On the lines of the original Broken Sword series, the Broken Sword – shadow of the templars starts low key. The storyline starts with a Parisian Café explosion, multiple homicides and a killer clown. Journalist Nico Collard and the tourist from America George Stobbart are taken through a conspiracy that has a global reach involving murder, ancient and forgotten tombs, relics and secret societies.

This fantastic adventure is as good as an epic. The game combines real world mystery with exciting fantasy to provide an interesting experience to players. Exploration in Broken Sword: Shadows of the Templar is based on cursor movement. Lateral thinking with puzzle solving and interaction with various objects makes this game very intriguing. There is no frantic action as with most of the modern games. Action is methodical and orderly. Focus is based on a lot of trial and errors and conversation is quite heavy. These aspects may not be appealing to many. However, this is one of the best games in this genre which comes with a lot of other exciting and interesting features.

The environment is crafted beautifully. The backdrops are exotic and the puzzle games are integrated with the gameplay beautifully. Added value comes in the form of additional and expanded storyline making this game ideal and suited to modern games. With great visuals and graphics, the Director’s cut provides players with an exciting and entertaining experience on their favourite Nintendo DS. This is definitely a game worth trying out as it shines through in spite of the limitations of the Nintendo hand held.

Like its predecessor, Bangai-O spirits is a side-scrolling 2D shooting game designed by the Japanese company, Treasure co. Ltd. (makers of such classics as gunstar heroes and Ikaruga). In the game you are a robot who pilots a well armed mech called Bangai-O throughout a number of stages, where loads of enemies creep in from hidden areas. The robot has the ability to fly but is slightly hindered by the gravitational force.

The robot has seven weapons to fight with and can use a hard-hitting baseball bat or a razor-sharp sword to attack its enemy with some melee action. You can momentarily stop everything on your screen with the game’s ‘freeze ability’ feature. This feature will prove to be of help when you want to reposition your mech and fire your missiles. You’ll get a great deal of powers to combat your enemies, who will assuredly be relentlessly attacking you.

The game has 160 levels to explore, but even more levels can be created with the help of an exceptional level editor. Unlike the usual level editors for DS Lite games, Bangai-O Spirits has gone a step further to create a level editor where you can not only delete or add some level of geometry, but also remove some enemies from the battle. Doesn’t that sound really thrilling?