Cloning Clyde
This weekend I've been playing Cloning Clyde, the new Xbox Live Arcade game by NinjaBee.
Cloning Clyde is a 2D (although it's all 3D rendered) platformer, where you play as Clyde, a hapless guy who was given $20 to take part in a cloning experiment. Needless to say, things have gone horribly wrong, and now you're trying to escape from the cloning facility and help all the other Clydes escape in the process.
The game reminds me a lot of The Lost Vikings, another 2D-platformer-puzzler from many years ago. It's bloody funny, too - a lot of images that look like they're inspired by The Far Side or Calvin and Hobbes; and slapstick humour forms part of the game.
For the sake of $16.50 to purchase 1000 MS Points, 800 of which went towards this game (which, by my calc.exe's calculations, means that the game costs $13.20), it's hard to go past. Should keep me entertained for ages, and Sal reckons it's even the sort of game she'd play.
If more games of this calibre are released for Xbox Live Arcade (see also: Roboblitz), then there's every chance that I won't need to pay up to $120 for a new game for quite some time.