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Gamer, Blogger, Student

James Reynolds

jamesr87[.at.]gmail.com

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This was rather ashamedly the first holiday season I failed to wish everyone a season’s greetings! Mostly because I was with the people I give a damn about around them anyway! But I hope everyone had a great new year all the same.

What did I get up to I hear you ask? Well … If you go on Facebook you’ll see I was drunk. A lot. Spent a week~ at “Home” and a week with the Lovely Leslie relaxing in Scummer. On the list of things I received, the most notable are:

• Reservoir Dogs
• Equilibrium
• The West Wing (Complete Collection)
• Snow Patrol Album
• An Epic Scarf
• An Awesome Picture (Which I’ve just realized is still at Leslie’s …)
• Some WoW TCG Cards (Including a Darkmoon Faire pack)
• Loads of other great things!

I also bought myself [in the sales]:

• Mirror’s Edge
• CSS Album (Get this!)
• Errr … I bought more than this i’m sure!

Leslie and I also went to see the extraordinarily bizarre movie adaptation The Spirit. I enjoyed it, but it was odd. I mean mindfuck odd. One thing I took away from it, the first adapatation of a works done by Frank Miller but not actually created by him, is that F. Miller has not only reinvented the genre of Comic Adaptations but intends to be the King of the Domain. Good on him.

I have a few comments to make about Mirror’s Edge briefly; I thoroughly enjoyed playing Mirror’s Edge but it really is true what people say – It’s a proof of concept not an actual game. It shows you that you CAN do a freerunning game without it sucking but what it also shows is that a gimmick game is still a gimmick game.

For example, i’m playing the game without using firearms (Not for the achievement, but it helps motivate) as this game bloody should be but I just reached a section that i’m 75% sure can’t be done without a gun. 3 Snipers and 1 of which is inaccessible without walking directly down his line of sight – slowly – for about 40 yards. (I.e. Suicide).

The game starts well enough, ellaborate outdoors freerunning which comes back into it’s own for a few levels later on when the angry ninjas are chasing you. A section which should’ve been much longer considering how exhilirating it was.

Never mind ey? I’ve got my copy now and hopefully someone will take the idea (or even the engine) and do it even better. That’d be really nice.

Not sure what else to say here … I’ll be getting Rise of the Argonaughts for review soon and Leslie (yes, Leslie) will be getting The Last Remnant. It’ll be nice for a JRPG to be reviewed by someone who knows the first thing about them, isn’t a fangirl and doesn’t viemently hate them. Can you guess which one was me?

Haven’t been gaming much besides a little Mirror’s Edge (and a few flash games … and WoW achievement grinds) but i’ll hopefully fix that tonight when I get home! Although god knows what i’ll play … I should unpack, wash and iron all my clothes (all the clothes I didn’t leave at Leslie’s ¬¬) then tidy my room and rearrange my shiz so I can watch DVDs on my laptop and play games on my PC at the same time (No desk space).

*Shakes angry fist*

Let the games begin?

Regards,
JamesR.

Oh and by the way, it’s fucking snowing here would you believe? How utterly typical!