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I've Got Those Low-down Gamer Blues


    Hey, everyone. A funny thing happened to me. I was playing Max Payne Mobile on my I-pad and I was being meticulous about doing a manual save every few minutes, lest I have to go back very far. So I do a save and what happens? Oh yeah, I immediately get 'killed'. Then, when I 'tap to load last save' I immediately get shot again. I swear, it is like a groundhog day movie. What would Bill Murray do?
     So, I actually deleted the game, then went to the app store and re-downloaded it. So, I was able to start the game over at chapter 1. I got very frustrated with this as you can imagine and tapped chapter select for my latest game save. I thought that having re-downloaded it, it might have mercy on me and start me at the save point before the instant kill spot I was on. No, not so much. Now I am in a constant rehash of a bad moment. The bullet comes so fast I can't run. Sigh. I would download it again but my internet company is doing their Gig limit, which sucks.
     If I was in New Orleans, playing in a club, I'd play some of them old time, low down gamer blues. Then I could be like Neil Diamond says in Song Sung Blue and just sing the blues until I get happy.
    I've been playing a cool little game called Paper Monsters. It is a Mario type of game. The graphics are great and the gameplay is pretty darn good. I think it is made by the folks that made Razor Salvation. Your little square-headed person runs around collecting buttons and jumping on monsters' heads to squish them. You drop through pipes into the bowels of the earth, which is a little scary when you have been in some of the holes I've been in. There are platforms that travel on cables and they insist that you time your exit without getting killed by a monster. All in all, it is well worth the dollar I paid for it.
    I'm sure that you've heard by now. The Shadowgun folks are coming out with a cool, zombie-killing game around the end of June. Also, the rumors are getting very strong that the next update for IOS will enable Siri on our I-Pads. I hope that this is true because I get lonely sometimes. Ha, ha? I wonder if I can say, "Siri, see if that game is still on sale" ?
     You have doubtless heard that there will be a new Spiderman game on IOS this summer. This is to promote the new movie, of course. I started to buy the new Avengers game the other day, but it looks like an interactive comic book. For a mere 99 cents I should have tried it, but again, I am trying to slack off on Gig usage.
    Speaking of 99 cent games, I have been playing a lot of one called Zombie Air Sniper. I will do a full review on it before the weekend is over.
    I'm CE Wills, the underachiever meritorious of gaming.
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