Games with new themes

Coil: Coil is definitely one of those artsy games, that if you didn't read too much of a description, you wouldn't instantly understand what its about.

It turns out its a game about pregnancy, or moreso the conception. With the creepy music constantly playing in the background its really hard to know if its a game about consenual sex or rape but then wishing the rapist was still around. I couldn't tell but it was certainly an interesting play as it only used mouse gestures, no clicking or keyboarding. I enjoyed it but was pretty creeped out by it but kept playing as the text inbetween the little games was very gripping and written in in a great way.

And yet it moves: AYIM is your standard platformer but its really taking a different approach to it, much like Braid did with all of its levels revolving around the control of time. You control your unnamed character with A and D and jump with W but then rotate the world 90 degrees using the left and right arrow keys. Having to rotate the world let for some puzzles, which is mostly how to get around things by moving it round a few times to get around an obstacle but at the same time very infuriating because he kept his momentum as you rotated so you can rotate and still die by falling 2cms.

Something else i loved was the art style. Everything looks as though it was cut out of paper. The main character is plain white and looks like he is wearing socks, but the world has some nice textures over it and overall a great looking game.

Mevo and the Grooveriders: A new sort of rhythm game. In the style of Beatmania when you press a key when it goes over an indicator. This is a sort of platform game however with no platforming involved. You play as a grooverider, you chose a stage which is essentially a song and they run across the platforms passing through the left and right beats. To which you press that button. Its a very simple concept but kind of a hard game. It offers a wide range of customisation. I liked it because it was different from the usual rhythm genre but the songs were too bland and monotone to be a decent music game .