El Shaddai is a work of art

Not a great game, mind you, but a work of art

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Wait, I'm being harsh on it - this might end up being a great game, but the two and a half stages I've been through so far feel...well, Japanese in all the wrong ways. It's packed with abrupt and awkward cinemas telling an equally awkward story, the camera is locked and slightly crap, and the gameplay has been insanely standard hack-and-slash.

All of that said, hot damn it's pretty. Like, really, really pretty. I'm absolutely loving the art direction and how it alters between stages, and it has one of my favorite intro credit sequences I've experienced in a long while. Well, other than the fucking incomprehensible storytelling it contains.

Neon Fireworks - it's like Tron meets Miyazaki

Playable Painting - platforming watercolor

Then again, when a game looks this good (and hot damn it looks better in motion - like digital neon watercolor, just nuts), I'll cut it some slack on the storytelling department.

For a few more levels, at least.

strategery

Beautiful, super simple to play, crazy deep strategies - it's Risk stripped down to its core, with a super active online community.

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I loved Strategery (direct iTunes link) when it first came out, now I love it even more thanks to realizing it has turn-based online play against random opponents. It's the PERFECT game when you only have seconds at a time to play, which fits my free time to a T.

Looking back, I can easily say it's my most played game of the past couple months...

i remember this

Wow

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Thanks to "I love my kid but she takes up all my free time" fun, playing games that take more than a minute of concentration are pretty much out these days (needless to say, iPhone / iPad apps have become my gaming bread and butter lately). That said, I actually got to play Batman: Arkham City today, for a whole hour! At work. During lunch. But still! Batman! It's great!

Bought a cheap-but-quality carrying case and now my 360 travels with me, rather than just collecting dust at home.