Christmas Gaming: Santa Ride! 2 (PC)

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You can download Santa Ride! 2 here (It’s a German site)

This game consist of only one level and your mission is to collect presents and deliver them to the children in the village. The graphics are quite nice and the music is festive (though, as with the other games so far, it becomes repetetive). Controls are the biggest issue here as Santa’s sleigh is quite hard to control. It’s hard to negotiate corners without crashing into a house, wall, lamp post etc. The only alternative is to pull the handbrake (or sleigh brake as it’s called in the game) which doesn’t make controlling the sleigh any easier. Another problem is collecting gifts and different goodies: Santa mostly collects them but it happens that he just pushes them away. Also, once you’ve collected the presents it’s hard to make out the houses you have to deliver them to, though the game reminds you to press ‘Space’ to throw the gifts. What’s pretty cool is that you can ‘Ho Ho Ho’ during the game and you have to be relatively quick about distributing presents or your ‘Faith in Santa Meter’ is gonna go empty and the children will stop believing in him. All in all, it’s an okay game which would’ve been better with better controls and more levels – and more reindeer pulling the sleigh as there are only six 😉

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Christmas Gaming: Xmas Special (PC)

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Today I played Xmas Special which you can download here (It’s a German site)

In this short game of only three levels Santa Claus has to collect a certain amount of presents and stars (though they can be sugar canes etc. as well) in order to open a portal so he can teleport to the next level. The game has a wintry and festive atmosphere with snow lying around and Christmas music playing. The music, however, becomes quite annoying at some point as it’s always some country version of Jingle Bells being played over and over again. Santa Claus can basically fly through the small levels (I know he can. He has to get up onto the roofs and into the chimneys somehow, hasn’t he) which is a cool features but can also become pretty dangerous as sometimes he “flies” up a wall, over it and falls to his certain death. The levels themselves are quite similar, though some of the presents and stars are hidden well and outside of the levels boundaries. Of course, Santa has to face some enemies during the game in the form of evil snowballs that either roam around the level or rise up and down with the help of a propellor on their heads. One can either shoot them with snowballs or avoid them all together. All in all it’s a fun little game one can play through in no time.

Christmas Gaming: Santa Claus in Trouble (PC)

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I decided to create a new “Gaming” category though I don’t know ho it’ll turn out eventually. What I do know, however, is that in preparation for Christmas I’m going to write about some Christmas games. The basic rules are:

– Each game is either free to download or free to play
– I’ll limit myself to playing between 30 minutes and one hour
– Each review will be pretty short and nothing more than a first impression (between five and ten sentences)

Let’s see how this turns out. The first game I played is called Santa Claus in Trouble which you can download here (It’s a German site)

Santa Claus has to walk through different levels and collect presents. What’s cool about this game (at first) is once the start screen appears famous Christmas tunes start to play (e.g. Jingle Bells or Silent Night). This, however, is also the most annoying thing as the music is quite repetetive and becomes more of a distraction than an addition to the game. Collecting presents is being made harder by the player having only a certain amount of time and lives. Although there are arrows showing the way one can still take other routes first in order to collect more presents. Jumping from one platform to another needs some timing while the controls need some getting used to. What’s particularly cool is the game’s wintry atmosphere with snow lying around and parts of the landscape are made of gingerbread. The graphics are quite good for such a freeware title, the music would be if it wouldn’t become too annoying too fast. All in all, it’s quite a nice game for lunch breaks or whatever kind of break you need to take.

Demons Sleeping in the Mirror – Seventh Video Online

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I decided to upload the music of my Demons Sleeping in the Mirror project on YouTube.

Check out the project here

Check out the lyrics here

Check out the video

Feel free to share your thoughts, comments, feedback!

Demons Sleeping in the Mirror – Sixth Video Online

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I decided to upload the music of my Demons Sleeping in the Mirror project on YouTube.

Check out the project here

Check out the lyrics here

Check out the video

Feel free to share your thoughts, comments, feedback!

Changes

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As the title suggests something has changed. A long time ago, I posted a text about my second album that I’m working on. This album had the working title and was going to be called Something to remind You. However, in the last few weeks I started working on the music again and decided to change the projects title. It’s now called: Tales from the Ashtray. I have to admit I really like that title (and I don’t say that very often) as it sums up what the lyrics are all about: memories that I’ve left behind but that are still lingering somewhere, some still smoldering.
Anyways, what do you think of the title?

By the way, feel free to check out the lyrics here