Sonic Unleashed promised to whisk me back to the magical speed of Mega Drive days. While it resurrected this childhood joy, its Were-Hog levels left me with a bitter taste.
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Monthly Archives: May 2010
I Am Twin Peaks
Alan Wake has finally been delivered to Xbox 360 owners after so many years of waiting and hoping, and like all healthy newborns, it’s come out screaming and bloody. It shrieks, “I am Twin Peaks! I am The X-Files! I am Stephen King! Love me, for I am more than just a game!” While it is a decent one, Alan Wake is very much a game, just like so very many other games. But it could have been special.
Alan Wake
Stop pinching yourself. There’s no need to blink and rub your eyes. Alan Wake really is here. Remedy’s much-anticipated psychological thriller, once the source of debate over its very existence, has finally arrived in stores after what feels like a lifetime. As I placed it in my Xbox 360, I almost expected the disc to vanish into thin air, to leave a puff of smoke in its place.
Good For Good Reasons
Were he somehow alive today, I doubt Immanuel Kant would’ve given a jot about No Russian. Despite the controversial Modern Warfare 2 level grabbing all the headlines, the 18th Century philosopher’s concepts of the categorical imperative, morality and duty don’t really accommodate for killing – undercover agent or not. He would have deemed partaking in a brutal terrorist massacre as always morally invalid.
Mini Ninjas
Mini Ninjas’ regressive style was refreshing for a waylaid gamer like me. Life hearts, checkpoints, and level-based design hark to a simpler time when plumbers and night-capped elves were in fashion rather than steroid-pumping, gun-toting square-jaws.
Wild Hadoukens
Hadoukens in the wilderness. Sonic Booms lost to time. I was not the only gamer returning to a faint memory when I picked up Super Street Fighter IV.
Final Fantasy XIII
Final Fantasy XIII has changed while I’ve been away. Playing Final Fantasy in the 90s I was in love, but coming back I find a different experience in its place. It’s grown up, but not quite how I expected, or wanted it to.