Rise of the Guardians

Rise of the Guardians (3DS)

My rating: 1.5 of 5 stars


Better than the Dragons game, but still sadly lacking as a game adaptation to a well received movie. Apparently in the Wii version, you can summon all of the other guardians to help you in battle and the story pages are animated. Neither of these are true in the 3DS version, making the game feel flat, repetitive, and slower than a snail when you have to fight the same never ending fleets of nightmares with one character over and over again. There is also the pitfall of the cages sometimes refusing to break in the "rescue from cages" quest. Can't very well stop the nightmare spawning, let alone rescue your friend, if the cage won't break in the first place. After half an hour of trying to break the same cage (tried alternately with all 5 Guardians at different times), I gave up for now. I'll likely go back to it as I hate leaving things unfinished and I do love ROTG, but it won't be making my favorites list.

Professor Layton 5: The Miracle Mask

Professor Layton 5: The Miracle Mask (Nintendo 3DS)

My rating: 4 out of 5 stars


It's interesting how the newer games seem to go back to Professor Layton's history more than moving things forward. Seems a little backwards in order, but is also nice since it fills in some gaps with characters and where villains originally come into play that was otherwise missing. The puzzles get even more complex with the 3-D effects, requiring all sorts of tilting screens and puzzle thinking to solve. The different map style took a little getting used to as well, but on a whole it's still very familiar and of course, lots of fun. Now to straighten out my game codes and finish the other games in the series to make sure I have all the fun completely unlocked. :3