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Really loved playing Valiant Hearts. I love the look of it with it's inky lines and watercolors. It was really fun too. I remember the underground areas making me feel like I was playing an Oddworld game. There are hidden objects in the game to find too with full descriptions that give you some insight into the times and what people went through. I read everything. So interesting. There was also that rhythm game you had to do for the sections with the medic (I forget her name now). That was ok, but I don't enjoy rhythm games stuff usually. Now I'm tempted to go play it again.

Wiki says, "José Arcadio Buendía, founds the town of Macondo, the metaphoric Colombia."

I went to look for one at Walmart last night but didn't see one. . . Oh Toys R Us has them. I'm off.

Convergence between TV/Movies and games has already begun in terms of the content and style of both of them - the influence going in both directions. Reviewers are only going to follow that trend. Plus what game reviewer doesn't want some of the respect movie reviewers get.

Exactly what I was thinking in relation to GTA. Those games never get points off for being sexist, and I'd say their ads at least are very sexist (all those lolypop sucking bikini girls on buses and buildings), of course it's all a joke, but it's less obviously so with GTA than Bayonetta. Play Bayonetta for five minutes and you know it's a joke right away.

The only issue should be, does the over-sexualization fit in well with the overall presentation of the game, or is it totally out of place and unnecessary. Mr. Gies seems to think it's unnecessary, but I say that it is an essential part of this game. It's an essential part of Bayonetta's snarky attitude. She teases the player constantly and loves the power that gives her. Bayonetta without the sexiness wouldn't be Bayonetta. I even get the feeling that if the character were real, and head of the dev team, she would demand the cameras whip through her legs so she could laugh at the effect it has on the mostly male gamers.

Essentially though, this comes down to culture, because everything Bayonetta is is very, very Japanese and the West has "issues" with sexuality in games. If this was made in the West, the sex would be toned down and the violence and gore toned up. Is that better?

I really want to go back to it sometime. I wanted to for Halloween too, but I was too into Borderlands. I'll get to it though.

Ha ha. I caught that joke too.

I saw that and just got the soundtrack out of the library. I'm going to listen to it soon.

Yea, I seem to remember a place name, but it wasn't Colombia. . . Oh yeah, Macondo was the fictional name.