Ongoing games:
noodles Final Fantasy 2 (iPhone)
noodles Deadly Creatures (WII)
belajjal Bayonetta (360)
ricochet Final Fantasy XIII (PS3)
Latest additions:
God of War 3 (PS3)
Metroid Other M (WII)
Halo Reach (360)
VVVVVV (PC)
Need for Speed: Shift (PS3)
Recently completed:
ricochet Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (PC)
ricochet VVVVVV (PC)
ricochet Super Bomberman (SNES)
ricochet God of War Collection (PS3)
ricochet Megaman X (SNES)
Latests comments:
noodles
Wow, it's really been this long since the site launched? And it's really been this long for the new design to go up?
I blame commercialism, since it's keeping me too busy.
Now, since this little mistake I made launched the redesign too early I guess I'll have to finish the programming as well. Oy vey.
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Resident Evil
by noodles on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 14:52 - Comments: 0
Audio; it's more important than you think.
The Resident Evil franchise, know by the more story-based-appropriate title in Japan: "Biohazard", has gone on for over 10 years. The high sales-numbers are not from the launch-weekend, but from different versions that are slowly seeping off the shelves across all the years. While the latest numeral iteration came out this year for the current-gen consoles, I took a trip down video-game-history-lane and in an attempt to explore my recently discovered discomfort with horror-games experienced the Nintendo GameCube-remake of the Sony PlayStation title Resident Evil; on my Wii.
Being one of the original titles from the "survival-horror" genre, I'm guessing that anticipation played a big part of my comfortless relation to the game. I do, however believe that the updated visuals and audio of the remake may have helped my (way too easy) immersion.
You get to play one of two characters, Jill Valentine or Chris Redfield. What character you pick only affects the game slightly, or so I've heard, so I went with the guy for no other reason than him being a guy. Don't get me wrong, I'm not unfamiliar with playing female characters.
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tags: wii resident evil horror playstation gamecube jill valentine chris redfield survival
Luigi's Mansion
by belajjal on Sunday, June 28th, 2009 at 10:00 - Comments: 0
One of the release titles for the Gamecube back in 2001 and strangely the only "Mario" release title. Many people criticized this lack of a proper Mario title, forcing Nintendo to rush the even more criticized Mario Sunshine to the market.
Luigi's Mansion in underrated. If you see past the Mario-release-title situation you will find a strange combination of a cute Resident Evil 1, Ghostbusters and a lot of influences from point-and-click adventures. The game has no in-game clock but I estimate the playtime to be about six hours long. The short length is more or less the only real complaint I have about the game.
Mario has gone missing after winning a mansion in a contest he didn't even enter. Luigi starts looking for him and the game starts when Luigi enters the mansion. After an incident where a ghost faces the easily-scared Luigi the mad scientist, Elvin Gadd, shows up explaining about the mansion. The house is apparently created by the Boos (the shy ghosts from the other Mario games) and many of the doctor's captured ghosts has gone missing. He gives Luigi the Poltergust 3000, a Ghostbusters style vacuum cleaner, to suck them up. A total of 21 main ghosts have escaped and the doctor asks for your help.
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