Tiny Frog Software

Twinsens Odyssey (Little Big Adventure 2)

I have this thing for quirky odd games, and Twinsens Oddessy is certainly quirky. It’s kind of an action adventure game about a boy and his ball, on a quest to save his girlfriend.

The art style is a mash-up of isometric interiors and 3rd person perspective outside areas. Many of the characters you meet are humaniod-animal creatures and to be honest I can’t decide if it takes place in a fantasy world or a science fiction one.

Want Little Big Adventure 3 please!

Phantasy Star

A couple weeks back I purchased the Sega Megadrive collection for my PS2 and its got Phantasy Star II, III and IV on the disc.

These games were freaking expensive when they first came out, as they took up more than 2x the amount of memory on the cartridge compared to other titles at the time.

The games are best described as Sega’s answer to the Final Fantasy games. Phantasy Star is an RPG series that spans many millenia of the Algol solar system. Its a J-RPG at its finest, before the genre decided they wanted to make 40 hour movies instead of games.

We need another Phantasy Star game, and I’m not talking about this Phantasy Star Online business. Incidentally Phantasy Star I and II have been remade for the PS2, and they look amazing. Unfortunately the games are only avalible in Japanese.

Gateway

Gateway and Gateway II homeworld are text adventure games with pictures based on Science-Fiction author Frederick Phol’s series of novels of the same name.

Gateway II was probably the first text adventure game I played seriously, probably back in ’95 or so. The story and the puzzles are first class and unlike alot of adventure games, things actually make sense. You don’t have to keep guessing what the designer was thinking of when they designed some of the puzzles.

I’ve been meaning to pick up the Gateway novels for a while now.

Streets of Rage

Ah, beat ‘em ups. What more can I say, lots of enemies and cool moves to kick their collective asses. Give me another Streets of Rage. If I had a 360 I could probably get Castle Crashers for my beat ‘em up fix. But for now, I’ll just pine for another Streets of Rage.

Moonstone

Moonstone is one of the most bloody and violent games I have ever played – The pixel art is fantastic and the game can only be described as a blood fest. You play one of four knights on a quest to do… something – I honestly can’t remember, but I think it involved a dragon? Anyway, it kicked ass.