Armed with Wings 2 is a cool fighting game where you must fight your way out from the rebel king’s guards and go find the sacred blades of Eden — your only hope of reclaiming your throne. Its an action-packed game all the way to the end and leaves you wondering what will happen in the next chapter. I’ve always thought the game’s style of animation was somewhat weird but it flows nicely(sort of like ink) and makes for an enjoyable gaming experience.

Its style is not like that of a traditional fighting game so it might take a while to get used to. For those of you who are having trouble with the game, I’ve posted a walkthrough below.

The Savior is a fun RPG battle game where you are battling a giant boss and have to kill him twice(once in normal form and once in final form if you are playing on normal or master) to win. This game is pretty hard as you have to upgrade all your skills adequately to have a chance of winning. The main trick to this game is dodging the enemy attacks and learning their pattern. For the normal form of the boss, its not that hard, but its really hard for the final form as the arc of his attacks is much wider and he attacks much faster.

Basically you have to pay attention to which hand the boss has his sword in and the motion he does before he does the attack. When he is doing his wide arc attack, it is actually better and easier to run into him then to run the opposite way. When he jumps and does his stepdown attack, you also want to be running in the right way. Later when he gets wave and energy attacks, you will need to be on the right side to not take damage. There is no way to heal damage in this game so you have to take as little as possible. For the little minions the boss spawns, its better to take 2 slashes at them and the run away a bit and take another two slashes to avoid them hitting you. For stats, I think you should put most everything into Strength and Dexterity to max your damage while just learning the patterns of the enemy’s movement to avoid attacks altogether.

Don’t forget to hit the thieves and collect jewels as upgrading your sword is very important to success. My main complaint is that the last two kinds of Jewels just do not drop often enough, making that second upgrade next to impossible to get. The Limit break ability is pretty cool, but I would not depend much upon it as basic slashing will do most of your damage.

Do not get trapped on one side but run from side to side on the stage while playing. If you learn the enemy’s attacks well enough, you can be sure to win. To be safe, I’d use the first monster as a level-up monsters. Don’t hit him, just avoid his attacks and hit the mouse thief and the little fire things. Concentrate hard on the mouse and get the required jewels to upgrade to the best sword. You should be about level 8 with the best sword when you face the boss’s final form.

Alias 3 is a cool action/shooter game where you are an Artificial lifeform that was created for destruction and sabotage and your very good at it. This is probably the best game of the series so far and features a variety of challenges, levels, and boss fights. Smooth, action-packed gameplay and a well-adjusted difficulty level make this game a enjoyable experience for most of the gaming crowd.

If your having trouble with this game, I’ve posted a video below with someone being awesome as A.L.I.A.S 3, check it out.

Here is a video of someone beating the fighting game Super Mario Combat is a game where Mario gets some serious Kung-fu skills and goes to beat up koopas and bowsers. The game itself is pretty short but it is a decent fighting game as mario throws many punches and kicks. Here’s a video of someone beating the game.

Final Fantasy Sonic X3 continues where 2 left off with sonic facing the guardian of the stone, which he must pwn to get the chaos emerald. This battle is pretty easy and two regular attacks will do the trick. After that, you get the stone and get access to super sonic. Afterwards Aeon and Bass arrive and summon the true guardian to finish sonic while his friend go outside to find Aeon and Bass after they vanish.

Zero and X face Aeon and you can attack and use the overdrive but you can’t beat him and he leaves without killing you. Sonic goes super and prepares to fight true guardian. This episode has lots of narration but unfortunately it doesn’t have a good rpg battle as they are all fruitless or really short and easy. But stayed tuned for the next few episodes, they are much better.

Samurai Master is a fun game where you are a samurai who is under a brutal and ambitious warlord. Unable to just sit by and watch the warlord is doing to the citizens, you decide to go to Tokyo(Edo) to warn the Shogun of the warlord’s evil plans. You must fight many samurai on the way to the capital and prove your honor and skills. This is truly one game I really enjoyed and did not get bored of the hacking and slashing quickly. The journey is broken up into several mini-levels from city to city.

First, you will face swordsman and archers. I suggest you go to the two ends of the map first to find the archers and kill them first, otherwise you will lose life by their arrows. Just jump over the swordsman to get to the archers and watch for the arrows as they fly close to you and jump over them too. Once you eliminate the archers, its easy to kill the swordsman at leisure going from one side to the other. Use that super-dash in emergencies.

Also don’t forget the three guys at the bottom of the map screen, the ones that heal and give upgrades, they are vitally important. The old guy heals you 1000 HP for 2000g. Wait until you lose 1000HP first before you go to him. Don’t go to him whenever you lose 50 HP. I’d get the +70 damage upgrade first before I get the aura and fatal strike upgrades, damage is pretty key. It’ll take you a while to get to Tokyo, buy its a a lot of fun on the way. I’ll post up a video if I can find one. Feel free to discuss.

3000 AD is a retro-style mechwarrior game where you are a disciple of one warlord faction on the brink of space and must destroy another warlord’s faction to gain control. This game embodies the classic Mech-Commander game pretty well, but its not without its flaws. The control layout is solid with A,S,D,W as movement, mouse to fire, and space to fire the missile. However, the one major problem with this game I had was that the contrast between your character, the enemies, and the background was not great enough.

Sometimes during a heated firefight, I had trouble wondering where my guy or the enemies were because they blended too much into the background. Bright colors for the enemy and your character would have helped a lot. Another thing is the difficulty. I had trouble avoiding enemy fire while firing at them(partially because I found it hard to see some of them). I usually had my health knocked down pretty far after just one or two waves and the missions were seemingly impossible to complete at times. The difficulty of the game needs to be toned down for casual gamers to truly enjoy. Nontheless, gameplay was pretty solid and if you were a mech-commander fan, you’ll probably enjoy this game.

Double Edge is a cool fighting and hack’n’slash game where you play a hero sent to an undead kingdom to defeat its evil overlord before he overruns the land with his undead minions(sound familiar?). This game played a lot like the earlier “Achilles” game in that it was smooth and it had nice animations for hacking and slashing enemies, along with the blood and graphics. But as with all these games, after a while, it just stopped appealing to me any longer — I can only hack and slash for so long.

If you really enjoy these games, then give it a try, it’ll be good at least for a break between work stints.

Hobo Brawl is a game where you play the part of a hobo that got up on the wrong side of the bed and now has it in for everyone. Controls for this game are easy with the arrow keys for moving and ‘A’ and ‘S’ attacking. You start off with just basic attacks but as you progress in the game you will get access to more powerful combos like spitting and using snot through specific sequences of the attack keys. Chaining up combos is powerful as it confuses the enemies and lets you take them out.

Many of the baddies come in cars so you’ll have to avoid the car when it comes around on the first pass. While some people will scoff at the political incorrectness and stereotypes of this game, I’ve never cared too much about political correctness and enjoyed all of this game including the political incorrectness and I encourage people to make more games like this. Fighting/action games that play smoothly with easy controls but are diverse and include combos are scarce these days. Play this game, its a real treat.

Portal War is a fun fighting game where you choose to be a character from one of the major game portals and fight the other portal characters to the death. This concept is great and the game runs smoothly but unfortunately lacks in diversity and is just too easy. There are two main modes, arcade and versus. In arcade, you fight each enemy one on one until you beat everyone. In versus, you fight against 3 AI’s in a battle Royale. I found that the easiest way to win on versus was just to stand aside and let the other three beat the crap out of each other.

On arcade, just face the direction of your opponent and push ‘A’ and you can beat the game. It was fun for one run through, but not something you can play for very long.