{"id":2851,"date":"2008-10-12T17:54:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T16:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2008-10-14T12:49:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-14T11:49:19","slug":"hudson-entertainment-discount-aqua-forest-neo-same-game-catch-the-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/12\/hudson-entertainment-discount-aqua-forest-neo-same-game-catch-the-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson Entertainment Discount: Aqua Forest, Neo Same Game, Catch the Egg &#8211; [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Update 14.10.08 @ 12.45pm]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These products have now returned to normal pricing:<\/p>\n<p>Aqua Forest  [<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=281893011&amp;mt=8\">App Store<\/a>] &#8211; <em>\u00c2\u00a34.99<\/em><br \/>\nNeo Same Game [<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=289449400&amp;mt=8\">App Store<\/a>] &#8211; <em>\u00c2\u00a32.39<\/em><br \/>\nCatch the Egg [<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=290373030&amp;mt=8\">App Store<\/a>] &#8211; <em>\u00c2\u00a32.39<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Original Article:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ending tonight, and in light of the Tokyo Game Show 2008, Hudson Entertainment have discounted three of their most well respected gaming titles, Aqua Forest, Neo Same Game and Catch the Egg, from their respective prices to a scrumptious FREE. I didn&#8217;t pass up the opportunity, and I&#8217;m about to review all three titles, on the dawn of them returning to their full price &#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Aqua Forest [<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=281893011&amp;mt=8\">App Store<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taking advantage of a complex multi-physics 2D engine known as OctaveEngine, Aqua forest is a puzzler to be reckoned with. The game offers to initial modes for you experience:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Free<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li> Puzzle<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Choosing the free mode allows you to basically mess about with the physics engine &#8211; and it&#8217;s exceptionally life-like. With the engine, you can simulate the properties of elastic, plastic, various fluids and liquids, and finally gas. Not only that, but you can even manipulate these properties with other properties. For example; water and hot walls, or drawing solids to catch liquids.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d rather challenge yourself, puzzle mode offers countless puzzle modes in which you have to use your logic and the flexibility of physics to complete different varying challenges. Challenges range from catch weightless water in a solid jar, to avoiding scorching walls with a ball of plastic. Usually \u00c2\u00a35.99, this game is a steal at it&#8217;s current FREE price-tag. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Neo Same Game [<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=289449400&amp;mt=8\">App Store<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hudson&#8217;s re-make of their game &#8216;Same Game&#8217;, Neo Same Game comes with some fruitful features aimed at iPhone and iPod touch users. The aim of the game is to clear the blocks my touching a block of corresponding colours. Ran out of blocks? &#8211; Simply shake your device to fill the board up again. You can score combos too. The higher the combo chain, the bigger the score you rack up.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Also included is the ability to tilt &#8211; using the built in accelerometer &#8211; to move the blocks in whichever direction you choose. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Catch the Egg [<a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewSoftware?id=290373030&amp;mt=8\">App Store<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Based on the novel concept, and using a quite unique way of game play, catch the egg is an enthralling game in which you basically have to catch the falling egg from the sky. Trust me &#8211; it&#8217;s harder than it looks. <\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Get this &#8211; you have to line up the virtual hands correctly, then time when the egg is just about ready to catch, and then shake your device at just the right strength. Shake too hard, and you&#8217;ll open your hands to find a cracked egg, too soft? &#8211; and you&#8217;ll find the egg cracked on the pavement as you didn&#8217;t catch it. It&#8217;s replay value is extremely high and it&#8217;s highly addictive &#8211; Catch that egg!<\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><center><\/p>\n<p>Although all visually well designed, Hudson title&#8217;s (or at least the three above I tested) seemed to crash a lot. I was in all of these three titles for no more than say 20 each minutes, and within that time the games had crashed back to the home-screen at least 3 times. But somehow, having paid nothing for any three of the titles, I didn&#8217;t care. Overall the games are fun, inviting and unique &#8211; in a sense. I think Hudson need to push major fixes to all three, for them to become anything near worth \u00c2\u00a32.99. Would I have bought them at their full price? I doubt it.<\/p>\n<p>Get them all FREE, while it lasts!<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Update 14.10.08 @ 12.45pm] These products have now returned to normal pricing: Aqua Forest [App Store] &#8211; \u00c2\u00a34.99 Neo Same Game [App Store] &#8211; \u00c2\u00a32.39 Catch the Egg [App Store] &#8211; \u00c2\u00a32.39 Original Article: Ending tonight, and in light of the Tokyo Game Show 2008, Hudson Entertainment have discounted three of their most well respected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,17],"tags":[928,926,280,925,375,927],"class_list":["post-2851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-store","category-iphone","category-ipod","tag-aqua-forest","tag-catch-the-egg","tag-free","tag-hudson-entertainment","tag-limited-time","tag-neo-same-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}