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Lyrically F&L2 is solid, but something about the overall production didn't really gel with me. Lasers is the opposite, where I think it sounds pretty good but it's definitely his weakest writing. I'm just so happy that Tetsuo is the best of both worlds.

"More of the same" is true enough because it really is a weird combination of Reservoir Dogs, Django, and Inglourius Basterds, it's his only film that feels SO referential to his own work thematically and structure-wise. I really liked it, but it took me about a week to warm up to it. The ...

I'm sorry that I don't really have a lot to say on any new games. However I would like to ask people's opinions on what would be a good 2p co-op game to get. Me and a friend are nearing the end of Mario3d which has been perfect in terms of being cooperative while still having a competitive aspect t...

X1 through X4 are all good and then the quality falls off a cliff hard.

My Mega Man order is probably 9, 2, 6, 1, 3, 10, 4, 5, 8, 7. None are bad but the last bunch in that list are pretty average.

2015 in Games

Game list is up, enjoy.

Hateful Eight - A friend said it was good, but so uncomfortable she has no interest in seeing it again. Curious. I actually felt this way for about a week after seeing it, now I could watch it again. It's just so totally hopeless and bleak that it's crushing to watch; there's absolutely no one to r...

I didn't watch any of them either, but I'd meant to see Fury Road. I don't understand the trailers for Hateful Eight at all. Either the ads are doing a terrible job of explaining it, or it's supposed to be a kind of.. locked room mystery with 8 dudes and Tarantino style? Only other names that are j...

Nathan Karr wrote:I didn't watch any of those.

I don't care.

2015 in Movies

Will post the 2015 Games one Friday.

I've now seen almost every 2015 movie I wanted to see! Only ones I missed were Macbeth, Freeheld, Straight Outta Compton, Anomalisa, and Room. My list is at a ridiculous 33 movies and I'm going to work on my Best of the Year article in hopes of posting it Friday. Here's my tier list of this year's m...

My favorite difficulty scaling game is still God Hand, where enemies dramatically change directly in response to how well you're playing minute to minute and the harder they get, the better the reward. It's so smooth that once you get into a groove it just feels totally natural, but players who aren...

The best way I can describe it is that Rogue Legacy reminds me of games that reduce their difficulty each time you fail at something, which comes off as patronizing. Obviously you could get around it easily by deliberately not spending your gold, but it's also difficult to tell what the "inten...

I had a good time in Rogue Legacy trying to finish the game with the fewest character incarnations possible, and if I failed once, no big deal. Sure, you can easily just grind up for hours and make the game much easier, but the same's true of anything with experience points. The argument about this ...

Could someone explain the appeal of games where you have exactly one shot to get through every single segment of it? In my experience, all it does is make the game become exceptionally frustrating when the segments get even somewhat lengthy (the last area of Super Meat Boy comes to mind). I general...