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Tomorrow: a more word-oriented entry

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We were just trying to stay alive, I suppose. We were doing okay for a while. And then we were attacked. They came in through the kitchen window. They were really fast, you know? Chased us. Chased your mum. And we were trapped. Trapped in the bedroom. I seen them, biting. I couldn’t do anything. I tried to go back. She was already gone. She was already gone.

I wrote — well, appropriated might be a more accurate term — the above fan fiction. That passage is from the perspective of one of the creatures in Kirby Mass Attack. A turnip or a fish or a flower or something. In that scene, the creature is explaining to his kids why their mother isn’t around anymore.

After the jump, when Kirbys attack en masse Continue reading →

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Before I hand you over to Jason “Fenix” McMaster for Quarter to Three’s enthusiastic Gears of War 3 game diary, I leave you with this review:

You’ve played this game a couple of times already, and here you are shelling out another sixty bucks to play it all over again, with only minor improvements, and with the same shortcomings it’s had all along. The word that keeps springing to mind as I play is “competent”. When it’s all over, the reaction is a shrug. When it’s sitting on my shelf, I might as well reach for Gears of War 2. Or a shooter with some creative energy like Hard Reset, or Lost Planet 2, or Fear 3.

Thumbs down.

(Update: there was some confusion about the rating which has been resolved; the current C+ is the intended score)

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“I should play what?”

I hear you. At a press event a few months back, this game was idling on a monitor in the corner. I probably wouldn’t have given it a second glance if I hadn’t been waiting for a demo of the remastered House of the Dead: Overkill for the Playstation 3. But as soon as the guy demoing it told me the name of the developer, my ears perked up. And by the time the demo was over, this was probably the upcoming Sega game I was most looking forward to.

I only wish Sega shared my enthusiasm. I didn’t even realize they’d released the game last week.

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