Christmas

Again in the holiday season, I will be doing a Christmas themed post!

I'll start with the new update to Cookie Clicker, here.  There are new upgrades, a new reindeer cookie system, and many new puns. Several upgrades here have one or more bad puns, and I love it. Every upgrades cost is a multiple of 25, unless you reduce it through another upgrade. 25, of course, referencing the 25th of December, Christmas. Every couple of minutes a reindeer will run across the screen. Clicking on this reindeer will give you a minutes worth of cookies, or more with certain upgrades. There are also some graphical changes, with some of the grandmothers dressed as elves, and the cookies falling in the background accompanied by snowflakes.

There is also the Elf Bowling series, several online games which you can have a trial of, before having to purchase the full version. I recommend   "7 and  1/7 - The Last Insult". The predecessors aren't  nearly as nice. In "The Last Insult" Santa's elves go on strike, and you have to bowl them over to get them back to work. In story mode, you compete against the computer, with it trying to beat you. They can use several tricks to make it harder, and you can use ones to make it easier. You can also sabotage them, and they can use bonuses in rebuttal. There is also a single player, where the elves you are bowling at use these dirty tricks. You, of course, can still use upgrades. The trial version of this game can be downloaded here.

Another Christmas game I have played for a long time is Deep Freeze. It's a small arcade type game where you play as Santa Claus, and destroy monsters running around on an ice platform thing. There isn't really a plot, but gameplay is fun, and the freezing of enemies makes for a unique challenge. However, the bosses are very difficult, and can kill you very easily if you do not pay attention.

I also tried Frost Bite. This is another platformer that seems to have been made by the same people who made Deep Freeze. The names are even similar. The gameplay in this one, again, is rather interesting. You have to climb to the top of a mountain to raise a flag. You have a grappling gun, one that shoots very short distances, to assist you in this. One thing that annoyed me was the constant presence of point-giving pickups. They were all over, and It makes it a lot less satisfying to get them.