This past weekend was SUPPOSED to be my chance to play some Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, a game I have been waiting on for an eternity. After all, Force Unleashed is arguably the first big game of the big game season we’re heading into.
All of that hype and pageantry….
A demo heralded as a savior to wookie and Yoda impersonators the world over….
But then a tiny little Xbox Live Arcade title came along and installed itself on my console. I fired up Galaga Legions on Friday night, and before I knew it, it was Monday. Full review after the jump.
Being an avid Galaga fan from the days when the machines seemed to be in every Denny’s in America (and I ate a LOT of French Slams) I was very concerned by the preview videos I had seen of Galaga Legions. At first glance it kinda reminded me of Geometry Wars, and looked way too chaotic to be a Galaga game. I am here to tell you now that I couldn’t have been more wrong.
Namco Bandai has managed to take an ancient franchise, update the graphics and gameplay to fully modern standards, reinvent and simplify the control scheme from the ground up, and has STILL managed to keep the whole experience completely “Galaga”.
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Damn… 3 pages of video game review for an XBLA game… It must be good. Heck, Braid didn’t get this kind of treatment…
This is the abridged version. I am saving the full collector’s edition review for when we get a bigger server to handle the raw data.
Too bad though, you should have seen the virtual diarama that I had to cut out. It was epic.
I can’t wait?
damn you…i wasnt going to get this game…but i never back down from a challenge…
WTF? Why is this review 3 pages long, when it could be easily condensed into 1 and a half?
Honestly, I think the repercussions that Doc mentioned are the very reasons that I’m not getting this game. I never liked the Geometry Wars games, because it’s just mindless button-pressing to fire and way too many lasers to comprehend entirely what was going on. This is why I liked Galaga: the game had a simple charm to it that I really got into. Now, with tons of lasers firing off in so many different directions, I feel that this is a totally foreign game in comparison to the original and I don’t think this is quite what I had in mind as the next big Galaga game. Oh, well.