Kirbys Nightmare in Dreamland review

I have always been very fond of Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland because it's one of the games I most remember playing when I was younger. The games plot is as follows. Kirby is sleeping when he realizes he isn't having any dreams so he ventures to the fountain of dreams which supplies all the dreams for the people in dream land. (the area Kirby lives in this game is called dream land) When he arrives Kirby is shocked to find king Dedede (one of the main villains/friends of Kirby) bathing in the fountain of dreams, and while doing so he broke the star rod which supplies power to the fountain which in turn supplies dreams. Kirby defeats him but before he can but the star rod back nightmares appear and steal the fountain and the rod, and now Kirby must venture off to save the fountain and star rod.

The gameplay is simple (mostly because there was only a d-pad and a and b buttons) you travelled through a few worlds each with a different theme (woods, ocean, mountain etc) each of the worlds have a few levels and then a boss level which again was themed to the world. (the boss of the woods world is a giant angry tree) until you finally made it to the last level and then eventually complete the game.

While at a young age you don't see much wrong with it a lot of Kirby universe can seem a little weird at times. Some people on the internet even go as far to say Kirby the cute squishy pink hero of the game is a xenophobe (someone with irrational fear or hate of people who look or act differently than themselves) because of his literally eating and killing every single creature that crosses his path (some of the enemies in the game don't even attack Kirby on purpose)

The game is actually a remake of a Nintendo Entertainment System game called Kirby's adventure. The only differences being a 32-bit game instead of 8-bit the color palate, some enemies being changed, and now when Kirby absorbed an enemy's power he got a little hat and sometimes a color change to represent the power (I.E. when he swallows a flaming enemy he gets a little redder and has a crown with fire coming out of it on his head)

(fun fact on all american Kirby games the boxart shows Kirby looking angry or frowning while in japan all the boxart shows him smiling and looking happy)

here are some pictures of the game in action:

payday 2 the continuation of a bank robbery game

A few years back a game called payday the heist was released by overkill software a slightly indie studio, shortly followed by an immediate cult following to the game. The reason being its uniqueness this game had one objective and that was to rob whatever place you were in of all its valuable. Now a few years later the sequel came out and with a multitude of improvements.

The four characters of the game are Dallas: a patriotic mobster like person who belives his ways as a robber is just another way to make money rather than criminal acts, Hoxton: The original hoxton was a short tempered young british man but for unknown reasons is mia in this game and is replaced with a rather lame sounding american man who is dallas' brother, next is chains at a younger age he could never stay out of trouble and at an older age was kicked from the marines due to his violent ways and was eventually hired by a criminal group leading to his joining of the payday gang. And finally wolf, wolf used to be a regular man he lived in sweden and owned a computer software company but after his company went bankrupt and his family left him wolf went insane and acted out robberies and other things of violence that he had seen in movies eventually leading to his realization that he liked that way of life.

Payday 2 starts off with you master planner (who calls himself Bain) welcomes you back from your vacation saying your "services" are needed once again and after getting your starting kit and a short but to the point tutorial you thrown into the game. The mission browser is stylized as a special network for criminals called crime.net and its here where you will select the heist you will take part in. After getting into a game or making one you wait a bit to have the game filled with other players and then once started you are taken to a briefing screen where you will get info on the heist its here that you also select your weapon and equipment to take along. The missions vary from a 1 day bank heist to (the longest ones so far only reaching 3 days days being individual missions inside the mission) and dealing with money and jewelry to making meth and transporting cocaine and even stealing paintings.

while the first game was an amazing work of art it was lacking a very major component, customization. The game had variablility in the placement of cameras, workers, guards, etc but there was no customization, this has definitely been fixed in payday2. To start there are about a dozen primary and a dozen secondary weapons each with weapon part customizations from sights to barrel extensions all of them show up as a unique model on the weapon in game too.And they also added mask customization to the game as well, now you can collect masks and customize their looks with materials patterns and colors which can lead to some very creative masks! all unlocks are aquired through a literal pick a card system at the end of each heist where longer and more difficult heist reward you with a rarer bounty than an easy short mission.

The gameplay is very tight the controls are very convenient and can be remapped to your liking if wanted. The enemies (fbi, swat, gang members, etc) come in waves with breathing time to secure loot heal yourself and scavenge for ammo between each wave. sometimes the ai is a little brain dead on easier missions but on the more difficult ones they seem to work fine (this will hopefully be improved on in a future update) Along with all of this the game is accompanied by the musical works of simon viklund who made the soundtrack for both of the payday games (and both soundtracks are definitely worth listening to!)

overall I would give payday 2 a 7.8/10 its a great game but it needs to improve a few things before it can truly reach its full potential.

a website used by players to plan out their skill trees http://www.pd2skills.info/

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From left to right: Hoxton, Dallas, Wolf, Chains
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some masks





A screenshot from the standard bank heist mission

just cause 2 multiplayer mod a chaotic calamity filled cluster f**k

The game is called just cause 2, its a highly addictive and fun free roaming third person shooting game with a high modability factor (meaning plenty of user made content for the game) in this case a very special mod indeed. Introducing just cause 2 multiplayer mod possibly one of the funnest and funniest things I have ever played! The original game just cause 2 was made as a single player only title with no online capabilities but thanks to a group of amazing people all that and more has been changed! After going through a simple setup and naming you character you get thrown into the just cause 2 world, except this time there are up to 5000 other people doing the same thing you are which is driving, flying, and blowing s**t up. The mod is still in beta but has a planned full release in this month or early october so as of currently the only way to play is to wait for a beta test (one is currently happening and ends this friday) while the game can be played by yourself its just not as fun without calling a friend on skype and flying a boat across a mountain range together (yes you read that right). which brings me to the next thing the modifiers in the game, by typing /boost into the chat box you get the option to adjust the speed of your boost, if maxed out you can pretty much fly anything i.e. cars over oceans) and also makes for some hilarious looking moments. The game also has activities constantly happening like races demolition derbys and deathmatches all of which will award you in game cash for completing them (money is also awarded for killing other players but only a small amount) this money can then be used to buy specific weapons, vehicles and player models for you to use. While the mod is great fun it has its fair share of problems the main one being random crashes. Just yesterday I was playing the game with a friend of mine and combined together the game crashed on us say 8-9 times and we played for about an hour and a half. Hopefully this annoyance will e fixed with full release and if not... it's still one of the best things I ever played below is a link to the mods website and some screenshots

website: http://www.jc-mp.com/

(please excuse any profanity in the text box as I had no control over what others playing the game at the time said and there is not an option to turn the text box off)

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