ITtLXBLAD Pt. 3

These are just my opinions on the demos. While, yes, judging games based on the demos are not a good idea, a demo’s job is to make me want to spend my Microsoft points on it.

Ticket To Ride - Well, it’s based on the board game, and it happens to be a board game. Yeah. Demo contains a tutorial and the US board, which you could play the whole game against an easy AI. I was surprised that it didn’t stop halfway.

Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm - I really can’t see how you can make a good game based on the Happy Tree Friends, teddy bears that accidently kill themselves and each other to the joy of Hot Topic shoppers. This seems to be like a bad version of Lemmings, get your teddy bears to the other side with your power over the elements without them dying. Basically, the equivalent of a Gallagher game where you have to stop him from smashing a watermelon. But wait, there’s a cartoon to unlock piece by piece, because everyone is anxious to know what happens at the end of a Happy Tree Friends cartoon. I’d rather just watch the cartoons on the web, but I already watched the best one back when they were free Flash entertainment. Comes with a tutorial and a full level.