Saturday, March 17, 2012

Pschonaughts [game]

THIS IS THE BEST WRITTEN GAME I'VE EVER PLAYED, HOLY MOLY. I LIKE THIS GAME BECAUSE BEYOND JUST BEING VOICED BY ZIM IT'S VERY VASQUEZ, WITH SQUIRRELS AND MEAT BEING FUNNY AND MAYBE EVEN A SIMILAR ART STYLE. I LIKE THAT IT WAS LIKE SILENT HILL IN THAT ALL THE SETTINGS AND ENEMIES MADE SENSE AS PROJECTIONS OF PEOPLE'S MENTAL ISSUES, EVEN IF IT WAS MUCH MORE LIGHT HEARTED ABOUT IT, (EXCEPT WHEN IT WASN'T: GLORIA'S MOTHER)

PS. THE GRAPHICS ARE SO STYLEIZED THAT PLAYING THIS AT MODERN RESOLUTIONS MADE IT LOOK LIKE A MODERN GAME AND IT MADE CUTSCENES FUNNY, SINCE NOT ONLY WERE THEY COMPRESSED DOWN TO 800X600 THEY CLEARLY WEREN'T EVEN ORIGINALLY RENDERED AT AS HIGH A RESOLUTION AS i WAS PLAYING AT, SO THE GRAPHICS ACTUALLY WERE GETTING WORSE TO GO INTO PRERENDERED CUT SCENES.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Drunk On Blood [book]

THIS WASN'T REALLY A VERY WELL WRITTEN BOOK, THE COMMENTARY WAS FUNNY BUT I COULD PICK HOLES IN IT PRETTY EASY. BUT I STILL LIKE BOOKS LIKE THIS, IT COUNTED OUT EVERY DEATH IN THE BIBLE AND OFFERED A LITTLE COMMENTARY ON IT. AND I JUST LOVE ALL THOSE WEIRD BIBLE STORIES THAT EVERYONE SORT OF AGREES JUST TO NEVER MENTION, THOSE ARE THE BEST BIBLE STORIES AND THIS WAS A GOOD RECAP OF SOME I'D KNOWN AND A FEW I HAD NOT, OR FORGOT ABOUT.

PS. THE STORY WITH MOSES AND THE QUAILS IS THE BEST BIBLE STORY, BECAUSE THE PART WHERE THEY ATE QUAILS TILL IT 'CAME OUT THEIR NOSE' SEEMS LIKE ENOUGH OF A POINT THEN HE JUST KILLS THEM TOO BECAUSE, WHY NOT. ALSO SAMSON ROPING A BUNCH OF FOXES TOGETHER AND THAT WHOLE SAMPSON RIDDLE THING IS STILL GREAT, BECAUSE I CAN'T EVEN PRETEND TO TELL WHAT THE POINT OF THAT STORY WAS.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Skyward Sword [game]

I HAVE BEEN PLAYING THIS GAME ON AND OFF SINCE NOVEMBER AND I CAN'T SAY I HATE THIS GAME OR ANYTHING, BUT IT DOES FEEL LIKE THE FIRST ZELDA GAME I NEVER WANT TO REPLAY. EVERYTHING FELT SO LABORIOUS, THE PART WHERE THEY SPLIT A SONG INTO 4 PARTS THEN THAT DRAGON LADY SPLITS HER PART INTO 60 PIECES FOR NO REASON AT ALL IS PRETTY MUCH MY OPINION OF THE GAME. ALSO WHY DID YOU HAVE TO START WITH 5 HEARTS? YOU SHOULD HAVE STARTED WITH 3 THEN JUST GOT TWO MORE DURING THE TUTORIAL.

