Note: This was actually written a week ago, but I forget to post it until now. I still haven't gotten around to Facade, though I've seen a few LPs--my only shift in opinion is that is does seem to demonstrate how scripted and formalized casual conversation can be, but only through how easy it is to break the flow with trolly comments.Before the ( Read more... )

When I left Cambridge the city was practically begging me to stay. I got nice warm weather, a wonderful sendoff in the form of a fair with fireworks shot off right as we got to the top of the Big Wheel, and then I missed my plane because the bus got stuck in traffic ( Read more... )

To the writers of Devil May Cry 2What the fuck was that? Who is Lucia and why is Dante hanging out with her? Why do we care about her big surprising twist? Where's Trish gone? Who is this Arius guy and why does he sound like a Saturday Morning Cartoon version of Hitler? What happened to Mundus? Is he sockpuppeting as Argosax? Where did this ( Read more... )

Snagged this link off a comment on shortpacked and I have to admit, it's bothering me a little bit. Here's the disclaimer.

Imagine if you will. Girls that get just as upset as you do when that boss battle just isn't going well and you you've been hacking away at the bastard for hours! A Girl that can counter your obscure science fiction movie reference with ( Read more... )

Since I seem to put a Let's Play in every link post, here's The Dark Eye. It's essentially interactive Edgar Allan Poe and it's a complete mindfuck, especially at the beginning. If you feel like freaking yourself out, I recommend it.

For something a bit less disturbing and a bit more ranting about various forms of media, there's Atop the Fourth ( Read more... )

As far as I can tell, Puzzle Quest came into existence when someone sat down and went "Fantasy RPGs are popular to the point that people have died playing them. Simple match three puzzle games are popular to the point that people waste hours with 'just one more game'. What happens if we combine the two ( Read more... )

Movies this time:

From "The Spoony Experiment" comes the Let's Play of Phantasmagoria: A Puzzle of Flesh. The game itself is nonsensical and banal (no joke: you spend the first hour getting ready to go out and then ambling around your workspace talking to your coworkers and trying to finish your files), although I will give it kudos for a vaguely ( Read more... )

It's link dump time once more, because I should be working.

First off, several Let's Play threads of interest.

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (video format with commentary). It starts out as a sort of steampunk/technopunk Western setting with bounty hunting and flips to something entirely different about two thirds of the way through. Very nice.

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So I got to the ending credits of Hotel Dusk:215 about five minutes ago, after no less than sixteen hours of solving amusing puzzles, having things make no sense (such as having a pencil sitting in your suitcase for half the game but never being able to actually pick it up and put it in your inventory until there came an obscure need for it) and ( Read more... )

So I'm playing Theo's copy of Final Fantasy: Crisis Core (also known as FF7's prequel or Zack's Big Adventure). It's not bad, exactly, it's just that the long unskippable cutscenes that pop up whenever you take three steps are really damn annoying. If I wanted to watch five minutes of SOLDIERS fighting each other I'd go back and watch Advent ( Read more... )