Assault Horizon is an accident. A collection of impossibly bad ideas in an attempt to modernize the Ace Combat franchise and make it more palatable to what appears to be the Japanese perception of a western gamer. As a result, you have a game that will please practically nobody. Veteran Ace Combat players will encounter [...]
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Thoughts on the Korg Monotribe
To stave off the inevitable depression following last week, I decided to buy myself some momentary respite. I wanted a new music toy, something to kick back in bed with and tweak out some sounds before sleep, and the Korg Monotribe “analogue ribbon station” (what.) looked to fit the bill. It’s got a relatively low [...]
Thoughts on Vanquish
Preface Shooting games. Next to the RPG, this genre most clearly proves the split in design mentality between the east and the west. Both in the east and the west, shoot’em ups (or shmups) began proper with Space Invaders. To contrast, in the west, we fell in love with the art and pacing of games [...]
Thoughts on Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West, is a western novel by Cormac McCarthy that I’d previously heard much about (often in the form of sensationalizing the violence of the novel). Personally I have never had a real interest in westerns, going so far as to actively avoid the subject matter; For this [...]
Thoughts on Inception
I went to see Inception tonight, and given the amount of hype surrounding that film and my own fairly divergent experience, I feel compelled to write about it. I won’t waste your time describing the concept of the film beyond the basics; You have likely already been informed in full. It’s not that the idea [...]
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