flower: The Game

flower is the newest PSN exclusive released on the PS3. As a flower peddle flowing through the air, you grow in size and the game quickly shows its charisma. As the level progresses, the landscape comes to life. It's controls, revolving around the SIXAXIS, defy expectations with their rock-solid responsiveness and it music is a gem adding a therapeutic element to the experience: it's the most mature, most revolutionary title to land on the PS3.

thatgamecompany cusping aside, a more critical stance makes it hard to deny similarities to the classic game, Snake. You know, it's the only fun game that came with your non-qwerty phone back in the 90's. Even still, flowers elegant design, crisp visuals and solid controls make it a worthwhile experience.

SF2 HD REMIX - PS3 FIX

Initially, Street Fight 2 HD Remix seemed flawed with the number of disconnects I was coming across. So, considering I love SF2 I set out to find a solution.

I'm an avid gamer, I know about the NAT issues plaguing Halo 3 so I thought this might be caused by something similar. The solution for that is well documented and as soon as I get home, I'll add a few links that will walk you through this, but for now, know that a solution exists.

It turns out that the PS3 also has a NAT Type that needs to configured. After setting up your wireless connection on the PS3, you're shown a screen with your network name and the encryption type your using. But it also includes your NAT Type number. In my case, I had NAT Type 2, which requires you to forward port 443. After I forwarded that port, I only had a single disconnect in about 20 matches.

Google "PS3 nat type 443" w/o quotes and you'll probably find the walkthrough. My problem could also be that I'm using DD-WRT firmware on my Linksys router which shows TX errors, but that's for another post.