This Wednesday: Some Lucidity for South Park on XBLA

by Richard Mitchell { Oct 5th 2009 at 3:58PM }

Major Nelson has announced that the two games gracing Xbox Live Arcade this week will be Lucidity and South Park LET'S GO TOWER DEFENSE PLAY. The first is a puzzle platformer from LucasArts with a positively delightful art style, while the second ... well it's pretty self explanatory. It's a tower defense game set against the backdrop of the famous, quiet little mountain town. Both can be yours in exchange for 800

($10).

Tags: lucidity, south-park, south-park-lets-go-tower-defense-play, this-wednesday, xbla, xblawednesday

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

nightmare452 @ Oct 5th 2009 4:01PM

Lucidity sounds very interesting. Will give it a try.

Platinum_Skeet @ Oct 5th 2009 4:31PM

I haven't played a tower defense game before on console but I've played a ton of flash-based versions on the net. I'll probably give the South Park one a try it seems like a cool time waster before Uncharted 2 and Borderlands comes out...

Shmil @ Oct 5th 2009 4:05PM

I hope you are raped to death by a car full of clowns.

Nate Addison @ Oct 5th 2009 4:52PM

I detect a movie quote...

Shmil @ Oct 5th 2009 4:56PM

Your detection was a failure. Unless I'm inadvertently quoting something I don't realize that was a Shmil original.

Dirty @ Oct 5th 2009 5:29PM

I'm surprised you've never seen "Clown Rapists 7 - The return of Giggles the hobo clown". The tag line was "Be careful what you wish for!".

Shmil @ Oct 5th 2009 5:47PM

Well now it's in my netflix queue. Happy?

AsherR [Planeteer | Power of The Hoff] @ Oct 5th 2009 4:06PM

I hope SPLGTDP will be fun. I rolled my eyes when I first heard about it, but after seeing it in action, it seems like it could be a lot of fun.

Geist @ Oct 5th 2009 4:11PM

I played it at a press event, and it's a fairly competent Tower Defense game. I like having your cash stay with you between areas (a level is composed of about 4 areas or so), and the ability to use characters as mobile towers that can charge special moves is pretty cool, too.

AsherR [Planeteer | Power of The Hoff] @ Oct 5th 2009 4:16PM

Ah okay. That sounds interesting. I don't know a ton about it. Only that's is a 4 player TD game where you use the characters. I'm planning to try the demo before I buy it though.

Has anyone bought that Zombie Apocalypse game? I played the demo solo and it seemed like it would get repetitive even with 4 people.

AsherR [Planeteer | Power of The Hoff] @ Oct 5th 2009 4:08PM

Now that would be the most dangerous traffic light in the world Shmil!

Then would do the whole CSI: Miami shtick.

"He was just Funny Boned."

CaramelZappa @ Oct 5th 2009 4:08PM

Lucidity is for PC as well, PC tag please.

Spartan_458 @ Oct 5th 2009 5:18PM

Yes, it is, but what you fail to realize is that this is an XBLA announcement by Major Nelson, who is the Xbox guy. So really, this has nothing to do with the PC. Hence no PC tag.

CaramelZappa @ Oct 5th 2009 5:25PM

Yea, I saw that it's an xbox announcement. But that doesn't mean Joystiq can't mention that the game is coming to steam at the same time.

AsherR [Planeteer | Power of The Hoff] @ Oct 5th 2009 4:09PM

*we could do

Typos are the bane of my existence.

Geist @ Oct 5th 2009 4:09PM

Eh, MS gave me a cool $15 the other day. Sure, I'll get Lucidity.

MystileArmor @ Oct 5th 2009 4:11PM

And I just farted to get rid of a frequent ass itch. I win.

Geist @ Oct 5th 2009 4:12PM

That's the best flatulence.

MystileArmor @ Oct 5th 2009 4:10PM

I'm a bit skeptic about the SP game, since they don't really have that fantastic of a trackrecord, but it looks quite decent. Don't know about the 10 dollar pricetag, though.
Lucidity looks like it could be fantastic, we'll just have to see.

MowDownJoe @ Oct 5th 2009 5:52PM

South Park games have bad track records? I liked the South Park FPS. I thought it was pretty clever. Yeah, the graphics weren't great, but South Park ain't the best-looking show on TV.

MystileArmor @ Oct 5th 2009 7:22PM

The gameplay was just a bit stale. Gobble gobble *pop*. Gobble gobble *pop*

Snowblind @ Oct 5th 2009 4:29PM

I'm not normally a fan of tower defence, but the South Park game looks pretty cool. I'm not 100% sold on Lucidity, but I like the style and will at least try the trial version.

Colonel Craphead @ Oct 5th 2009 4:44PM

Pick South Park! You can kill hippies and ginger-kids!

...Do you need any other motivation? :D

johnnynumber5 @ Oct 5th 2009 5:38PM

I wonder if either of these will be coming to the PSN. I would love to play both of them so hopefully 1. they are good, 2. they sell well and 3. come over to the PSN eventually.

CaramelZappa @ Oct 5th 2009 6:12PM

Lucidity you could just play on the PC. It's not like you need a hardcore gaming rig to play a 2d platformer. You could even get your PS3 controller connected and have basically the same experience.

johnnynumber5 @ Oct 6th 2009 12:05AM

Problem is I don't even have a PC. We have a couple of mac computers so games are basically non existent. But, I have been looking at plants vs zombies which has a mac version.

CaramelZappa @ Oct 7th 2009 1:42AM

There's always boot camp, or, if you're that much against spending money on a microsoft product, linux and wine.

Dick Ward @ Oct 5th 2009 5:58PM

I'm going to mute the volume on Lucidity to pay tribute to Queensryche.

Heavytoka @ Oct 5th 2009 6:23PM

I'll be picking up Lucidity, game looks great!

Metoo @ Oct 6th 2009 10:05AM

Lucidity reminds me of a game I played on the Mac or PC (or DS?) where you drew platforms for a guy who kept walking. Can't remember the name for the life of me. You had to lead him to keys for doors too.