{"id":1241,"date":"2012-02-06T17:52:37","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T00:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2012-02-06T17:52:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T00:52:37","slug":"6-month-review-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/6-month-review-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Month Review Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I realize it has been months since I&#8217;ve posted anything on this blog. If you actually are still reading this I&#8217;m guessing you subscribe to the RSS.\u00a0 So, thanks for not deleting me. I&#8217;m going to try and do better about regular posts. I&#8217;ve been working on Batman: Arkham City for a while now so hopefully I can get my review together for it soon.\u00a0 Until then though I wanted to mention some of the reviews I&#8217;ve been posting on other sites in these last months.\u00a0 Here is a rundown.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Defense Grid: You Monster DLC Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vgrevolution.com\/2011\/12\/defense-grid-you-monster-dlc-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Defense Grid: You Monster DLC Review<\/a> (XBLA) &#8211; Great tower defense game now with GLaDOS?\u00a0 Yes please.I don&#8217;t care if the game is a couple years old.\u00a0 Please keep releasing more DLC for it.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Slydris Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vgrevolution.com\/2012\/01\/slydris-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Slydris Review<\/a> (PC &#8211; 9.2\/10) &#8211; One of the most addictive games I&#8217;ve played in a long time. With modes that range from relaxing to challenging it has something for everyone.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"SoulCalibur V Review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vgrevolution.com\/2012\/02\/soulcalibur-v-review\/\" target=\"_blank\">SoulCalibur V Review<\/a> (Xbox 360 &#8211; 8.2\/10) &#8211; A lot of fun playing against friends.\u00a0 Controls came back quickly even though I was really rusty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/blog\/5210-iron-brigade-rise-of-the-martian-bear-dlc-review\">Iron Brigade: Rise of the Martian Bear DLC Review<\/a> (XBLA) &#8211; Challenging but a lot of fun.\u00a0 Nice to see the added Survival mode even if it took a while for the DLC to release.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/blog\/5209-puddle-review\">Puddle Review<\/a> (XBLA &#8211; 7\/10) &#8211; Why is this now on Android\/iOS instead?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/blog\/4756-orcs-must-die-review\">Orcs Must Die! Review<\/a> (XBLA &#8211; 10\/10) &#8211; So addicting. Gets brutally hard on Nightmare difficulty but feels so good when you win.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/blog\/4826-dungeon-defenders-review\">Dungeon Defenders Review<\/a> (XBLA &#8211; 10\/10) and the first DLC pack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/blog\/5041-dungeon-defenders-quest-for-the-lost-eternia-shards-part-1-review\">Dungeon Defenders Quest for the Lost Eternia Shards: Part 1 Review<\/a>. I&#8217;m looking forward to the next 3 packs coming out and leveling up my Squire even more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Xbox Live Indie Games Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/component\/content\/article\/66-shooter\/5138-hypership-still-out-of-control\" target=\"_blank\">Hypership Still Out of Control<\/a>\u00a0 (9\/10)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/component\/content\/article\/62-platformer\/4865-escape-goat\" target=\"_blank\">Escape Goat<\/a> (9\/10)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xblaratings.com\/component\/content\/article\/68-strategy-a-simulation\/5123-all-your-creeps\" target=\"_blank\">All Your Creeps<\/a> (8\/10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I realize it has been months since I&#8217;ve posted anything on this blog. If you actually are still reading this I&#8217;m guessing you subscribe to the RSS.\u00a0 So, thanks for not deleting me. I&#8217;m going to try and do better about regular posts. I&#8217;ve been working on Batman: Arkham City for a while now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,29,90],"tags":[226,227,228,7,230,229,215,30],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-360","category-xbox-live-arcade","category-xbox-live-indie-games","tag-defense-grid","tag-dungeon-defeners","tag-orcs-must-die","tag-review","tag-slydris","tag-soulcalibur-v","tag-trenched","tag-xbla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/andymerrill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}