Casual Game: Madness Regent

Madness Regent is a game based on the famous Madness series on Newgrounds, this is a game design by Tom Fulp founder of newgrounds in celebration of madness series.

Well, in this game you control a character call Hanks and you go around shooting in a 2D side scroller world. Pretty straight-forward and short game. The graphics are really something that every flash game should aim at.

I find that a fun 2D side scroller depends a lot on the level design, on how the player interact with each level. Hopefully, each level give the player a different experience instead of just avoiding obstacles and killing enemies.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/461016

Casual Game: Death Dice Overdose

This is a very simple addictive game. You control a simple character ans suppose to dodge incoming dices falling from the sky. At the same time, there is a shock meter, the shock meter will gradually increase in time and you are suppose to keep it low. So you are suppose to collect pills but eating too much pills will make you "high" and things will start to become very colourful.

One more thing that make this game interesting, is the random event dice that will drop, sometimes it will spawn something dangerous or more pills.

Sometimes, a game doesnt need to have a really complicated system to make it fun. However, with complicated and well woven system, a game can become really deep and engaging, well, pros and cons.

Anyway here is the link

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/461279

Casual Game: Brawl Royale

Interesting game, basically this is like your wild west where those cowboy see who can draw their gun the fastest and kill the other guy except that this game uses swords and other funny weapons. Decent graphics and fantastic special effects.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/458245

Casual Game: Beetle Run

Pretty cute game, its a puzzle game, tho its not an original concept the story is and the level design is good, the difficulty build up is just nice. You are a dung beetle trying to impress your girlfriend and you are to collect dung.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/459013

Casual Game: Ninja Glove

Ninja glove is a game made up of 21 mini games. You are suppose to complete each one of them within a limited amount of time and hopefully make it through all 21. There are 6 ranks in this game, the ranks are funny because they are the human fingers! So you start the game with the pinky and once you beat the game you get the ninja finger, hehe. Pretty fun and exciting.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/456622

Casual Game: Magma Mayhem!

Simple Game. Dodge incoming magma balls, collect power ups and try to survive as long as possible. However, the animation is definitely not simple, its very impressive and engage the player with the character. Fantastic. WOW. I love the funny expressions the character make when a magma almost hit him.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/456355

Casual Game : Feel the Beats

A great rhythm/ music game. Its very similar to DJ max on psp other than this has lesser songs. You use 6 buttons and space bars to correspond with the beats. For crazy people who like challenge, this game has a crazy mode which let you pay in invisble mode where you see nothing other than hearing the music. Good luck and have fun

http://www.thorgaming.com/games/3926/feel-the-beat.html

Casual Game: Weapon Fire

Nice stickman action game. Good to kill some time, nice animation, lots of weapons just go kick some ass! WOOHOO



http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/335530

Casual Game: Marvin Spectrum

This is a rhythm/action game. Very interesting and addictive game. You play as marvin andyou have the ability to change into different colours, well four actually, blue, red, green and purple. You will progress through 4 levels where you will jump pass obstacles by pressing the corresponding arrow keys and color of the obstacle.

In the early level, you will only use maybe 2 colors but in the later levels it gets very intensive. Great game.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/270585

Casual Game: WulfGar

In this game, you play as a viking warrior trying to kick some evil butt. Great graphics, a lot of frame by frame animation. This is a side scrolling action game. You will hack and slash through hordes of enemies and there will be mini bosses and bosses.

One of the unique point about this game is that, you dont just hack and slash throughout mindlessly. Every enemy is weak to a certain attack and some require you to attack in specific manner then they will fall. This is an interesting concept but its a little frustrating to find out what attack works and what dont. A little more to add to frustration would be the distance between each checkpoint, given the unique way of killing, i would prefer a shorter interval between checkpoints.

anyway here is the link

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/427136

Casual Game: Alpha Bounty

Heres a great time waster. You control a ship and kill lots of aliens in a side scrolling format. Great graphics and irritating music that keep looping. Pretty intense game, there are weapons upgrades and stuff. Only thing is that, once you die, you will have to restart...


http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/452407

Casual Game: Governor of Poker

This is a game where you play poker! Simple? Well. the catch to this game is, you make a living by playing poker, its a role playing game where you earn $$ through poker, buy stuff and get rich. Its a pretty good time killer but sadly, the link is only the demo you have to buy the actual game.

well, heres the link.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/445178

Casual Game: Amorphous+

A very simple top view hack and slash game. You start the game by controlling a man holding a huge sword and there are huge slimes charging at you. You are suppose to kill them, as the time progress, stronger slimes will start to appear. I think what makes this game cool is the award and reward system. There are a lot of awards that you can acheive in this game. It seems that a lot of games are taking the "award player with lots of stuff" to keep them playing and i must say it works.


