Video Gaming Torpor

I've been in a gaming funk lately. I've been trying to finish playing games I start all the way through for the past year or so but it gets tough when you play a couple of terrible titles in a row.

Spongebob Squarepants: Creature From Krusty Krab seemed promising. I recently played another Squarepants title, Battle for Bikini Bottom, which was an excellent platformer but this one was horribly simple and repetitive. It's especially sad because it looks amazing and it's very well made, the game play just falls way short. It would be a great starter game for those new to video gaming, but it's hard to recommend it to anyone else.

Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc is another depressing situation. Rayman 2 was an amazing game, I'd easily place it somewhere high in my top 10 favorite 3d platformers. With just Rayman 2 and Beyond Good and Evil, Michael Ancel has secured his place in gaming history(...and my heart) but unfortunately, he didn't really have anything to do with Rayman 3 and it really shows. The controls are really strange, the worst being when you jump, the forward momentum slows while you finish a floaty slow motion jump. It's baffling and hard to get adjusted to. The camera is also very oddly dynamic and hard to control. Again, the game looks beautiful, it's just a shame that there's no game play to match it.