#Disney Interactive
#Disney Interactive
The Games We Played is a year end round up of thoughts about games we spent time with.
By Omar (@siegarettes)
When Harmonix makes something, I pay attention. Their contributions to the Guitar Hero and Rock Band franchises creates a veneer of commercialization, especially after the former franchise over saturated the market, but look closely and you’ll find a constantly refined craft and passion for both music and games. (A bit perfect for our focus here at clickbliss). These are the people who brought both a new Dance Central title and the beat influenced shoot-em-up A City Sleeps to us this year.
In that context, who else would be better to bring us a 2014 update to Disney's Fantasia? Despite my reservations about how successful a Kinect based Disney game could be, I found it worth at least worth paying attention to with Harmonix at the helm. Besides, I needed something to justify my Kinect purchase aside from Child of Eden and yelling at my squadmates in Mass Effect.
Of course, what really drew me in was the tracklist. Leading with pop hits like Lady Gaga’s “Applause” and Lorde’s “Royals”, moving to well known classical pieces from the Fantasia movies, it then spin offs to Queen, Depeche Mode, Kimbra, and…Jimi Hendrix?
By Omar (@siegarettes)
I’m a SEGA kid. Despite never having owned a Genesis (or even played an actual unit in the flesh), SEGA’s catalog of esoteric characters and arcade legacy built itself a home in my heart. Because of that, the original Sega All Stars Racing, with its litany of references to classic SEGA franchises proved to be an unexpected joy from me. It helped that it was a decent (if absurdly unbalanced) racer as well.
All Stars Transformed proves to be an equally joyous celebration, while also sharpening up the racing mechanics and adding transforming vehicles to the mix. Yes, as the race goes on paths will change with events in the stage, adding an element of dynamism to the tracks.