Silt

I certainly am enjoying playing these brand new games and having no idea what to expect.  Silt is a game that came out only a few days ago and had an interesting artsy style that intrigued me in the same way Limbo did.

You are a side scrolling diver/explorer with the ability to use your brain to control most other animals.  For example, you might need to possess a piranha type fish to bite through some vines.  You progress through a series of obstacles using the resources provided in order to fight four different leviathans.

I say "fight" but really they are just another puzzle that has to do with a big scary monster. 

It was fun for a while, the soundtrack is okay and it delivers on all of it's promises, but with no real reason to play again and I felt like I was done with the experience about halfway through.  I have no idea what I was doing or why doing it made a ton of divers surface, but then some kind of object opened and maybe .. shot lasers or something?   If you know you know.

NFS Heat

NFS Heat is the most recent Need For Speed game, and has you joining a race crew attempting to get recognized.  Racing in the day earn you money without the fear of police chase, racing at night earns you reputation and increases the available upgrade parts you can purchase.

I haven't played a racing game, let alone one to completion, in a long while it seems.  I had forgotten the joy and adrenaline rush of a perfect maneuver, or drifting around a long corner narrowly avoiding cars.  Need For Speed has always had that enjoyable "running from the police" excitement, but I found myself missing the obstacles that would impede the cops (running under the scaffolding of a billboard to make it fall, jumping over some obstacle, etc.) -- it seemed these kept pretty tight to me unless I destroyed them in some way or went in a non-conventional area where they couldn't keep up, like down railroad train tracks or taking the quick way down a twisty road.

I do think I'm done with racing games for another long while though unless there is something special to it.