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As seen on XBLI.net.

Card Arcade
This week’s XBLI offerings were looking rather bleak – thankfully, Card Arcade saves the day with a clever mix of card and puzzle games. Each of the five modes takes an established game like Solitaire, Poker, or Blackjack, and exchanges the game’s inherent luck factor with some strategic puzzle solving. It won’t win any presentation awards, but the fact is that you’re getting five smartly-designed games when most XBLI developers can’t be bothered to make one. (240pts)

The Oracle
One would assume that a magic 8-ball app lives and dies by the quality of its fortunes. If the various fake predictions aren’t entertaining, then what’s the point? It’s too bad then, that every other fortune in The Oracle’s trial is a request to purchase the game. Maybe the developer saw the writing on the wall, and realized that no matter what the quality of The Oracle, it would still be a magic 8-ball. (80pts)

Spectra Musical Massage
Have we reached saturation on massage games yet? This is getting out of control. Spectra Musical Massage seems like it was originally meant to be a visually-striking media player with an interesting song selection built in. Then the massage game bandwagon came into town and the developers hopped right on. Oh well, one more excuse to put a controller on my crotch I suppose… (240pts)

Mayan Countdown
2012, 2012! It’s the mayan countdown, dodo do doooo, do dodo do do! The end of the world is right around the corner and everyone is getting pumped! You can get pumped too with this pointless countdown clock to a pointless event. I’d imagine getting tricked into purchasing this would feel like the end of the world too.
(80pts)

?????Ultimate Sacrifice
The Japanese developers on XBLI have really struck out so far. Ultimate Sacrifice brings us up to 3-out-of-3 pieces of crap from their side of the world. It’s a garishly ugly and slow 2D shooter. The indie developers from Japan are proving themselves to be just as capitalizing, exploitative, and lazy as their Western counterparts.
(80pts)