Since I haven’t really been able to find any games here recently that I’m interested in playing, I’ve taken to trolling the PlayStation Network in a vane attempt to find something worth buying.

Be careful what you wish for.

PixelJunk Monsters is your classic tower defense game where you have to destroy wave after wave of bad guys in an attempt to save your flock.

I downloaded the demo with the expressed purpose of wasting maybe thirty minutes and then carrying on with my normal day-to-day activities.

Yeah. That didn’t happen.

After playing the demo for two hours, I finally gave in and paid the $9.99 for the complete game. It’s been well worth the money.

I’ve managed to waste hours of potentially constructive time on the same level and I eventually had to bow down to God Google for help.

I’ll just play Monsters till Overlord: Raising Hell comes out and then I’ll stop ’cause I can stop whenever I want to…really I can.

I’m officially a year late with this game.

Not this game specifically since it is an expansion, but I’m a year past the original being released.

Please forgive me. [Apparently, I'm not the only one who's just now getting around to this game.]

Since my PC dislikes anything more intense than Sims 2 and I don’t have a 360, the chances of me playing the original are pretty bleak but I’m cool with that.

Overlord: Raising Hell is set to hit June 24th and I’m willing to wait and obsessively play the demo. Raising Hell is Overlord’s foray into the world of the PS3 and from what I played today, I’m going to thoroughly enjoy this game.

From the start the humor reminded me of MediEvil. The game has a dark, quirky thing going on that really appeals to me and while the camera angles had a habit of annoying me, there’s just something cathartic about sicking your minions on a flock of fluffy white sheep or roasting bad guys like “suckling pigs”.

This is one demo that I had my qualms about based solely on the title and the fact that I was completely oblivious to the prior title’s moderate success.

Expect to hear more about this game in upcoming weeks.

I have a feeling that it might be habit forming.

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