Here's the link
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/450670

Casual Game: Snot Put

This is a very very simple game but its freaking addictive. All you need to do is to fling your snot as far as possible, thats it, simple? Well, its really fun when you suddenly out of the blue found a method to throw your "Snot" to far far away.

I was hooked on this game like 15 mins before i realise that tossing a snot takes about only 20 sec so you can guess how much i throwed.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/436638

Casual Game: Journey of Reemus

All right, another Point and Click game. What i like about this game is the creater's brilliant creativity and imagination. Like what i talk about what kind of point and click game attracts me this game has it all. This game features Reemus, a weird looking guy who is out to save the world from its various problems by venturing through a fantasy world. He will solve puzzles and out wit opponents and hopefully not eaten alive by some monster.

The interaction between objects is so brilliant and yet logical at the same time, (Kinda hard to explain, you just got to try it). To get through some of the level, you actually need to think out of the box, be patient and you will get through it.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/zeebarf/the-several-journeys-of-reemus

Casual Game: Chaos Faction

Chaos Faction is a game rather similar to the Super Marios Smash Bros, except that this game is full of little ball peoples. There are also some difference including the exaggerated physics used in Smash Bros, in Smash Bros, you can propel your enemy into far far away hopefully making them fall to their death. However in Chaos Faction, there is no much of that, its moree of collecting weapon and taking out your opponents.

This game features a huge variety of weapons and levels which never gets old. Awesome game to kill some time and if you want some challenge, play with your friends.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/335777

Casual Game: Drunken Master

Drunken Master is a 2D flash game where you play as a bartender. You will need to serve customers their drinks, from beers, wines , cocktails to hard liquour. However, you dont just serve them, you need to earn points by doing stunts with your wine bottles without breaking them by flipping and throwing them about.

This game features very impressive physics and graphics, so it might lag on some computer but no worries, this game is great and its worth a try. It will take a few tries to learn the trick and get use to the throwing and juggling of GLASS bottles. Well, some of you dont get the chance to do this in real life, heres a good simulation

http://www.kongregate.com/games/DannySeven/drunken-masters

Casual Game: Tipping Point

Tipping Point is a point and click game about a guy who enter a fantasy realm when he fall asleep.

In my opinion, point and click games are pretty boring cause all you need to do is to "CLICK". Good point and click games are good because they show the creativity and imagination of a person. If a point and click game does not have any originality in it, it would not be refreshing and engaging. When i play an interesting point and click game, if i interact between the objects, i will go "Wow, this actually works?". I guess its that surprise element and human curiousity to play with unknown objects.

Tipping Point is a rather long game which is spread between several chapters. Need some inspiration, try it.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/447057

Casual SICK game: Torture Chamber 2

Well, the objective of this game is very simple, torture your victim to his DEATH! HA!. You are accessed to a range of weapons ,most of them are guns, there is a chainsaw, razor ( This one is cool, you get to skin your victim alive)

This game can only engaged you for a short time given the limited items, i am sure if there are more items, it will be great.

This game is not for kids, its very violent, lots of gore and if you have some bad feelings kept down there, this is the game for you.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/439144

Casual Game: Heli Attack 3

Just remembered this great 2D scroller shooter game. In Heli Attack, you play as a little soldier armed with a pistol and with grenades and you are suppose to progress through the levels by killing a certain number of helicopters which comes in various sizes. Some of the bigger helis need more firepower before coming down.

There are a lot of weapons in the game, i think this is what attracted me, like rail guns, rocket launcher, grenade launcher, tasers and many more.

Throughout the levels, there are secret areas which you can find to unlock more powerful weapons, like the Black Hole which is the highest damage weapon in the game except that its reload is freaking long.

