September 2009
10 posts
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Good Book Get! Asterios Polyp
Asterios Polyp is the first original graphic novel by David Mazzucchelli and it has quickly became one of my favorite graphic novels. First, just look at the above cover. The graphic design for the book is absolutely perfect, and I have nothing to critique.
The novel itself is short of perfect, but I assure you that through weird, but intelligent existentialism, heartfelt illustration and one...
August 2009
17 posts
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Good Game Get! Everyday Shooter
Playstation Network, PS3, and PSP. Queasy Games, 2008.
The term “game-as-design” or some variation of that is thrown around an awful lot these days. It is most often deployed by writers and gamers who really have no clear idea how to articulately describe a game which falls even slightly outside the established bounds of gaming norms.
I’m currently paying Jonathan Mak’s “Everyday Shooter” and...
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Do fat music producers in sweat pants talking...
I’m really tired of mainstream video game media, and if you’re here, and if you read GGG! often, you probably are too. Websites like Joystiq* tend to just copy and paste press releases instead of doing any sort of investigative work or even adding any sort of professional opinion on them.
Take the new Timbaland/Rock Star Games collaboration for example. Before even talking about the...
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NEWER IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER: Medievil
Often, I can’t seem to think about, or write about, videogames without getting personal. It’s like Kyle mentioned in his previous post about Aerith dying in “Final Fantasy VII.” If it happened at the same moment that your parents were knocking on your bedroom door and asking if you wanted Papa John’s pizza, it doesn’t have the same impact that it does if it happened while you were alone in the...
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Barack Obama in Super Mario Bros. Skit on a...
This is one of many Barack Obama references I’ve seen Japan making. Do the Japanese really like President Obama? Are they continually mocking his campaign motto until they get tired of it, or we finally figure out their true intentions?
Barack cameo aside, this Super Mario Bros. skit is extremely entertaining and is one of many of the prop/hidden actor skits on Kinchan no...
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Fantasy Life
The newest collaboration from Mother 3 developer, Brownie Brown and the Professor Layton series creators, Level-5 is a fairly original sounding RPG.
Fantasy Life will be a “slow RPG” according to Anoop Gantayat’s translation on Japanese gaming news site, Andriasang (who have been covering the Level-5 Vision 2009 conference.)
As Eric Caoili of Tiny Cartridge pointed out, the...
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Defining Casual Gaming & Core Gaming
I have a PSP 1000 that my beautiful girlfriend gifted to me for Christmas. It has received a ton of play time from me, her, and her little eleven year old sister who was obsessed with Loco Roco in the winter. Well, actually, all three of us were obsessed with Loco Roco sometime or another this past winter.
Loco Roco is what most would classify as a casual game and while gaming genre...
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LBP Gets H20!
While LittleBigPlanet should have had water to begin with, this update is still welcome, or well, is it an update, or a paid level pack instead?
If it is something we have to pay for, it better be cheap. Indvidual $2.99 costumes have to be helping Media Molecule pay for more than just the electric right?
- Kyle
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she has to: brief commentary on connecting...
If you are planning on ever playing Final Fantasy and do not know the big spoiler, please do not read this post. Thank you.
Video game nostalgia is a funny thing, and you either get it or you don’t. Connecting with a game’s narrative or even presentation can be a very interesting feeling. For instance, if Aeris dies in Final Fantasy VII when your parents are knocking at your door...
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Origins of Luigi
Mario Segale was Nintendo’s warehouse landlord back in the day and supposedly he looked like carpenter/plumber kind of guy and Miyamoto dug that so him and Nintendo named their new video game character Mario.
Like all great Italian plumbers created by the Japanese, Mario needed a brother so the obvious choice was to give him an identical twin named Luigi. Of course, Luigi eventually became...
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If I had a baby...
Oh how I would want the above Link outfit for my first child. How wonderful it would be to have him look back at me with resentment for putting him in a video game character’s costume when he was completely helpless and oblivious to my shenanigans.
- Kyle
via technabob
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Where the Wild Things Are - Trailer Two
This film is looking to be absolutely amazing. I haven’t been this excited about a movie in such a long time.
- Kyle
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nes art sculpture/cookie monster puppet thingy
I can’t describe what you’re looking at any better than the eBay description, so I’ll copy and paste that now.
“You are looking at NES art! Over the last few years I have taken a real liking to rescuing dead consoles and hardware and turning it into sculptures. Very odd sculptures, obviously. I wanted to combine the love I had of NES with my love of Cookie Monster from...
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Color Changing Tingle’s Balloon Trip of Love is...
I played Irozuki Tingle no Koi no Balloon Trip today, and while I can’t understand the text-heavy Japanese game, I will tell you why it’s the bee’s knees.
- The game’s title screen features Tingle in a Wizard of Oz world, skipping along a yellow brick road with the Scarecrow, Lion, and Tin Man.
- Tingle has a really über-cute dog, that he sadly appears to leave...
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Counterfeit eBay Mother Mousepad
I can’t get enough of Retrorama’s terribble copyright infringing merchandise, and the above Mother mousepad is no exception. How incredibly, badly awesome.
For $4.99 it actually doesn’t seem like such a bad deal.
- Kyle
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The Original Patapon
Did Miriam Makeba indirectly inspire Patapon’s lyrics?
I don’t know the lyrics to Pata Pata, but I’m fairly sure Makeba is singing Patapon in the chorus.
- Kyle
Special thanks to Aaron M. for the tip.
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Good Game Get! Fat Princess
I like Robin Williams, and I can honestly say that every line he says in Alladin as the genie, makes me laugh every time I see it. I’m twenty by the way. Robin Williams happens to like video games and Trent Reznor, who happens to like video games too. In fact when I was obsessed with Nine Inch Nails in middle school, I remember obsessing over an awesome E3 photo of John Carmack, Trent...