Pac-Man? Paaaaaac-Maaaaaan!!!!

I like Pac-Man… a lot actually. It’s one of my favorite classic arcade games that I love to get my hands on whenever I have the chance to. Besides a few other acrade games, I used to spend my quarters on Ms. Pac-Man games whenever my parents would go do their usual bowling games on Sundays. I’m fairly confident that I don’t need to explain to viewers what exactly Pac-Man/Ms. Pac-Man are about. If you don’t know the game by now, you’re a hopeless individual… I mean, today’s freshmen believed that Kurt Cobain has been dead for many, many years… That’s sad.

I recently got my hands on the Championship edition for the PlaystationPlus that my boyfriend downloaded the other day. As soon as I began playing it, I was like, “I seriously need to get this game… like right now.” So I did. It’s downloading as I type this. It’s a completely different style of playing, but it’s the same game… However, a few things are different. So, you have a larger field, and you have to complete one side of the field in order to complete the other side as well. You advance to the next puzzle-like in the field by collecting the fruit… other times it’s clovers, hearts, diamonds… Pac-Man can really eat basically anything his stomach desires… That is if he has a stomach.

There’s also different styles of playing the level, such as a time attack mode where you have to complete a series of puzzles in under a minute. Ghost Combo where you’re trying to see how many ghosts you can eat within a certain time limit.

Speaking about these ghosts, there’s a reason why I made a Metal Gear Solid reference in my title. These are not your ordinary ghosts. There are ghosts planted in the field that are sleeping, you also have the ordinary pink, blue, red, and orange ghosts chasing you around. But the sleeping ghosts are different. These guys stay sleeping unless you pass them. If you just pass them the first time, the first ghost that awakes starts chasing you and will not stop chasing you unless you get the power-up. However, if you pass more sleeping ghosts, they will awake and join in the line of ghosts that are following you. The more ghosts you awake, the more that gets added to the chain of ghosts. Which is really funny because if you get a power-up, hellow 3200 consecutive points per each ghost to eat after you reach that amount in the score. I thought that this was hysterical because I’m racking points up like crazy.

What is also interesting to note is what happens when you get near a ghost. You see, you can pass a ghost quite easily while they’re sleeping. But when you get to a ghost that’s up and chasing you, get close to them, and some matrix-like scene happens where you’re slowling inching closer to them unless you make some last-second chance move to avoid getting killed. I like that feature, because it totally helps.

You also have bombs that you carry throughout the levels. These bombs help bounce back the ghosts back into the box for a mere second if you come across a point where there’s no way of getting out without losing a life. However, this does effect your game. During a certain point of the game, your speed increases. If you lose a life or use a bomb, your speed decreases. So, there’s a good reason to use the bomb, and then there’s a bad reason to use your bomb. You can only reach up to speed 50, and despite it being a very fast speed, it’s still manageable.

I’d say if you have PlaystationPlus, download this game. It’s really, REALLY worth the download.

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I'm A Ninja

Ninja Fruit, in my opinion, is far more addicting than Angry Birds. I have it on my Android and I've been finding myself trying to out beat my arcade score of 840. The game is truly addicting and I'm more satisfied with this game because it hardly ever needs an update.

The whole point of this game is to use your finger as a sword and slice as many fruit as possible. When you slice more than one fruit in one swipe, you get a combo. The most I've gotten was a 10 combo, and that was with thanks with specials that caused so many fruit to fly all over the screen. I'll talk about that later. Two of the three modes have bombs in them too. Classic Mode has it where if you swipe at a bomb, the game is over. In Arcade Mode, if you swipe at a bomb, you get 10 points deducted.

There's three modes, Classic, Arcade, and Zen. Classic mode goes by very slow. You're supposed to swipe at all of the fruit that appears on the screen while trying to avoid the bombs as well as making sure none of the fruit falls off the screen. You have three strikes if you let them fall, after the third one, game is over. And as stated before, if you hit a bomb, it's game over too. The most I've gotten was over 600... By the time you get further and further into the mode, the game gets trickier with the fruit and bombs flying up everywhere as well as having them come up really fast. You also have a chance to redeem a strike by going after a Pomegranate. These fruits are huge and shine with a sparkling pink glow. You swipe at these as many times before time's up and it explodes. How many times you swiped at it is how many points are added to your score. Oh, you also have a Dragon Fruit flying in every once and a while, a rare fruit that gives you 50 points.

Arcade mode is where all the fun is at, at least from my perspective. You have 60 seconds to score the most points, and the bananas are used as specials. The blue and green stripped banana gives you a few seconds to double your score. How many fruit you attack, it adds up. Doing combos and getting blitz makes your score go higher and higher. After a few seconds, how many points you got during this gets added to your score. A red and yellow stripped banana is a frenzy banana. This throws out a lot of fruit for you to go after. It's preferred that you swipe your finger in a long, back and forth motion to get more combos and more fruit. And last but not least, there's the frozen banana that not only freezes the time, but it also slows down every bomb and fruit on the screen. It helps when you have this and a frenzy fruit going on together to get the most fruit combos and such... This is how I got that 10 fruit combo! As stated before with the bombs, every bomb that you hit, it deducts 10 points from your score. But if you somehow hit a lot of bombs during the 60 seconds, you actually get a bonus at the end called "Bomb Lover" which adds 50 points back to your score. Yeah, you get these random bonuses at the end, ranging from 5-50. It depends on what you did during the game. Did you hit more than one frozen banana? Did you get an insane amount of combos? Towards the very end of the match, you get the Pomegranate again to swipe at.

