So I grabbed the demo of Frogger from Xbox Live Arcade. I’m not gonna lie… I was very excited for this game. I dumped so much money into Frogger machines growing up it isn’t funny. So when I found out it was coming out for XBLA, I jumped all over it. I fired up the demo and hopped into a game (pun intended). Here’s my thoughts…

First things first… why the hell didn’t they do something better with the sides of the screen?!?! That hippy disco shit has to go. And I can only hear Yankee Doodle so many times before I wanna take a hatchet to my temple.

More importantly, they managed to fuck up the controls on what could be the absolute easiest control scheme ever. It’s a joystiq…. THAT’S IT. For an emulation of a pre 8-bit game, I am befuddled as to why there is a delay in the controls. I’ve been run over by enough cars and fallen in the water enough times now to realize something is pretty wrong here. I hope there’s a patch for this soon (I’ll post a nice rant about console gaming and patching soon when I have more time).

Overall, it’s a fun game. It’s the same old Frogger. Achievements are nicely spread out, with some pretty easy and some semi-hard. They’re definitely all achievable. I’d give this a 6.5/10. If the controls weren’t laggy, I’d give it an 8/10.