I'm surprised at the 4 stars. Your review sounded like you would give it a perfect score. Not complaining, just saying. What holds it back from that highest score do you think?
I agree that Sonic did what Mario didn't. The speed and aggressive attitude of Sonic were elements lacking in Mario. Sega did a great job making their platformer stand out from the competition.
If I wasn't already booked up with games I'm playing, I'd like to finish Silent Hill: Book of Memories and then play Luigi's Mansion again (both GC and 3DS ones) and then tackle Eternal Darkness, which I have in my collection, and RE4 for Gamecube, which I've been meaning to play for years. Fatal Frame sounds cool too.
I've never really been scared by games although I used to get scared by the dragon in Atari 2600 Adventure. The way it would appear out of nowhere and come at you really fast just freaked me out. It looked like a duck but it had a square-shaped hole in it's stomach just the right size to fit the square-shaped you. . . I'm scaring myself just talking about it right now. Yikes!
Last time I played board games in meatspace was way back. My roommate and I used to play Squad Leader and Car Wars and D&D and then Chess at the coffee shop. Since then I've only played the flatlands translations of board games especially the German ones on XBLA like Catan, Carcassonne, and Ticket to Ride. I bought the actual Carcassonne game, but I have no one to play it with, so it sits on my shelf. I've often thought of joining a group at my local strategy board game store. I love board games. There's so many I'd love to try out there right now.
I probably shouldn't rag on a particular age group. Immaturity can happen at any age. What I really mean is, if someone gets mad because a writer doesn't share their opinion, that's immature. Have a debate. Name-calling is pointless.
This "survival horror" designation is really nothing special. i mean it's just horror in a video game. I'm sure horror has been in games from the beginning, just maybe not as sucessfully scary and interactive as Resident Evil because it's one of the first in a fully 3D environment.
It's just pure immaturity. Can we get a demographic of who are commenting on these reviews? My guess is it skews very young, like teen or below.
A new Goodwill store is opening up in my area. I excited to go bargain hunting again sometime soon.
Goin' bug huntin' in EDF 2025 this weekend. Most of the secret achievements are for killing certain numbers of different bug and robot types. My friend Mark and I are taking aim at those. Also I'm trying to finish my next Nostalgic Vacation game. It's a 1994 rpg so it might take a while.
I have, of late, a strange fascination with Marshmallows, and when I saw the character Mallow mentioned in your review, I had to do some research. Turns out Mallow was born of King and Queen Nimbus and is cloud-like with special powers related to the weather. I can't figure out why his name is Mallow though. That usually refers to a family of plants, but it could be just something related to his puffy look. Cotton is of the mallows family. Also the name marshmallow is from "marsh mallow", the plant from which the sweet was originally made from.
Also Mallow's story is so adorable. He was lost from Nimbus Land and found by the sage Frogfucious who raised him as one of his own. Subseqently Mallow thought he was a tadpole in early life but was really bad at tadpole things like swimming and jumping. Later though he was on an erand for Frogfucious to buy a Cricket Pie in the Mushroom Kingdom and had his money stolen by Croco. He tried to chase him but wasn't fast enough and started to cry. Then it began to rain and he realized his power over the weather. Isn't that just cuter than cute?
I'm gonna keep my eye out for this PSP game. Thanks.
Hey Justin! Cover Teirdalin Shadowfall's "Epic Holiday Overhauls" this year. That would be awesome!
