Weekly Round-up for Week Ending 8/31
Touch Arcade Reviews
This week produced more fruit from Touch Arcade than I've had time to plant over the past few months. The harvests should only prove more bountiful as this month wears on. Check back often for updates, including a huge update on STAY AWHILE AND LISTEN.
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* Freedom Fall: Excerpt - "Freedom Fall casts you in the role of a roguish hero who bears a striking resemblance to JRPG fan-favorite Crono. Your adventure begins at the tippity top of a tower. A message scrawled on the wall behind you provides instructions on basic movement. A few screens down and you discover that these sloppily-written missives serve a greater purpose than a game tutorial. They were written by your captor, a princess whose father built the prison you now call home."
* The Woods: Excerpt - "Staying alive against the ghosts proves tricky. Their mournful wails grow closer as they move in, which should carry weight: far equals good, close equals bad. At first, though, the ghosts seemed indifferent to my proximity. In one instance, the camera was wrested away from me, whirling me around to face a ghost who had creeped in on one side and killed me instantly. Staying on the move kept them at arm's length, but I still felt like I was missing some other, more surefire way of shrugging them off."
* It's been a while since I posted a flurry of reviews on Touch Arcade, and the's site undergone a significant redesign. Among other new features, you can now click an author's name and get a list of all articles written by that author. While I plan to utilize The Vault for my favorite publications, I figured I'd drop a link to my TA byline here so you can check out all of my work. You know, in case you're that bored one day.
This week produced more fruit from Touch Arcade than I've had time to plant over the past few months. The harvests should only prove more bountiful as this month wears on. Check back often for updates, including a huge update on STAY AWHILE AND LISTEN.
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* Freedom Fall: Excerpt - "Freedom Fall casts you in the role of a roguish hero who bears a striking resemblance to JRPG fan-favorite Crono. Your adventure begins at the tippity top of a tower. A message scrawled on the wall behind you provides instructions on basic movement. A few screens down and you discover that these sloppily-written missives serve a greater purpose than a game tutorial. They were written by your captor, a princess whose father built the prison you now call home."
* The Woods: Excerpt - "Staying alive against the ghosts proves tricky. Their mournful wails grow closer as they move in, which should carry weight: far equals good, close equals bad. At first, though, the ghosts seemed indifferent to my proximity. In one instance, the camera was wrested away from me, whirling me around to face a ghost who had creeped in on one side and killed me instantly. Staying on the move kept them at arm's length, but I still felt like I was missing some other, more surefire way of shrugging them off."
* It's been a while since I posted a flurry of reviews on Touch Arcade, and the's site undergone a significant redesign. Among other new features, you can now click an author's name and get a list of all articles written by that author. While I plan to utilize The Vault for my favorite publications, I figured I'd drop a link to my TA byline here so you can check out all of my work. You know, in case you're that bored one day.