Category Archives: videogames

Getting my “cred” back.

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.

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…

…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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Five by Five

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

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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Wii Played

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.

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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This Game Hates You

So I’ve disappeared off the face of the earth for a while, and stopped updating my backlog.  This usually means that I’ve gone back to mainlining heroin. Well, I’d say “back to playing Everquest”, but the heroin thing is more … Continue reading

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Yeah, I played another zombie game

OK, so back in February I swore that I was going to make a serious go at Dead Rising, for real this time, after I cheated a bit and leveled the main character up to level 20 by exploiting a… … Continue reading

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Thoughts on community

It’s 5:30 in the morning, and I’ve been up for an hour already, something I’m going to blame on the cold I’m dealing with.  I took some Albertsons-store-branded Sudafed-a-like when I got up, and hopefully it will let me get … Continue reading

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