Gathering for the Cheery Chievo Chipper

On 09/01/2013 at 05:13 PM by KnightDriver

My buddy is still MIA this week and so I went and got some more games to feed the Cheery Chievo Chipper, ie. my Xbox 360. How many games could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck games. Well, this woodchuck can chuck a lot of games as long as someone OPENS THE GAME ROOM! Ah, well. At least I get to do another blog on the games I got before I go O.D. on Yogo froyo. DEATH BY BRAIN FREEZE!!! OH YEAH!

Naruto: Rise of a Ninja was a game I played the demo for when it came out and kinda liked. It has an RPG mode where you can go on missions. The demo made it seem like a full on open world RPG but I think there are one-on-one battles too and a lot of platforming. I'm not much of a 1v1 fighting or platforming fan, but I'm open to being convinced otherwise. The cell-shaded graphics were also appealing to me, as always. This game was developed by Ubisoft Montreal who have done, in addition to the Assasin's Creed series, many liscenced games.

Rayman Raving Rabbids was a game I played on the Wii and thought pretty fun until certain repetetive Wiimote shaking had me thinking about broken shoulder tendons. I'm thinking the 360 version will translate the controls to all button-mashing so I can get carpal tunnel syndrome instead. I alwasys loved the humor of the Rabbids, granted it's mostly slapstick. They remind me of the minions in Despicable Me, bumbling goofs that are just darn cute, if dangerous. The game has a story mode where you are Rayman emprisoned by Serguei and you have to perform in various mini games to escape and save the Globox kids. The mini games are pretty fun but some of them are just button-mashers, or in the Wii's case, Wiimote shakers. I'm interested to see how this game plays with a standard controller and hopefully get to the end of the story mode.

Meet the Robinsons looks to be like a lower quality Ratchet & Clank game, ie.: an action platformer with third-person shooting with some environmental puzzles to solve. Developed by Disney's internal studio, I hope the controls are good - the critical point in any game like this.

Now to the Yogo froyo.AH BRAIN FREEZE!!! TELL MY MOTHER I LOVE HER!!!

Super Step Contributing Writer

09/01/2013 at 06:39 PM

Naruto games look fun to me, I've only seen the fighting ones though. Never seen the show.

And now I want frozen yogurt.

KnightDriver

09/01/2013 at 06:53 PM

I've only see a little bit of the show over the shoulder of a few friends who are mad into it. When I saw a Naruto game that wasn't all fighting, I remembered it.

Ranger1

09/01/2013 at 07:33 PM

Happy Chievo hunting! I'm going back to climbing buildings and knifing guards in Rennaisance Italy shortly.

09/01/2013 at 11:20 PM

Funny, I'm doing something similar. Doing all the Dark Brotherhood quests in Oblivion. Plenty of knives in the dark but very little climbing. Some jumping and a whole lot of sneaking though.

jgusw

09/01/2013 at 08:08 PM

I enjoyed Naruto: Rise of the Ninja. I'm a bit biased though. I'm a Naruto fan.

09/01/2013 at 11:28 PM

I've seen more DBZ than Naruto.

09/02/2013 at 08:17 AM

Naruto is a little similar to DBZ. The writer of Naruto was a huge DBZ fan.

leeradical42

09/01/2013 at 10:59 PM

Well if i could put away The Record of Argarest long enough to check out other games i might join ya lol!! but in reality im saving for GTA5 being released this month

09/01/2013 at 11:22 PM

I saw both Record of Agarest War games when I went to Gamestop, but I had a budget to stick to and a buy two get one sale. I will pick them up sometime.

GrayHaired

09/01/2013 at 11:10 PM

Death by Brain Freeze....now that would be a painful death!

09/01/2013 at 11:25 PM

Funny that I haven't seen it in a game yet although there's always ice weapons that freeze an enemy that you can then shatter with a melee attack. That's been used plenty. Someone needs to do one where it only freezes their head and then you knock that off. That'd be a true brain freeze attack.

PixlBit