Monthly Archives: December 2009

The Ten Thousand Deaths of Lara Croft

Posted on December 26, 2009 by baudattitude

It hasn’t been that long, really, since I decided that I should really start trying to play through some of the games that I’d piled up over the years of playing nothing but Everquest. I say “decided”, but the reality … Continue reading →

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Getting my “cred” back.

Posted on December 22, 2009 by baudattitude

I didn’t like Braid. This worried me a bit.  I mean, it was probably the most lauded independently-developed game of the last couple years, and I could not make myself interested in it. Was I, I wondered, hopelessly lost to … Continue reading →

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I want you to tell all your friends about me.

Posted on December 21, 2009 by baudattitude

It’s my opinion that the absolute best time to have been an animation fan in America was the early 1990s.  Not only was anime starting to really take off, but Western animators were at the top of their game.  We … Continue reading →

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Apart from crippling hand pains…

Posted on December 17, 2009 by baudattitude

…busting DID make me feel good. I’ll explain. A couple of months ago, I bought the PC version of “Ghostbuster” from Direct2Drive’s Halloween sale.  I’d heard it was a pretty short game, but it was $10 and the writeups I’d … Continue reading →

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Frilly, fluffy, bouncy pain

Posted on December 17, 2009 by baudattitude

One of the better anime programs I caught up with in the last year was Mahoromatic.  Sure, it was 20-odd episodes of fan service and goofy plots followed by an bizarre ending, but it had likable characters and, for lack … Continue reading →

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Five by Five

Posted on December 16, 2009 by baudattitude

There was a weird little period – basically, the first four months of 2008 – where whoever’s responsible for selecting which titles get put up on Xbox Live Arcade actually got some taste. Between January and April of that year, … Continue reading →

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Eternal Trusty Sonata Bell

Posted on December 16, 2009 by baudattitude

I finished Eternal Sonata tonight, and my final impressions were positive.  I can’t get over the effort that got put into making this game look pretty at every turn – there were times I’d run my characters through an area … Continue reading →

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Did a little too much MST in the 90s

Posted on December 14, 2009 by baudattitude

So I opened a chest (in Eternal Sonata) and the treasure inside was a “Shard of Sampo” I think the question on everyone’s mind at this point is, “What the hell is a Sampo?”

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Wii Played

Posted on December 13, 2009 by baudattitude

It’s more than a little embarrassing that I bought a Wii back in April of 2007, when they were really quite hard to find, and then didn’t really play any Wii games until earlier this year.  I mucked around a … Continue reading →

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Two reasons to play Muramasa.

Posted on December 7, 2009 by baudattitude

One final exam down this morning, another final paper handed in, all I have left to do is sit my Japanese final on Wednesday and I can look forward to a nice winter break. Mind you, in an effort to … Continue reading →

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