I've had this game installed for about 3 months, playing a level here and there. There's not a whole lot to say about this game, really. You play as a wizard that slowly wanders across a level, and you summon different "guardians" to protect you. It's like a mobile tower defense game, with many of the mechanics you would expect from a regular TD. It's fun, but nothing exceptional.

I started this game back in 2012, and now finally decided to actually beat it!

Rock of Ages is a weird one. Imagine Super Monkey Ball, only with RTS elements, set in a world seemingly inspired by the animations made by Terry Gilliams (Monty Python). You roll the ball down a hill, avoiding obstacles, until you hit he enemy gate. Then repeat the process until the enemy gate is down. The enemy is trying to do the exact same thing to you. Between bouts of rolling downhill, you place traps & structures on your opponent's side, trying to slow them down and hopefully even breaking their rock.

It's fun. Really fun actually, and the animated sequences between levels often made me smile due to how silly they were. It's also a rather fun competitive multiplayer game (which is why I first got the game, back in 2012).

The third season of The Walking Dead feels like a mild return to form for Telltale. Unlike many other games released during this time period, it actually feels like this one was given the proper care and attention (you had no weird rotating necks, no things done out of sync with the music, no strange clipping issues and so on). That said, it's still not Telltale's finest. This one takes place a while after the events of Season 2, and you mostly follow a brand new cast of characters, although it's no spoiler that Clementine is in the game (she's even in the banner image!).

I liked this one more than Season 2. This game does not feel the need to move at quick the same break-neck speed, and you get enough time to really get to know the characters. There's less zombie killing, and more talking, and I think that that is a good thing. The characters are also more consistently written here than in S2.

You play as Javier, who's been spending the time after the zombie apocalypse with his brother's wife & kids. They've been on the road for so long, and it's wearing on them. Things do, as they tend to do in stories like this, quickly go south for them, when they come into contact with new people, and they need to figure out what they actually want to do, where they want to go.

To me, this game feels like another side story. The events here do at most feel like they're setting up the events of Season 4, they're not really advancing the plot to any major degree. That said, it's not bad. While I did not care as much about the characters here as I did with Clem & Lee in the first game, they were still human enough, and sympathetic enough that I wanted them to succeed.

While the game feels quite polished, you can tell that they're pushing the engine a bit too far. Everything close to the camera looks nice, but the zombie hordes, and any motion in the background had a tendency of looking weird. There was only once odd instance of a character not moving its mouth. It's not an important character, but he's close to the camera on two occasions, yet he keeps his mouth completely shut the entire time. I guess they never actually made the character model so it could open its mouth, but it looked weird. If he had been a dedicated background character, then fine, but the way he was used ended up taking me out of it.
They also seemingly re-use one location as two different ones. I can't swear they do it, but they looked similar enough that I strongly suspect they did.

Still, if you liked TWD S1, I would recommend this one.