Despite talk of new consoles dominating the gaming press at the moment, I'm spending more time with one of my handheld machines lately than other consoles - and it's all because of a game called Luigit's Mansion 2.
To be ?honest, I've only switched on my Xbox 360 lately to watch episodes of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm and have been turning to my Nintendo 3DS for gaming satisfaction. While Nintendo's handheld had a rocky start, it seems that some most excellent games are coming out for it now: The latest Fire Emblem game is a cracker and Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D looks like it's another winner as well.
Today, I also downloaded a demo for Tom Francis' PC game Gunpoint, a game that I've been following closely over the past couple of years. I'm looking forward to playing through the demo over the next couple of days then - most likely - will plonk down the handful of American dollars it'll cost me to buy it. It's an intriguig indie game that looks like it'll be a lot of fun.
But back to Nintendo's 3DS. It seems while the Wii U - Nintendo's home console that is soon to go head-to-head with Sony and Microsoft's next generation consoles - is languishing a little, the 3DS is going from strength to strength.
Nintendo have always had a strong handheld pedigree and now the 3DS is proving no different. I wish I had a Nintendo 3DS XL, though, the one with the bigger screens; my ageing eyesight is having to work just a little bit harder with the original 3DS's smaller displays.
I'm not sure what it is about Luigi's Mansion 2 that makes me like it so much, but it's probbly got a lot to do with little touches like the way Luigi hums the theme tune as he's wandering around creepy mansions, the animations as he finds himself save after confronting a couple of ghosts, the wonderfully strange Professor E. Gadd, the ghost sucking device that looks like a vacuum cleaner. There are just so many things that make this game great.
It's testimony to how good a handheld game is when you play it more than a home console that's connected to your TV (and to be honest, I'm playing most of my games at the moment on PC: My home consoles hardly get a look in).
So, in celebration of handheld gaming, who's rocking their handheld gaming device at the moment? What is the game that's capturing your attention?
Oh, thanks for all the suggestions on Friday's blog. There were some indicating they'd like a Steam group so readers of the blog can chat and socialise. I'll look into that this week.
Other stuff you might be interested in: Game Junkie is on?Twitter?and you can email him?here. He'll even answer your emails, not get some smart robot to do it. He also has another gaming blog?here, which was actually updated recently. You should check it out.
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/blogs/game-junkie/8724900/Handheld-gaming-is-my-thing-right-now
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