Drinkable Chicken

I love this game. It's basically a collection of small puzzles, disguised as an adventure. The charm of it is that you can pick it up at any time, solve a puzzle or two, and put it back down. Or at least you *could*... I find it very addictive. Some of the puzzles are well-known, like the pitcher puzzle, and a variant of the river-crossing puzzle, etc. Still, unless you do this sort of thing all the time, some of them can be quite challenging.

I like this sort of "brain exercises" better than the Brain Age type games... those tend to be focused on solving problems within a set time, which tends to really annoy me. :-)

This Nintendo DS game is the third in the Phoenix Wright series. As such, it's much the same as its two predecessors, and doesn't introduce much (or anything at all) in the way of new gameplay. In spite of that, I found it to be quite enjoyable.

The ongoing story of Phoenix & co moves ahead, sometimes in unexpected ways. Most of the well-known supporting characters are here again. We get to learn more about their past, and sometimes you even get to play them for a while (rather than Phoenix). Also: Phoenix has a love interest! :-) Or maybe two. In addition to that, there's the usual number of cases that seem impossible to solve at first glance, but turn out to make sense (well, sort of) as the game goes on.

Like the other two games, there are some minor nits that make gameplay somewhat less enjoyable than it could have been. Where some text adventures suffer from the "guess the verb" syndrome, PW sometimes suffers from "guess the correct piece of evidence"... or rather, presenting a piece of evidence at the exact point the makers of the game had in mind, even if there are other points where it would make sense to do so. Saving often helps, but is still annoying.

But overall, this game's highly recommended. It's too bad the Phoenix storyline seems to be over now. Fortunately it's not the end of the series; the next game will be Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney. ^_^ (Apparently it's already out; I haven't seen it anywhere yet.)

This is a cute little game for the PSP... much recommended, if you like odd/unusual games, that is.

The game is highly rhythm-based. You control a small army of "Patapon" (basically creatures that look like eyes on legs) by drumming certain rhythms. For example, at the beginning of the game, the circle button is associated with the sound "pon", and the square button with "pata" (hence the name of the game). Making your warriors advance is done by drumming the sound "pata-pata-pata-pon", and you can make them attack by using "pon-pon-pata-pon". As the game goes on, you get more rhythms and sounds, and gain special items.

I like this game... it reminds me a bit of Locoroco, even though they're completely different.

[Update: Here's a demo video.]