I put a few video games on my Christmas list amongst the unending pile of canoe camping gear, and my sister picked me up Layton 2.

( Mild spoilers for some puzzles -- no solutions, but commentary that could aid solving )

So, a bit back, lady_angelina lent me Ghost Trick (and Trace Memory, but I haven't gotten to the latter yet), and I finished it this morning.

Review contains spoilers for the first few minutes, game themes, gameplay, and for one plot point which is reasonably early on; it does not contain any for the big endgame spoilers.

( Spoiler cut ahoy! )

aphephobia can probably tell from the subject line what I'm about to rec, but for everyone else, I figured I'd finally put this pimpage out there.

The Administration, by ms_manna. A fully constructed, plausible near-future dystopia, well-written, realistic, respectful treatment of kink, two complicated main characters and deep psychological drama, and serious, ( Read more... )

So wariena plays Inspector Lunge, and he is awesome. So I convinced the library to lend me Monster, a bit at a time, and am slowly working through it when I have time.

And since I am on the train but too bleah to write, I will tl;dr at you instead.

( Spoilers up through volume 10... )

Okay, in entirely too much TL;DR, my thoughts on Ace Attorney Investigations. (I have no Edgeworth icons. I should fix that. Though that's partly because almost all my PW icons are snagged from past and present RP journals, and I cannot write Edgeworth to save my soul.)

( Spoilers. For the whole game, not necessarily in any order. Wait to read this if you haven't finished. )

Am slowly getting caught up on Doctor Who and spinoffs; still at 2/5 on Children of Earth but we watched Waters of Mars tonight.

( spoilers for WoM and casting spoilers/rumors for the rest of the specials )

I have the Final Fantasy chocobo theme stuck in my head. Ow. Brain, what did I ever do to you to deserve this ( Read more... )

The old Doctor Who audios with the Forge are so much sillier when you can't stop thinking about the fact that they use "Twilight" as code for "vampires". Also the Forge are so the proto-Torchwood with extra evil and no Jack Harkness it hurts. But Colin Baker doing a fantastically spot-on Sylvester McCoy impression is worth the price of admission ( Read more... )

1. OH GOD PROUD MODE WHY I NEEDED MY THUMBS. Seriously, ow. I don't think there's anything but bragging rights beating it this way, unlike some of the earlier games, so just spare your fingers, f'list ( Read more... )

We, uh, finally got around to watching the Doctor Who Easter special. Yes, worst obsessive Who fen EVER, especially when we haven't seen the Torchwood mini-series yet either. (Though that we've been putting off because it's supposedly a downer (I know more spoilers than that, D---- doesn't). Which is still lame, but at least it's a reason.

( Spoilers for Planet of the Dead, as well as upcoming casting/management stuff )