PS. THINGS I DID LIKE: CUTTING BAMBOO, WHIPPING HEART FLOWERS, LINK'S MAGICAL TIME TUGBOAT, THE SWORD STUFF YOU COULD BUT DIDN'T HAVE TO DO DURING THE LAST BOSS FIGHT THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN HOW THE WHOLE GAME PLAYED.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Dungeons of Dredmor [game]

SEE! IT'S THIS KIND OF GAME THAT IS TERRIBLE FOR ME, HORRIBLE OLD SCHOOL MECHANICALLY DENSE GRINDFESTS. I TOTALLY SUNK 29 HOURS INTO THIS IN LIKE A WEEK, WHILE I'VE BEEN PLAYING SKYWARD SWORD FOR LIKE FIVE MONTHS AND ONLY 28 HOURS IN. GAMES LIKE THIS, I GUESS I JUST CAN GRIND AWAY AT WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT IT ABSENTMINDEDLY.

PS. ONE WOULD THINK THAT AT SOME POINT I'D DEVELOP SOME SORT OF SKILL AT ROUGELIKES, SINCE I KEEP MAKING ATTEMPTS TO PLAY VARIOUS ONES AND GET SUCKED IN FOR 100 HOUR RIDES BUT NOPE, STILL TERRIBLE AT THEM, STILL BEAT THIS BY TURNING OFF PERMADEATH AND SAVE SCUMMING AND JUST THROWING MYSELF AT EVERYTHING DOZENS OF TIMES TILL I PROGRESSED BY LUCK.

Saturday, March 3, 2012

Mechanique- A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti [book]

I DON'T KNOW IF I LIKE OR HATE WHEN STORIES DECIDE NOT TO EXPLAIN THINGS. LIKE I KINDA WISH I KNEW MORE ABOUT THE POWERS AND MORE ABOUT THE LIMITS OF THE GIFT AND ALL THAT BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT'S COOL WHEN BOOKS JUST KINDA TELL YOU HOW SOMETHING IS AND ROLL WITH IT. ALSO I SERIOUSLY LIKE THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF "YOU CAN'T DIE SO WE CAN MESS WITH YOUR BODY' CONCEPT AND CAN'T REALLY THINK OF ANYTHING ELSE THAT USED THAT IDEA EXCEPT THE WIZARD OF OZ.

PS. THE SHORT STORIES THAT WIN NEBULA AWARDS FOLLOW THE FORMAT THAT I HAVE TALKED SO MUCH ABOUT, BUT THE NOVELS ARE ACTUALLY GOOD NOVELS AND THIS IS A BOOK THAT WON A NEBULA AWARD AND IS A GOOD NOVEL AND I FEEL SAD AND ANGRY THAT THE ONLY PERSON I KNOW WHO READ ALL THE NEBULA AWARDS IS GONE NOW AND THERE IS NO ONE TO TALK ABOUT THIS BOOK WITH.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Borrower Arrietty [movie]

THE BEST PART OF THIS MOVIE WAS THAT THE TEA WAS ALL THICK BECAUSE IT WAS LITTLE.

PS. THE BEST PART OF THIS MOVIE WAS THAT STUIDO GHIBI DRAWS EVERYTHING SUPER REALISTIC BUT STILL CLEARLY HAS NOT SEEN EXACTLY WHAT A CAT LOOKS LIKE AND HAS BEEN FAKING IT FOR DECADES IN NEARLY EVERY MOVIE WITH THEIR WEIRD LOOKING CATS.

Saturday, February 18, 2012

Judy Moody and the not bummer summer [movie]

WAS THIS TERRIBLE MOVIE BASED ON SOMETHING? WAS STINK WRITTEN TO BE A TODDLER BECAUSE STINK WAS THE SAME AGE AS EVERYONE ELSE AND IT MADE HIM SEEN MENTALLY RETARDED. ALSO FRANK LEGITIMATELY WAS RUINING EVERYTHING AND THE MORAL TO BE NICE TO HIM SEEMED WEIRD, SHE WAS ALREADY BRINGING HIM ALL THESE PLACES.

PS. I WATCHED THIS ON A BUS, DON'T WORRY