Here is the game: Heli Attack 3, enjoy.
http://mofunzone.com/online_games/heli_attack_3.shtml

Casual Game: Indestructo Tank

Today, i just played a good game to kill some time. IndestructoTank-AE, this is their latest version with improve graphics and music but the game mechanics still remain the same as the older version.

Notice that i did not blog the past 2 days? Yeah been a little busy and i only try to put interesting and fun games on this blog, so if you find any games that you don't like you can email me and tell me.

All right, IndestructoTank, you play as an indestructable tank basically and you run across the field and there will be helicopters attacking you. You control the tank with up, down, left and right and when the heli drop a bomb, try to get hit and then you will be flying. Once that happens, try to knock into the helicopters and explode them, one explosion will sent you flying again and then hopefully there are other heli around so you can get a chain reaction or combo. Getting a combo will let you proceed to the next level faster and give you more points.

Your points will be use to sumon more helicopters and there are quite a variety of them so a good combination is important if you want a high score. In each level there is also fuel consumption, if your fuel runs out before the level ends, game over.

Great game to kill some time, interesting concept.
Heres the link at Kongregate.

http://www.kongregate.com/games/ArmorGames/indestructotank-ae

1998/2001: Dragon Warrior Monsters 1/2

All right another old game. Dragon Warrior Monsters by Enix before they merge with Squaresoft.

Dragon Warrior Monsters 1 and 2 have rather similar system so i will merge them together as one review.

In DWM, you play as a monster trainer where you will capture, breed and level monsters to fight other monsters. There are around 280 monsters all together, 10 families, Beast, Bug, Plants, Undead, Birds, Dragons, Material, Water( only in DWM2), Devil and Boss. This old game is rather similar with the popular Pokemon except that you dont use pokeballs here.

Throughout the game, you control a monster trainer that can hold up to 3 monster in a team at once. During your travel across worlds/gates, you will fight monster from 1-3 of them at one time. To capture a monster, you use meat to tame it, with Badmeat being the weakest and Sirloin the best.

To breed your monster, you need to train them to at least level 10 and you need a male and female monsters, after that its all about the recipe and patience to get the ultimate monster you want.

What i really like about this game is the anticipation of what monster am i getting if i breed this and that. I am really excited everytime. I think this is the real joy of this game, collecting every single monster, the sense of achievement this game give the player and of course, the huge variety of monster designs.

If you love pokemon i am sure you will love this game as well.

RagDoll Cannon

I justed play a rather cute game maybe sadistic to kill some time.

Its call Ragdoll Cannon.
In the game, you control a cannon and try to shoot stickman into a designated area. In the later levels that are some little puzzles which you have to solve to get across. The level design is unique and balance so everything can be solve. The physics is rather accurate with the how each things swings and moves. Need to kill some time, try the game out.

Heres the link

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/444877

1997 Playstation: Herc's Adventure

A great game by Lucas Art, Hercules Adventure on playstation.\

The story of this game is basically about the Greek Gods with Hades being the baddie. Hades has captured Persephone the goddess of nature and decide to rule the world. So Zeus summon three heroes, Atlanta, Jason and Hercules.

As the game start you get to pick from three characters, Atlanta, Jason and Hercules, by the way you can also play 2 person mode. Play in from a "god view", you control your hero and travel through Ancient Greece and try to get help from the other Gods. Using a variety of weapons like Spears, Tridents, Pepper Breath, Garbage, you battle all sorts of nasty creatures.

Other than fighting monsters there also Boss monsters which are legendary creatures from Greek Mythology like the Hydra, Medusa and Talos. As you explore the world, you will notice a lot of posters and billboards advertising the monsters. I have no idea Ancient Greece know how to make posters and billboards at that time.

Anyway, other than that, there are a lot of mini secret areas which you can explore as well which yield valuable items that will aid you in your journry.

One thing i do not like about this game is the Saving Game option. The save points are far apart and you might just die travelling to one and you need to pay money to save your game.

Speaking of death in the game. When you die, you will travel to the underworld. In there you have to fight your way out into the living world again. If you die another time, you will be drop to underworld level 2 and so on and so forth. You can only die maximum of 6 times.

I love this game, its just simply adorable. The cartoony humours and random stuff just make this game irresistable. There are aliens, robots, refrigirators and a photo taking machine, not to mention how distort looking the Gods are. Hera, the queen of Gods is a fat. snobbish lady in this game compared to the description of her in the mythology and this goes for Athena and Dionysis as well.

