I conquered the mountain in Celeste! It took me twelve and a half hours and I died 3,557 times.

The Celestial Resort was particularly good at killing me: seven hundred and thirty deaths. Given that I died there, you could say it was my last resort. You could say it seven hundred and thirty times.

I wasn't expecting to enjoy this game nearly as much ( Read more... )

I've fallen back into my terrible addiction to watching What Would You Do? clips on YouTube, alas. For those unaware of it, What Would You Do? is an American hidden camera show in which actors play out scenarios (e.g. 'Some arsehole's hitting on a woman who clearly wants him to leave her alone! What would you do?') and see whether bystanders step ( Read more... )

TERRIBLE FIC IDEA: The Last of Us/Pokémon crossover, in which the Paras line are the cause of the outbreak. Runners have little Paras mushrooms on top of their heads; Clickers have the large Parasect mushroom. Possibly there is some sort of glowy Runner-to-Clicker evolution sequence, rather than a gradual transformation. Ellie has a Rattata. NOBODY ( Read more... )

If you've played The Last of Us and you haven't yet watched this video of the motion capture for an alternative ending, you absolutely must. I found it very moving.

It's very strange to go back to the Uncharted games after playing The Last of Us. The games share many elements, but they're utterly different in tone. In The Last of Us, killing ( Read more... )

Balamb Garden, MD level. Squall, Zell and Rinoa come across an unstable-looking ladder. If you choose the 'Someone else go check it out' option:

Squall: (I'll have someone else check it out.)
Squall: (Zell and Rinoa...)
Squall: (Zell...)
Squall: (Rinoa...)
Squall: I'll go take a look. You two wait here ( Read more... )

Full Moon wo Sagashite really seems to be improving in its later episodes, which is a pleasant surprise. Fullmetal Alchemist and Death Note taught me to expect longish anime series to start out strongly and then dissolve into an unmemorable mess. Full Moon, meanwhile, started out with a 10:1 filler-to-plot ratio and then became rather excellent in ( Read more... )

Uncharted is a very short game! It only took me about ten hours of gameplay to complete, and I'm sure you can shave two or three hours off that time if you're better at aiming than I am, which is no large feat ( Read more... )

Unexpected but pleasant side-effect of playing Red Dead Redemption: I am now actually capable of playing through the shooty bits in the more difficult Uncharted! Both I and Nathan Drake thank you for teaching me how to aim, John Marston. (Although Red Dead Redemption couldn't prepare me for the Press Circle to Not Die bits, so I picked up Uncharted ( Read more... )

Regarding the most recent Glee episode, 'Pot o' Gold':

( Spoilers for 'Pot o' Gold'. )

I like Fang a lot more now that I'm actually playing Final Fantasy XIII than I did when I was merely watching it; not that I ever disliked her, but she makes sense to me now in a way that she didn't before. This is largely because of the things she says when you have her in your party (I seem to have adopted Lightning, Fang and Sazh as my primary ( Read more... )