There are certain games that come along from time to time that really get your attention. It could be for the action, the graphics or game play. However, it is a rare occasion that a game grabs you for all of these, plus the amazing experience of becoming emotionally attached and involved in the actions of characters.
It is to this that I write this open letter to Ellie and Joel. I met them in the “The Last of Us.”
*(Please note that I've tried to write this to contain no spoilers.
<p>What bugs me about people who rip into the stories of games which try to tell good, interesting stories but fail (at least in the eyes of the people doing the ripping), like, for example, Bioshock Infinite, is that the language used to mock the games often comes in the form of saying “Games can’t tell good stories, why should you try?”</p>
<p>Not that they’re saying games can’t be art – they know that games can be art, and often the people saying these things want more game
<p><span style="line-height:1.5em;">After a bit of a delay, I’m posting my review of the next issue of Nintendo Power.</span></p>
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<p>It turns out Madame has left some traps in her Membrane’s. That doesn’t sound weird, does it?</p>
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<p>We to take on a new type of enemy, and get a new S-Pressin.</p>
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<p>This time we get to meet Madame for the first time.</p>
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<p>This time we get to fight a big stompy robot!</p>
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<p>This time we make our way through the game’s second sewer level.</p>
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<p>The Remember Me Let’s Play continues, with proof why you shouldn’t play video games with a cat on your shoulder.</p>
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<p>This time we continue to make our way through the slums.</p>
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<p>So, I forgot to post part 8 of my Let’s Play of Remember Me yesterday, so I’m going to make up for that today.</p>
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<p>This time we get to the actual data-steal.</p>
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One of last year’s remarkable critical success stories, Actual Sunlight, is being currently remade into 3D by developer Will O’Neill. The game is testing waters on Steam Greenlight, and a demonstrative beta build of the new 3D version can be downloaded on the developer’s website.
The game is a “short interactive story about love, depression and the corporation”:
Inspired by the game’s resurgence in 3D, I would very much like to go back in time (it’s not like we get second chances very often!)
<p>This time we get to see how the other 1% lives.</p>
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<p>In this episode, we get our first look at one of the S-Pressins.</p>
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"The PS3/Xbox 360/Wii will soon be retro." Yeah, I feel old too. It's similar when I've been indexing magazines lately as I've been doing stuff from 2011 lately and I'm thinking, "Man these systems seem so old and it was only 2011?!"
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