Hi folks, I'm presenting my reviews in 2 formats: the first one in a forum style (nothing extraordinary) and in a second way that is a retro magazine style in a pdf. It even has old console and some retro movies commercials xD. I hope you like it because I put a lot of time and work in that! And the forum version is just a formality, well I guess I didn't see any rules about the reviews again, see you later!
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REVIEWS BY ALEOMARK
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This is the review for every application and new game launched on the NEO COMPO 2011 contest (except for toy wars, I wasn't able to boot that game), all the system analized with neutrality and objetivity IN A FORUM STYLE.
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#1 [PSP] AnyLanguageStudy v2.0 This app will let you learning new words of different languages, it even is kind of funny for a while, but more important is that it’s an useful app. But the graphics are too simple and doesn’t have sound at all.
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#2 [PSP] PSP Music Center Wow I liked this app, it’s very useful in order to make your psp a nice audio player! But wait a minute, why I’ll need an app if the PSP can do that normally? Cause sometimes you don’t want to waste time converting files into another format, a music player isn’t a very original concept but it’s useful, is the kind of app that you’ll use it a lot, but not all is good, it can’t display cover files yet, I guess that will be add in future versions. Another thing bad is that it has bugs.
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#3 [PSP] Pspythagoras Pspythagoras is a really simple; believe it, simple app, that is able to calculate Pythagorean Theorem, NO WAY! xD. It looks really simple, and I can’t find it useful unless you’re in high school and don’t own a calculator but do have a PSP.
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#4 [N64] Myth64 Video Player First at all, sorry for the bad quality picture but the creator didn’t upload one and I take that directly from my TV screen. These app would let you to play videos in low resolution and in a custom format in your N64 using the neo myth cart.
The video quality is poor, sound is ok,
doesn’t have pause buttons -
UPDATE: sorry my mistake, it does have a pause button (holding A)- neither fast forward or slow motion, or something else, it just plays videos and that’s it. One inconvenient is that you have to change the format of your videos, before play them, and after losing time doing that you’ll only be able to play them in low res. So isn’t a good video player but is the only one available for the N64 and we’ll have to give extra credit cause it’s been years since some new homebrew app were developed for this system. Let’s hope in next versions it can have more options and resolution.
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#5 [NDS] Wildlife Greenhouse Quiz time, do you like herbs? I mean not smoke them, just know about them this app is about to know what herb is this one.
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#6 [NDS] TuneItDS Ok , probably it is an app about how to play a guitar, but there is no description inside the app, it's cool just need an inside tutorial and I could say tuneltds is a great app. A really usefull one.
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#7 [NDS] WhatTheHex Ok, what color is this #d24921?
Well if u don't know, you should not play this game, because they show you 4 squares 1 color each 1 , and you have to guess what color is it ( btw, it was red )if you like this game, probably you should learn how to speak in binary lol
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#8 [NDS]U.S.A Naturalization Test If you like tests you probably should play this app, if you don’t like normal people, skip it. It’s an app about US story, in order to get you ready for apply for a green card.
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#9 [NDS] MIND MAZE Wow, I played this game several times; I finished every mini game that it contains, why? Because it’s great! I have a lot fun especially with the first mini game.
Let me tell you that Mind Maze is a compilation of 4 mini puzzle games, one is a slide puzzle, like the ones I used to play when I was a kid, you got a picture divide into 11 frames a one free slot, you have to slide the frame trying to make everything in order to complete the picture. The second mini game is about make couples with cards, just a memory game, kind of funny but not too much. The third one is about move a ball through a labyrinth, these one is really fun and you need to have good reflex cause in order to do it in less time you need to don’t touch the walls, and the last mini game you’ve to build any of the 4 images available, turning the cubes, it’s really difficult. It has minor bugs in game selection screen.
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#10 [NDS] Super Smash Bros Crash! DS (Demo10) Last year I said: “This is a recreation of bigger Smash bros for others consoles, with some new characters from anime series, If you like Smash you’ll need this title in your collection”. And still it’s with some improvements respect version #7, but still the game is unfinished, The graphics character are great, but can’t say the same about the scenario, still fun to play.
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#11 [NDS] Flying In flying you’re a fly (NO WAY DUDE! Said Tommy Chong xD), trying to reach a green balloon in order to access the next level, but you can’t touch anything else or you’ll start again that level, I didn’t enjoy it too much and even get me frustrated, the graphics are normal, just too dark. But control that fly is really difficult, I mean really, maybe it could be funnier if flying were more confortable.
