Tag Archives: Try-It Tuesday

Try-It Tuesday: CLOCKWORK TALES Of Glass and Ink

Posted on November 16, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

This week I tried a game called CLOCKWORK TALES: Of Glass and Ink, a throwback to my days of playing point-and-click puzzle adventures on the PC. A decade or so ago, when my kids were little and I didn’t have a lot … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: ADVENTURE TIME Finn & Jake Investigations

Posted on November 8, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

After the month of October, chock full of Halloween creepiness and games like Until Dawn: Rush of Blood, The Town of Light, and BioShock: The Collection, it was time to try something simple and lighthearted this week. My 13-year-old tried the … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: UNTIL DAWN Rush of Blood

Posted on November 1, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

My husband got UNTIL DAWN: RUSH OF BLOOD back when he got the PSVR, but we’d forgotten all about it until I found it the other day, still wrapped in plastic. Such serendipity! The perfect game for a Halloween Try-It … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: THE TOWN OF LIGHT

Posted on October 25, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

With Halloween a week away, I decided to try the psychological horror game THE TOWN OF LIGHT. Developed by LKA, it was released for PC in February 2016 and for consoles earlier this year. The setting is based on an actual mental hospital in Tuscany and … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: METAL GEAR SOLID V

Posted on October 18, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

I’d never played a Metal Gear Solid game before, so when Playstation offered the 2015 METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN free for PS+ members, I decided to try it. From a few Youtube videos, the game looked like an open world … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: THE DEADLY TOWER OF MONSTERS

Posted on October 11, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

Today I sampled a 2016 retro sci-fi game called THE DEADLY TOWER OF MONSTERS that pays humorous tribute to such classics as King Kong, Flash Gordon, Planet of the Apes, Forbidden Planet, and the stop-action animation of Ray Harryhausen. This top-down … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: MURDERED Soul Suspect

Posted on October 4, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

My first Try-It Tuesday game for October is the ghostly MURDERED: SOUL SUSPECT developed by Airtight Games and published in 2014 by Square Enix. Ronon O’Connor is a detective who must solve his own murder from beyond the grave in Salem, Massachusetts. This is … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: JOB SIMULATOR

Posted on September 27, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

For this weeks’ Try-It Tuesday, I not only tried a new game, I tried the PSVR for the very first time with JOB SIMULATOR by Owlchemy Labs. In JOB SIMULATOR, it’s 2050 and robots are fascinated by the lives of the humans they’ve replaced. Players … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: THE CREW

Posted on September 20, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

Starfish central gaming joined me from the UK via PS4 party chat for this week’s Try-It Tuesday livestream of THE CREW, an action-driving game developed by Ivory Tower and published by Ubisoft in December 2014. I barely scratched the surface, but THE CREW … Continue reading →

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Try-It Tuesday: UNRAVEL

Posted on September 16, 2017 by J.L. Hilton

This week I tried UNRAVEL, a side-scrolling puzzle platformer made by the Swedish company Coldwood Interactive and published by Electronic Arts in February 2016 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Microsoft Windows. This is a very sweet game with a … Continue reading →

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