they look professional, not some bollocks shot by your sister while on holiday), bits of which have been photoshopped to varying degrees of skill. Both images are displayed side-by-side, you move the cursor around the screen and click on where the difference is. Each level has a timer, and you have a number of 'hints' that recharge over time. You go though images in batches of five, after that a new round unlocks, and the ones you have cleared are saved. YES THE GAME ACTUALLY BOTHERS TO SAVE YOUR PROGRESS. YOU LISTENING CREAT? (doubt it, they dont post here).

Its super-casual. If you really like some difference-spotting its fine, its fairly cheap (£2.50 I think) and its a nice timewaster.

Looks like one of the next games will be a football management sim...

London Blues lol

It's IDracula!!!! I have that on ipod touch. It looks exactly the same.