Pronounced My-Key-On: by Michael Quach

Solutions are on the youtube page of this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIVejv9sHLg

I’ve come across one of the best dungeons I’ve expereienced in a while. A dungeon where it relies on your thinking to solve and where you need to read the lore behind the world to understand. I loved the riddle puzzles as I actually read the lore behind each of the characters and found it a nice break to solve puzzles without having to kill a bunch of monsters.

The bridge itself is another example of a thought puzzle in the game, after figuring out that I needed a combo of two characters to keep the bridge up, a third to move around and open up a new path, and my fourth to walk across, I was amazed. Finally, a thinking puzzle. I took out some pen and paper and began recording which stones I needed to stand on in order to make a path across, testing each stone with a character moving all around. After about 10 minutes, I got my solution and was on my way to the Sacred Urn of Andraste.

Never knew that Demigod could be such a hostile game. Me, Nayrhyno, and a random get a 3 vs 3 going on. The random claims it’s too laggy for him and quits in the first 5 minutes so Nay and I were left with just the AI. Apparently, two other players on the enemy team were new to the game and didn’t know what to do. Their teammate, Casper, raged hard on them in the public chat. I don’t know what he said in their team chat but I no doubt he was quite acidic.

I guess the Unclean Beast player just got pissed at being yelled at all the time and just spent the game running into us to die. He even killed himself with ooze and no health regen to keep him alive.

Another fail on their part as they don’t notice the uncapped celerity flag.

Games like this just makes me crack up.

This is what makes Demigod fun. In his all pubber game I joined, my team of 2 Sednas and 1 Erebus were pushed back to our Citadel by their Erebus, Torchbearer and Queen of Thorns. For the majority of the time, we could not put a dent into them and they would always chase us away from the flags.

Eventually, we got pushed back, both our portals capped with locks, most of our towers dead, minotaurs, archers, priests, angels, and catapults coming out from all sides and not one of us with any Area of Effect damage attacks. All seemed lost but the enemy Demigods fell victim one by one at the front steps of our citadel as we ganged up on each one. Our citadel constantly bombarded but we were able to hold off the waves long enough that each time the health went down to 10,000, we were able to push back to get some warscore.

Eventually while the enemy were all respawning, we pushed all the way to their portals and our giants took care of the rest. The biggest folly I see in the enemy’s gameplay was that they never upgraded their towers or creeps so it was relatively easy to push back and hold off the creeps while our creeps had two levels of upgrades in armor and damage. Most of the time, games of Demigod just starts steamrolling so comebacks or stalls are very rare, but when it happens, boy is it fun.

I love this casual game. Available for $9.99 on Steam and published by PopCap Games. Plants vs Zombies reminds me a bit of the Defend your Stronghold flash game. You have waves of zombies attacking your home and you must build up defenses to stop them. To build, you need an currency and the currency in this game is, Sunshine. Sunshine falls down naturally but to really rack up your economy, you’re gonna have to build Sunflowers. As the game progresses you have to start thinking, “Should I build sunflowers here, or should I build my offensive plant?” There is limited placement area and strategy comes into play in deciding what to place where and at what time.

Only 3 levels in so far but loving it and the soundtrack. Here is the link to the composer’s blog and she even has links up for her hit song “Zombies on your Lawn”
http://shigi.wordpress.com/

Here is a link to her story of the song
http://shigi.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/sunflower/