All right, i will end, try to get the game, you will not regret it.

1996 Sega Saturn Game: Dragon Force

I have been trying out some old games lately, some from gameboys, sega saturn and playstation. I find that a lot of them are really fun and can be used to generate new ideas for our new gaming era

Today i am going to talk about Dragon Force, an old strategy game based on Sega Saturn console.

At the start of the game, you get to choose from 8 factions/country. After that some god will appear and tell you that you need to unite the Dragon Force Warriors which are the other 7 countries by means of war.

The entire game world is piece of land called Legendra and there are little castles scattered all over the place. You start with a couple of this castle and a few officers that have armies of their own including your King. Each officer have at least 10 soldiers and 100 max.

The purpose of this game is to send out divisions made up of at least 1 officer and 5 max to dominate every little castle on the map.

The best thing about this game is the battle, woot.

When you engage an enemy officer you will be bring to a screen that look like this.

In the battlefield, to win you need to defeat the opposing general by killing him or making him retreat using your army or by casting spells with your General.

After that, you can choose different formations/command to mobilise your troop. The formation and commands are very important here as well as when to use them as it can mean losing your entire force or winning an entire army of 100 men with just 30 men. There are various formation like Offense which command 70% of your army to charge and 30% to protect your General. There is also Disperse command where your army will scatter to the top and bottom screen mainly to avoid archers and mages and incoming spells. There are other formations and commands, if you want to know more get the game or go GameFaqs.

Also in the game, there are other components which you need to consider as they help in battles. Some units are good against other units, for example, Cavalry are good against Soldiers, Soldiers are good against Beast. Knowing what unit is weak against which unit can turn a battle to your favour.

Other than searching for castle to battle, you can recruit new generals by capturing enemy general or search for them during your domestic affair meeting. The domestic affair meeting will occur after the sandclock on the top of your screen ends everytime. In this meeting, you can award your generals medals which can boost their morale and their army size, fortify your castles and negotiate with prisoners.

Fun Factor:

The battle system is unique and balanced allowing even a small force to take down a huge force.

There is no super unit in the game, forcing the player to acquire every type so to use in the approriate moment.

On how to get the game, you can go ebay and buy the original or you can go google it how to get it to play on your computer.

Casual Gaming

If you are reading my blog, most probably you are a gamer, but here's the question, are you a hardcore gamer or a casual gamer?

The difference between a hardcore gamer and a casual gamer in my opinion is the amount of time spent on the games. Most hardcore gamers are players who play Multiplayer online games, owns PS3 and Xbox360.

A casual gamer plays games that does not take up too much time, like browser games, flash games and facebooks. Some of them also owns PSP , Ninento Wii and Nintendo DS and you can see them playing their consoles on public transports. Basically, this gang of people play games to kill time and have some quick fun. I happen to fall under this catergory.

So are you a casual gamer? If you are, here are some pretty cool sites you can visit

www.newgrounds.com
www.kongregate.com
www.mofunzone.com

These three are my favourite websites where i go kill some times playing good flash games. Newgrounds is my top "GAMER PICK" as it also has flash animations and good music made by the public.

Epsilon ( VERY RECOMMENDED GAME)

Today, i am going to talk about another awesome game called Epsilon. It is a puzzle game that uses very cool mechanics and special effects. A must try.

This game uses a similar mechanic to "Portal" where you get to teleport through 2 different wormholes. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/404612

and time travelling mechanics.

Even though at the later stages the levels might get a little tricky as it require very fast hand movements, nonetheless this game made my day. Pure awesomeness.

Heres the link
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/442261

Arcane the Armour Collector

Well, today i played a pretty neat game by Rusty Arcades . This game is pretty much like Unreal Tournament Flash Game except that this game uses swords.

Basically, this is a 2D scrolling action/ fighting game. You are a gladiator, you can buy armours and choose from a variety of weapons. After that, you choose a level and start fighting other gladiators in that level.

The cool part is the the combat system. Unlike any other fighting game, you do not have to press any keys to raise your shield or to "Block" your enemy attack. Your Shield is always up and you just have to move the shield with your mouse to block your enemy attacks. So the only thing you need to worry about is just to chop you enemies to pieces.

Heres the Link, try it, its addictive

http://www.mofunzone.com/online_games/arcane.shtml#