Zen mode is a 1:30 second match with no bombs, no specials, just aim to get the most points with the fruits. You don't get the Pomegranate either. It's just a swipe to the end to get the most points. Yeah, there's really nothing else to say about this one.

I deeply enjoy this game because it sure kills time and I feel like a ninja whenever I'm playing this game. I strongly recommend anyone to play this game, it's not that expensive... As most app games are. And well, have fun attacking fruit!

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I'm The Kitty, Totally Not the Kitty In the Other Blog

I’m referencing Borderlands in my title, in case you sweet love ones don’t know. I came across this game about a year ago, despite that it’s been out longer than that. I enjoyed every moment of it, especially during the time I played “The Island of Dr. Ned” who totally isn’t Dr. Zed from the other story… Haha.

The game is a FPS-RPG game, which in gamer code, that means it’s a First-Person Shooter, which is also a Role-Playing Game. It’s a unique game, to say the least. The game looks like XIII, that cel-shaded look that makes it more cartoony/comic book style. I really enjoyed the look. You have a few characters to play, each have a unique style of playing. I grew up as a gamer always playing as the girl characters, because I am a girl, I enjoy being one, so I thought, what the heck, I’ll play as one in the games too.

The story is, you’re a Vault Hunter, going after these keys that are to open the vaults. Gaining trust of people on the planet Pandora, and fighting your way through a number of crazy characters. This game is remarkable on their weapons, that it even got an award from the Gueinss World Record on having the most weapons in a single video game. Literally, they have over one million and the next game, they’re hoping to double it.

You have various different missions to complete, either main ones or side ones. I never really did get a chance to complete all of the side missions. And the end boss is freaking weird, but tolerable because I was actually two levels higher than it. Only took me two times to beat it mainly because I was unsure about its attacks.

My only flaw with this game, it’s very easy to get stuck in a spot, whether you’re walking or driving a car. A stick could be hanging out on the side of the road, you hit it, your car will not budge. But other than that one minor thing, the game is brilliant, one of the best first person shooters I’ve ever had in my possession.

So, overall, I give this game an A, and I’m totally counting down how many days are left until I get my hands on the second one. I’m so glad I managed to defeat the first game before then, it usually takes me awhile to actaully beat games in general. Not because they’re tough, but because I’m stuck in school.

Oh, and in case you're wondering what other blog? I made a tumblr, here at: http://im-the-kitty.tumblr.com/

The Nightmares Of Playing Scary Games

This great first-person shooter was and still is a classic game in my books that's called Doom. I think this was probably the first game that ever brought me nightmares in my sleep. I was four when I first played this game and I still have a kick at it every now and then when I get the chance. If I can't get my hands on it, I'll just watch some walkthroughs on Youtube or something just to make me remember all the fun times I had with the game.

I still remember codes such as IDDQD, IDKFA, and IDSPISPOPD. Three codes that I often used at times when I felt like playing the game in a cheating manner... which was basically all of the time.

The one thing that scared me more than anything else in this game, and you're probably going to laugh a bit, was the status bar face. This guy's face used to freak the hell out of me because of the one face he makes that's kind of a hard one to pull off. It's called the "Ouch Face." And what this face looks like is this:

What you have to do is you have to get hurt pretty badly and then immediately run into a health pack that restores twice as much as the health you lost. It's kind of like "how did I survive this moment?"

Or, an easier way is to shoot a rocket at a wall and grab the blue sphere right after... or put in the God mode cheat.

His face gets even creepier when there's blood covering him and he makes this face as well. I used to have nightmares over this guy's face because it scared the crap out of me and quite frankly, I never understood why it did. I used to look back and asked myself why did this face scare me. Why is it that this only time in my gaming life did this one face scare me the most rather than the demons that I fought. I mean, even John Romero's face scared me when I put in the No Clips mode and walked through the wall. It freaked me out, but not as much as this face.

Maybe it's the randomness timing of it appearing that freaked me out. I mean look at it, even while I'm typing, does this face somewhat gives me a bit of fright, and I'm in my twenties...

I will say though, just becuase this face used to scare me, it did not make me run out of the room... No, one thing did during a game over sequence that made me running out of the room in fear. I was clearly terrified of going back to the TV and turning of my system due to this moment, and what made things worse was that I was home alone, so it sucked twice as hard to find the courage to go back and shut off my system.

When you're playing Tesshu in Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven and you die, his game over sequence is a lot scarier than Ayame's and Rikimaru's. Rikimaru's game over screen is some dark forest with leaves flying and Ayame's game over screen is a moon with flying flower petals blowing all over the place. Tesshu's... is a lot different. His is where you see his decapitated head sitting on a fence making the same exact face as the Doom guy's face, except his eyes are rolled up, and it zooms out with some random poem that states that he can no longer see the sun rise. This screen used to terrify me when I played this game, I believe I stopped playing the game after I saw that screen and sold it for another, and still to this day, I cower a bit when I see that face. I just thought that screen was the scariest thing I've seen in video games.

But, Dr. Salvador still scares me when I hear him coming.

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