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Hello

I didn't think I actually played much this week, but then I started listing the games I did play. I didn't play a lot of one game, but I did play a little of a lot of games.

I got a rare night to myself this week so I decided to play some games on the PS3. Unfortunately I'd forgotten how slow the PS3 can be when installing from disc. TNA Impact Wrestling must have taken a good 20 mins or so to install. The game itself is actually quite a good wrestling game and a nice alternative to the WWE games. It also gives a nice snapshot of TNA at the time and the fairly stacked roster that they had. The downpoints are that the load times are slow (despite installation to the PS3 HDD), and that a fair amount of the roster is locked out until you unlock them through the story mode.

Def Jam Icon was next, and after just one match I gave up on it. It's not that it's a bad game as a lot of time has obviously been put into it, but it just didn't grab me the way that the Def Jam games on the Gamecube did. Compared to those it just felt a little slow and the punches and kicks lacked weight behind them. The roster looked OK, and I'm guessing more characters can be unlocked through the other modes. I'll maybe go back to it at some point.

Up next were Entwined and Cloudberry Kingdom, both of which were free on PS+ in previous months. Cloudberry Kingdom is a side scrolling platformer that has you collecting diamonds to complete the level. The artstyle is a cartoon style that suits the game, but the controls felt sluggish and jumping just didn't feel right. Entwined, however, was very satiffying to play. You control two birds with one analog stick each and have to navigate them on the screen to fly through relevant coloured sections to fill up your entwined meter. With your meter filled you then merge the birds into a dragon and fly about collecting orbs that opens up an exit portal to the next level. A very beautiful game and worth your time to have a go on.

As for everything else I've been playing a bit more of LA Noire, 0rbitalis and Rogue Legacy on the PC, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate on the WiiU, and Alphabear, You Need to Build a Boat, and WWE Supercard on Android.

My goal this week is to try and get the handful of achievements in 0rbitalis that I haven't got yet, and put some time into either Rage or Zack & Wiki (hopefully).