There’s a wealth of games hitting the shelves this week, with plenty likely to get lost in the melee thanks to an incredibly busy release schedule.

One title likely to get overlooked (and criminally under-promoted by Nintendo) is Make 10: A Journey of Numbers. It’s not really for adults, but its whimsical storybook presentation makes its maths problems much more palatable for younger gamers. It’s a game of immense charm and style, and comes strongly recommended to those with siblings or other relatives of a certain age.

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood is another (vain?) attempt to resurrect the flagging career of the blue ‘hog, whose fall from grace in recent years kind of makes him the videogame Amy Winehouse (albeit with better teeth). While I’ve not played enough to judge Bioware’s odd little role-player, it makes for a fascinating change for the spiked one, and it looks beautiful in places, featuring a combat system that reminds me of Ouendan - which can never be an entirely bad thing. Time will tell whether it has the depth to match its technical competence, but I’m optimistic this could be the start of a comeback for Sonic. Whether the world really wants that remains to be seen.

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This entry was posted on Friday, September 26th, 2008 at 3:45 pm by Chris Schilling
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