Just finished with Arthur C. Clarke’s Firstborn, thus wrapping up the Time Odyssey trilogy. I am left with that weird deep satisfaction slash sadness of having read something good that I’ll remember for a long time. Having to say goodbye to a world I so liked is always tough.
Fancy readin’: The Dreaming Void
Monday, September 15th, 2008
I’ve completed The Dreaming Void, from the mind of Peter F. Hamilton. I’m a bit of a sucker for omghuge space operas, and Hamilton certainly provided that in full with his humongous trilogy: Night’s Dawn. I know he’s not for everyone, Night’s Dawn in particular had a pretty… extreme take on the fiction part of Science Fiction that will leave some people disgusted. But I digress.
Castle Crashers
Sunday, August 31st, 2008
Left to right: Lightning, Poison, Fire, Ice knight
Wow, I just played Castle Crashers non-stop for… just about seventeen hours straight!
Went at it with a friend, local coop, all day and night. I haven’t binged on a game like that in years. It felt good. The game’s way beyond excellent, it’s a wild and frothing torrent of beautiful art and incredible gameplay. Both of us felt our characters were awesome unstoppable forces of destruction, and yet teamwork was required throughout. That’s a pretty delicate balance to strike, but it heightened the experience exponentially. I had the lightning guy, he can keep a whole row of people in perpetual shock for a good amount of seconds, doing hellish damage in the process. My friend got the fire knight, he fully covered the screen in an inferno of fire and death. Awesome!
n+
Monday, August 11th, 2008
n+ is a stellar game! The gameplay is abstracted down to the purest action possible, utilizing only a few types of enemies and a handful of level-tiles it nevertheless manages to provide several hundred levels of intense platforming fun. Intense being the keyword. On certain levels in particular it became painfully obvious that I died every time I lost focus. Even the act of thinking about whether or not I was losing focus would make me die. It was like the more I played the more I became aware of that process, and how poor control I have over the things that goes through my mind.