Meteos, XBLA and the DS in general.

The DS is dogshit. It's a lovely bit of kit, yes and it lets you play GBA games (Rock N Roll Racing for the nostalgic win) but the games are mostly fuck awful.

DS GAMES = cack.
REASON = all DS games seem to fall into these categories.


1. Brain games. Fucking pointless dogshit that assigns and arbitrary number to you and says that's how thick a twat you are. Made worse by the fact that the best one doesn't understand the word 'blue' or the number four.

2. 3D games. Fuck me... the DS can't do 3D any more convincingly than an Amiga yet they keep doing these lazy ports of games that aren't even good on the PSP.

3. My First Barbie Horse Bratz Simulators. I don't even know what they are but they sell to eight year old American girls and there are a billion of them on the system.

4. Puzzle games. Some good, some bad. Usually ruined by inappropriate controls.


To be honest, the only game that really held my attention was Meteos, a standard 'connect three' puzzler from the bloke who did Rez and Lumines (does Lumines have any actual point to it?).

Dunno why but I loved it. It had an old-school addictiveness that I hadn't seen since Clockwiser on the Amiga (game of win).

Meteos Wars on XBLA

Now it's out on XBLA sans touch controls. Does it still work? Yeah, kind of. Unfortunately the game is still incredibly fast and tricky and they don't really give you a break because of the controls so it's all a bit upsetting really. Is good though and has a fair bit of stuff to unlock I think.

Full review this sunday on PEOWW. It could get an 8 or a 2 at this rate though.