Android: Where's My Video Games? Pt. 1: Tap Dragon Park Special

It's time for biased and absolutely correct thoughts on Tap Dragon Park!~

My proposal for Tap Dragon Park's new promo pic

You might ask why I am playing Tap Dragon Park. I don't and won't like Tap Dragon Park. I wouldn't have reccomended it and I will never reccomend it to anyone I wouldn't reccomend Boku No Pico to. As in, I mean the game is a mild psychological hazard to most of the population. So why am I playing it? I'm playing it because I realize I shouldn't be talking about social games without firsthand knowledge about what they are.

Android: Where's My Video Games? Pt. 0: Cleaning House

Being a gamer, I often end up discussing mobile games, and any discussion of mobile gaming I have tends to include some declaration that iOS has better games than Android. Since I just can't get behind what Apple does, I bought a Galaxy Nexus to keep me company. But, for a hardcore gamer, what does mobile gaming on Android hold? When I initially bought the device, I was surprised by the sheer lack of quality topping the games charts, so it took me a little digging to find tolerable stuff. Android gaming isn't just Skinner-box games like Farmville, or the (much) less evil casual playthings put out by the guys at A Thinking Ape, even though that's what most of the stuff tends to be. Take the recent ports of traditional games like Max Payne and Spacechem, for instance.

But even though games like that exist, the hardcore have been turning their noses up at the platform. Just Google anything related to "Top Android games" and you'll mostly find another article that cites Angry Birds as the must-have game and goes on about free casual games it would be faster just to download off the top 10. If I bring up Gamespot, the Android gaming section is filled mostly with user ratings (hardly any text reviews). If I bring up IGN, you get some coverage, but there's apparently no Android section as of yet, and everything's being given 8s as usual. Metacritic's Android coverage is nonexistent-- probably because there just aren't enough critics talking about the platform's games.

Android isn't even on the radar over at Metacritic

So, what do you do when other people can't give you any help deciding on your video games? You decide yourself, of course.