PixlBit

That's a good four games. 

Well, the dialog was pretty good. I enjoyed that, but I was hardly doing anything. The game part of it is just choosing a drink and mixing the ingredients. Very simple gameplay. I put the controler down most of the time and put the game on auto, just reading the dialog. 

It's barely a game, really. Mostly you just click "a" to move the dialog along. You can even set it to automatic so you don't have to click anything. In my second playthrough I used the fast forward button to skip all the dialog and get to the coffee making. Fortuneatly you can look at a text version of the last few lines of dialog so you can get the hints as to what to make. 

Oh, looks cool. It's not my usual type of game (neither is Coffee Talk) but I'd try it. I actually want to learn how to do mixed drinks as well as coffee in real life. 

Yeah, I'd have to make it my full time job to beat some of those players. 

I call it the Wii effect. It worked for them, why not us at Microsoft. Not so much. I was, however, very excited about Steel Battalion: Heavy Armor, which primarily used the Kinect. But, it apparently didn't work very well according to reviews so I never bought it. I absolutely loved the trailers for it though. 

Later, I got a Kinect cheap and a few games to try out with it. I played the Mars Lander game for free, and a few others. I didn't have much space in my friend's apartment though and it didn't always read my movements correctly. You need a nice size living room. But it did get tiring waving your arms around like that like in Disneyland Adventures. Couldn't play anything for long that way. 

I do still have one though and a few games for it like The Gunstringer, which is supposed to be one of the best Kinect games. I want to wield a light saber in that Star Wars game too. 

No way I'm taking my shoes off. I may have to run for my life. Things getting scary!

I love the setting for the Super Mario Galaxy games. I want to try them again. Platformers though, really test my patience. 

2009 was pretty darn good. I played a lot of The Maw on your end-of-year article. 

That's pretty good. I haven't gotten anywhere near that level yet.