With Halloween lurking around the corner like Jason Voorhees at your
local summer camp, now is the perfect time to make an amazing costume,
find a bag big enough to store an entire neighbourhood’s worth of sweets
– and stay in all week playing games. (Did you know you can get
sweeties at
the shops now?) This week’s selection box includes a
fraction of frogs, a pinch of medieval shark, a peck of birdie, a
sliver of Snayke, and an innovative first-person-ish platform game.
Enjoy!
Play it online here.
This is not the weirdest thing you’ll see. Frog Fractions escalates brilliantly.
Go and play Frog Fractions right now. Seriously – right now. Don’t
stop to finish your coffee, put on pants, or complete that bowel
movement – click on the above link
immediately. Although it
seems like a simple fruit-catching game with edutainmenty qualities,
Frog Fractions soon becomes so much more. It took me an embarassingly
long time to work out how to afford the warp drive – which is where the
game begins in earnest – so I’m going to perform a public service and
spare you the trouble. To get the warp core, all you need to do is
[REDACTED]. Then [REDACTED] the [REDACTED] until the game [REDACTED
REDACTED REDACTED]. Bet you’re kicking yourself, right?
Play it online here.
NOT a medieval spinoff of the James Woods lawyer show Shark.
Rather than including Frog Fractions five-and-a-half times, I should
probably recommend some other games. Next on the list is Medieval Shark,
the latest military shooter from Activ… nah, it’s a score attack about a
medieval shark. A medieval shark with an executioner’s mask and axe,
because
games are amazing things. I love this. It’s the
equivalent of those films where a mega something meets a giant something
else, but for once it lives up to the brilliant title.
Play it online here.
If the bird bites too many fingers you’ll fall. What a fluffy little psychopath.
As good as that bit at the start of Cliffhanger was, it would have
been improved no end by an obnoxious bird pecking at the fingers of the
woman Sly Stallone was trying to save. No, Birdie, No! plays out like
that, but with a ledge instead of a length of rope, and no Sly ‘Don’t
call me Cooper’ Stallone. It’s still great, and tough, requiring a
dexterity I’m not exactly known for (I fell
up some stairs the
other week). Proof, if more were needed, that birds are evil, fluttering
jerks that resent mankind and everything we stand for.
Play it online here.
We’re looking forward to Snazzle 2: Snaykes… and Laddyers.
We told you about Snayke
the other week,
but the Snayke-insired Snazzle just might be better than the original,
and not just because it’s named ‘Snazzle’. It’s a turn-based version of
the above (which, in turn, is based on the game you probably played back
on an old mobile phone), with Spacechem-style movement arrows and a
lovely, fragile soundtrack. It’s pretty much the same game as Snayke,
but at a far more relaxed pace that my stupid brain has a better hope of
keeping up with. Plus, and this can’t be overstated, it’s called
Snazzle.
Play it online here.
Atum: the lighter way to enjoy platformers.
Sidescrolling platformers may have reached saturation point, but
sometimes all it takes for them to feel fresh again is a particularly
good gimmick – and Atum’s gimmick is particularly particularly good.
It’s a platformer as played by someone sitting at their computer; move
the mouse and you can look around your room. Things get smarter when you
realise you can interact with the game externally – for example, by
using your lighter to illuminate a gloomy area. This is something we’d
love to see expanded and refined.
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