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Picross 3D

Martin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:24:33 +0000

Picross 3D isn’t as important as eating, talking to your friends or going to work. It just feels like it is when you’re playing it.

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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks

Martin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:47:00 +0000

It will probably come in very handy, the game says. It’s referring to the Spirit Flute, and is making the understatement of the year. The latest Zelda might happen to be called Spirit Tracks, and its imagery might be suffused with steamy, quasi-industrial iconography, but it’s the magical pan pipes which underpin the entire experience. It’s the game’s equivalent of the Ocarina or Wand of Wind, just without receiving nearly as much recognition in the game.

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Grand Theft Auto Chinatown Wars

Martin — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:18:04 +0000

On the surface, Chinatown Wars is everything the DS stands for: bold colours, cartoony graphics and a devout adherence to stylus-based mini-games. It’s an undeniably ironic twist, the DS’s first 18-rated game practically immersing itself in the very tropes that made the system so family-friendly to begin with.