Lego Indiana Jones

Even though the most recent Indiana Jones game is devoid of blood, heart-rip-outs, and *sniff* the Wilhelm Scream, it is still a lot of fun to play. Especially in two player.

The first thing I would like to point out is, the two player. All of the levels can be played by two people at once. From the very beginning. You can choose to be helpful, or not. You can blow your friend to pieces with most weapons you choose weather it be fists, rocket launchers, pistols, machine guns, hand grenades, swords, crossbows, spears, feet, or random objects kicking around the environment. You could also help out by building, holding bridges open, or fending off the Nazis/village people/crazed knight. Two player is definitely the best way to play (the computer that plays as the other guy when your not in two player has the IQ of a retarded ant.)

One thing that isn't so fun is the all to common glitches. In one level you must scare birds so they will collide with the enemies airplane. In order for it to be adapted to a video game there are three flocks of birds that you have to scare. But, if you accidentally scare them in the wrong order the game freezes up. Some of the items you carry can be dropped. If you drop it in the wrong spot it seems to be teleported to somewhere else in the space-time continuum and isn't able to be recovered, meaning you have to restart the entire level! Often you yourself will get stuck in weird grooves on the not flat ground. Most of these should have been wiped out when the game was tested.

Something that is very interesting is the way all of the movies have been made into Lego. Watching Indy stare down into the pit with Sallah and his Dad was funny in the movie and equally funny in the game. Some of the movies elements were even matched in the levels such as the temple of the grail.

If you enjoy having an inventory of almost sixty people, don't mind a few glitches, or are a fan of the series, this would be a good game to get. You can easily beat the game in several hours, but with tons of secrets and bounuses to unlock it has days, upon days of replay time.

Mario Kart Wii

To start out I'd like to say that Mario Kart Wii is an awesome game. It's very fun and has tons of features.
The Grand Prix and the VS are still familiar enough to keep long time fans happy. The battles and races have changed, mainly because you can now play with twelve people instead of eight. You can still play four player all on one Wii but you can only play two on a Wii when you go online.
That's brings up another good point. The online play has drastically improved from Mario Kart DS. There is less lag making it a more fun experience and the game finds people for you to play much faster. With the friends system you can easily locate and join them! Even without the disk using the Mario Kart channel.
Some of the unlockable features require a ton of work to get. But none of the characters have any drastic advantages so if your a Mario Kart noob then you'll still survive the only play.
It's easy enough that people new to the franchise can still play and possibly keep up with the veterans of the franchise.
In conclusion I'd like to encourage you to buy this game if you already haven't. Who knows, maybe I'll even play against you online (my name on there is "Nolan".)

Rating- Double A+

Professor Layton and the Curious Village

I would like to start out by saying that this game is amazing! It isn't as you would expect from a puzzle game. What I would think would be in a puzzle game is a boring menu, no animated movies, no stories, and a boring presentation. But what came out was amazing. It has an amazing story, great animated cutscenes, interesting characters, and it is simple enough for anyone to play. The story is a lot like Paper Mario stories, it has strange twists, weird characters, and even though it is drawn to look strange, it manages to come off as serious. The supporting character, Luke (Layton's apprentice) isn't annoying like Tails is in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. Professor Layton is a cool character too, he doesn't come off with any lame catch phrases, he isn't loud and obnoxious (He is willing to admit he's wrong even if he isn't), and he is smart.

The navigation of the game doesn't feel hassled because it shows you where you have to go with a relatively simple map and it isn't like navigating impossible streets.

There isn't a shortage of puzzles. Pretty much any time you talk to someone they will give you a puzzle, but since you can go back later and find old puzzles it isn't necessary to worry much about it. The puzzles are all very fun, even if some are difficult to do it provides you with something to think about and wrestle with.

The dialogue isn't annoying either, when a character talks to you it is usually brief and doesn't feel like a hastle. If you don't feel like doing anything you can get away with just walking around looking for something to do.

And not to mention the art! Everything is hand drawn and it looks a lot like a form of Anime or Manga. The cutscenes look like an actually animated TV show , there aren't too many, so you aren't waiting for their talking to end and the characters move enough so that it doesn't feel like your just watching an enhanced version of the game, plus when talking (in the game or in the cutscenes) the characters mouthes actually move with the words. As if this wasn't already enough, the music is pretty good too.

I haven't even finished this game and I'm already looking forward to the second and third Professor Layton. With wonderful art, music, story, gameplay, and characters this is one game that you don't want to miss.

A+

N

N is a game based on Ninjas, for no reason you must collect gold, if you don't... you die. Although the game is free it is more fun than some games that I've payed fifty dollars for. The only three things you can do are move left, move right, and jump; but with the games excellent graphics and complex physics system, these three things can be combined any number of ways. To get through each level you have to find the door switch, press it, and unlock any other doors in your way, after that go through the door.
With its 500 levels plus how ever many users created (an option that you can use if you don't want to play the levels made by the developers) and the ability to make your own (press ~ or / at the main menu) this is a truly great game.
So head on over to http://www.thewayoftheninja.org/ to download the game for free. Oh and it takes up almost no memory on your hard drive.