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My I-Pad Runneth Over

   Hey, everyone. There are a lot of games out, right now. New games and updates to existing games. I hardly have time to play them all or review them all, certainly. God of Blades is on sale for 99 cents and I bought it. Angry Birds Star Wars has issued an update for the Ice Planet Hoth section and I just downloaded it. Awesome, a rather striking run and jump game is another I downloaded. I think it was a dollar.
     Writer Rumble is a puzzle game in which you have critters that are attacking you. You form words from letters on a screen and once formed, the words are hurled at the voracious creatures, killing them. You can hurl words at your friends if you like. Not bad words, but words you form from the letters. Ha, ha. The coolest part of it is that you choose different personalities of famous writers like Edgar Allen Poe as your avatar. Each one has different attributes. I haven't played this game a lot, yet, but it has a different flavor to it and would appear to be well worth uno dinero.
    Speaking of awesome visuals, you should see Lili, an adventure game which uses the unreal engine to chronicle the travels of a young girl through a colorful, animated world. It too is on sale for, you guessed it, a dollar. I am also trying out games like Stan Lee's Verticus which went free over the weekend. It is fairly fun. You are falling into the center of the earth's core and shifting your body to pick up good things and dodge bad things, sort of like life.
    If you still haven't bought Storm the Train for 99 cents, you are missing one of the better games on the store. I have played it for hours and hours. The farther I go, the cooler it gets. Now I have more drones that come and fight for me. They fly or grind along the ground as I advance and take care of my 'light work'. Ha, ha. There is also a power-up where you get a cool space suit and start shooting blue lasers at the zombies and skeletons, ninjas and the like. This is my favorite method of spreading terror on a train truly bound for nowhere. If Kenny Rogers played video games, this would be his style. (This is a play on words for Kenny's song, The Gambler)
    I tried to download an update for Infinity Blade 2 (an older update) this morning and was politely told by my Padster that there was no room at the inn. 64 gigs and stuffed to the gills. Hopefully, I'll be back to give an in depth review of some of these games in the near future. May your device ever be full of good things. Go in peace, gamer.
P.S. Hey, I almost forgot. I was playing Blood Roofs and bought an upgrade called Warp. It puts a glowing pink circle on the screen. If you jump through it you are transported over a long stretch of roofs, in the air. A monster smashes out of a building, chasing you, as the woman you are carrying shoots backward at it. It was very cool.
I'm CE Wills.
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