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Super rub a dub ps48/7/2023 ![]() I'm not going to pretend that Super Rub 'a' Dub is a game you should rush out and play right now, nor am I even going to suggest it's half-decent (though being from Sumo Digital, you know it can't be all bad). The perfect venue for polite chaos to erupt in. And it's also a beauty: look down upon these matchbox worlds with their smooth arcs and sun-bleached buildings. But it's also a playground of modes and rules and tweaks. This is a slot car game with all the lane-changing and horn-tooting that suggests. The best of the PixelJunk games? Certainly the most loveable. Thanks to the combined efforts of the playerbase, Noby Noby Boy reached the sun way back in 2015, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't take a chance to play this fantastic thing. Noby Noby Boy is perhaps his strangest yet, a freeform toy that had players consuming their surroundings in an attempt to lengthen their character - and to work together to reach out to the stars and beyond. There once was a time when PlayStation was a byword for carefree, creative oddities that pushed at the boundaries of what we expect from a video game, and they don't get much more creative or carefree than the work of Katamari Damacy creator Keita Takahashi. ![]() It's a strange, beautiful and very playable thing, and exactly the sort of game that Sony doesn't seem too interested in anymore. An offbeat top-down action game that has you shepherding crowds through a zombie outbreak, its use of satellite imagery gives it an edge that hasn't dulled to this day. And that Lunar Lander heft to the movement gives it a wonderfully grumpy personality.Īnother example of the out-there brilliance of Japan Studio that once was at the heart of PlayStation, The Last Guy is a slight but nevertheless hugely enjoyable experiment. Even if the game wasn't a treat, it would still be a delight just to look at. Conserve fuel, gad about, blast anything that moves in a shower of fireworks. Oof.Ĭor, but Gravity Crash is video games, isn't it? The neon lines pick out alien worlds and deadly foes. It did all this while being genuinely funny, too, offering weird specifics, wonderfully scrappy art - the kind of thing that feels like it's been doodled in the margins of a school textbook - and a great sense of feedback. This beautiful hand-crafted spin on WarioWare took its players around every one of the handheld's bizarre means of input. By killing off Frobisher Says, Sony is killing the unofficial introduction to all things Vita. Thankfully this superlative version of one of Sega's most iconic 90s racers lives on via backwards compatibility on Xbox, though that only puts its imminent absence on PlayStation in relief - here's an all-time great, brilliantly restored in HD with all the wow and pizazz that once melted the faces of young observers at the Trocadero perfectly intact, as are its selection of all-time great tunes. Rebel, a beautiful PlayStation Mobile game, and a shooter in which you can't shoot at all, is still in regular rotation on my Vita. PomPom is no stranger to having its games nuked by Sony, incidentally. This is a side-on shooter in which you move between different lanes, blasting away at on-coming baddies and occasionally collecting something. PomPom Games should be considered indie royalty, and the disappearance of Alien Zombie Death should be a cause for wailing and the tearing of garments. ![]() ![]() For now, remember the many hours it spent bringing gorgeous frustration to Sony devices. With simple controls and a fiendish design, this would work so beautifully on the Switch, but that's a hope for another day. What a beautiful, challenging thing this is: a game about moving an octopus between one wall and the next, collecting stuff, avoiding stuff, and marveling at the sheer variety on offer as the levels fly by. The 2D Adventures of Rotating Octopus Character ![]()
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