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#12 [NDS] DScraft Dscraft is a big effort to export the popular game minecraft to the NDS, even when I’m not a lover of the original game or concept, is great to see how good is these clone, really close to the look and feel of the original game. The graphics look so nice, and the world is so big, and you can make almost any construction you can imagine if you are patient enough. It doesn’t have great sounds, the controls are fantastic, and fun factor is really high if you like these kind of games, but if you don’t you’ll only play 5 minutes and turn the console off.
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#13 [NDS] Arsenal It's the old school games, you control an spaceship and just shoot like there is no tomorrow, it is a bit messy because the enemy fire around all the screen, and sometimes you just can't avoid bullets (in memory of Timoty). Sound is ok, controls are fantastic!
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#14 [NDS] Everyman There is no nice graphics in this game, a 10 year old kid can draw graphics like that and the environment is confused.
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#15 [PSP] Company v1.0 – Story Edition This is a game card, really different, were you have to deal with having a company and tried to make it big in order to make more money, using all kind of tactical for steal other’s company’s money, and saving you money in the bank etc. The truth I didn’t have a good time playing it, everything happen fast and you can understand very good your opponents moves. Graphics are really simple, and music is repetitive. It’s a really original idea but, I don’t see myself playing it again, maybe if you love table games you can find this game funnier.
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#16 [PSP] Spacial Wars In this game you have to shoot a lot against spaces ships, sound familiar? Yes because it’s a very old concept, but now you’ve to do it in 3 dimensions, using up or down you change how deep you’re and what ships you can shoot, but the biggest surprise is that it doesn’t have sound! ¬ ¬.
And after 5 minutes it gets really repetitive, the truth is that you’ll not play a lot this game, maybe a couple of times.
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#17 [PSP] REminiscencePSP v0.2.1 Wow is this game really homebrew? Yes sir it’s, but it looks as a retail game, and like the author says in description it’s similar to games like PoP, but I thinks is more closer to feel like Another World or Heart Of The Alien.
It has great graphics, sound, recorder voices and even FMV! : ). That’s great but –always has to be a but- isn’t an original enter, this game won in 2009 second place for PSP Game Area. If weren’t by that detail I’ll give it perfect score, but isn’t the case. About the game itself if I have to say something against it is that is difficult, and if you don’t have patient you’re not going to enjoy in all its magnitude.
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#18 [PSP] Hamtaro Holidays v2 This a tamagotchi clone game for the PSP. Instead of using a “monster of pocket” the protagonist is Hamtaro, is really a simple game, repetitive, and kind of fun if you like this kind of concept, but if you don’t you’ll get bored soon, the music is ok, graphics are simple, control is fine, what’s more important about these game is that it really is an original idea to export tamagotchi concept to PSP.
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#19 [SNES] MegaFamilyBros It’s a shame that these game on real hardware has troubles, and this a neoflash contest at least we would like it works fine with their flashcarts. I played it in real hadware but some graphic glitches make it difficult to do it (some enemies were invisible, and some holes looked as continue floor). Using snes9x I could played it without graphic issues but them the music sound bad, that’s when I remembered the comments in the topic of the forum. Sound isn’t original, same as several enemies, the controller feels fine, and is fun to play these game.
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#20 [WII & GC] Toy wars UNABLE TO TEST
Ranking----# in order from review----system----Name of game/app
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1 #6. [NDS APP] TuneItDS
2 #4. [N64 APP]Myth64 Video Player
3 #1. [PSP APP] AnyLanguageStudy v2.0
4 #2. [PSP APP] PSP Music Center
5 #8. [NDS APP] U.S.A. Naturalization Civics Test
6 #5. [NDS APP] Wildlife Greenhouse
7 #7. [NDS APP] WhatTheHex
8 #3. [PSP APP] pspythagoras
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1 #12. [NDS GAME] DScraft
2 #13. [NDS GAME] Arsenal
3 #09. [NDS GAME] Mind Maze
4 #17. [PSP GAME] REminiscencePSP v0.2.1
5 #19. [SNES] MegaFamilyBros V1.0
6 #10. [NDS GAME] Super Smash Bros Crash! DS
7 #14. [NDS GAME] Everyman
8 #15. [PSP GAME] Company v1.0 - Story Edition
9 #11. [NDS GAME] Flyin'
10 #16. [PSP] Spacial Wars!
11 #18. [PSP]Hamtaro Holidays v2