Someone said EvilQuest lets you save and reload even in the trial. The music quality in EvilQuest is a little bit all over the place, the artwork is kind of like that too, that the intro is a little too long would have been good feedback for the devs. (They have a "skip intro?" thing but who would skip it...) The game has some serious effort put into it and it's more unique than the RPG Maker style games.
Hitoshi you are awesome. I went on a little bit of a buying spree too because I cashed in some Bing Rewards points and don't see much on XBLA that interests me right now (and felt like shopping
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My pick ups:
Johnny Platform's Biscuit Romp - short and sweet, sound fx are kind of the funny "dev speaks into a mic" type, similar gameplay to Apple Jack.
Ophidian Wars: Opac's Journey - Kind of picked this because it was appearing in Picks, I like the Metroid style exploration, only played for 15 mins or until you get your big first upgrade (glider wings). Technically Grand Theft Froot does this style of game better. If you are a total Metroidvania maniac you might check it out.
REVOLVER360 - Medals, two modes, etc...probably would have been worth $3 but now it's $1 (I guess he was happy about limit increase, game is 62MB so didn't fit in previous 80pt limit)
Rainbow Rapture - Kind of picked this one up after seeing someone tweeting about it, my wife likes Tiny Wings clones and this one seems cute. I think the way challenges are setup is strange and it doesn't seem to have P2P leaderboards.
Lots of Guns - Like another said this game is pretty simple, I don't know how much I will go back to it
Lexiv - See above
I, Zombie - This game, like Oozi by the same devs, frustrates the heck out of me. It's so beautiful, the music is awesome, and yet it misses the point of a casual game by being way too hard. That said, it's good, I just think the difficulty will limit the # of people who buy it. Oozi is not too hard it just lacks some sort of depth while being so frustratingly close to being face melting awesome.
Trailer Park King Episode 2 - Well this got me chuckling even in the trial so it got my $1. I kind of think Freelance Games should push the adventure game aspect of this rather than borderline N17 visual comic, if it's thought of as adventure game people might give it higher ratings. I worry that bitter competing devs are giving it 1 star as is, I mean, gamers aren't likely to all go in and give it low ratings on the day it comes out, I really hope devs aren't doing crap like that
It's racy but higher quality than the other games of similar style and voice acting of girls is cute to say the least
EvilQuest - See above...basically don't go in expecting XBLA style game or something, expect something created with hand and love and appreciate it for what it is.
Antipole - Pretty simplistic graphics but gameplay is solid, gets interesting after you start using the gravity changer.
