Dark Souls PS3 Review

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This one is a sequel to previous title Demon’s Souls. The dark and shadowy palette is the set up for a castle of horrors. You get into battle after selecting gender, (hurrah), class and other attributes in a mid range character creation system.

You can choose a female gender character. You can control the body dimensions a and size. You can use presets for the face, or you can get deeper into it and adjust individual facial features. My character turned out scarred and zombie-ish no matter what I did. Perhaps this is no place for pretty. Another plus was having the choice to play as a Pyromancer. Read more »

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When Pigs Fly iPad Mini Review

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When Pigs Fly is a very soothing mellow game. Penelope Pig manages to fly, with her own homemade wings. To gain momentum she has to run up hills and leap skyward, with your help of course. She needs to pick up pink gum drops, and avoid snapping alligator jaws. When Pigs Fly seems to be a take off on Tiny Wings, and instead of an airborne chicken, you have this funny little pig.

The music is relaxing, and the game offers easy mindless distraction, for a short period of time. The floaty quality of the play style requires little from the gamer, and provides a good way to untie the knots in your brain. Game play is simple, you tap, swipe and release. If you time things correctly the pig will launch into the air. If an alligator eats the pig, then it’s game over.

When Pigs Fly is enjoyable simple and cute. Just the right amount of bacon, that any game should have.

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Dark Meadow iPad Game Review

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Finally a true survival horror game to play for Halloween creep-out enjoyment. Unexpectedly it is for the iPad and not a console game. Previously horror games for iPad were limited to hidden object puzzles like Psychic Detective or Haunted Manor. Dark Meadow rides upon the incomparable Unreal Engine for iPad.

Even though it crashes fairly often on the original16G iPad running iOS 5, it runs like a bat straight out of hell on the new iPad2. It’s resource heavy, similarly to Infinity Blade, one of many things that it has in common with the hack and slash fighter, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Take the gorgeously gruesome graphics that resemble Infinity Blade, banged together with the horrid Alchemilla hospital and some of the sound cues from the original Silent Hill, and you’ve got a spooky stew there.

You wake up sideways in this madhouse, and need to escape it. You fight off very well rendered enemies that range from goat headed baphomets, to winged phalus flap-heads, to gooey, fleshy jabbas. A few ghosts, specters and other diaphanous beings haunt you. You aren’t defenseless either, but what I wouldn’t do for a trusty fireball to chuck at some of these beastly baddies. Read more »

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Sniper: Ghost Warrior PS3 Review

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Sniper: Ghost Warrior is a first person shooter that has absolutely nothing to do with ghosts. It isn’t a Halloween game at all. “Ghost” in this instance is a military terminology that means a sniper who is never seen or heard. Sometimes one of these fringe games that don’t get all the hype can be good fun. Sniping is often the most challenging and satisfying part of gameplay in a shooter and it seems like you never get enough of that if it is your favorite part of gaming. Sniper Ghost Warrior goes part of the way into giving you that.

It offers a single player game mode, but it is woefully short. We finished it in under four hours. That is disappointing, and really not a good value for the money at all. There is multiplayer, but not two person one console co-op which would have been fantastic in this game. Read more »

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More Ghosts in My Machines: (Fuck You Death)

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I hate you Death! Fuck you hard Death! The place where my writing mojo comes from is deep down at soul level. It exists right next to the depression section in my psyche. I’ve been in mourning.

I haven’t written a word in two weeks. Almost two years ago my older brother, an expert hiker “fell” off a cliff and died in a freak hiking accident. That uber-nerd older brother was my geek mentor. I’ve mentioned him in several places in this blog. Apple’s soap opera story, and inventions were something that my brother and I bonded over throughout the years. So Death got him. And then George Carlin, and now of course Steve Jobs. This trinity of brainiacs keeps forming into a visual of a black and white tattoo of the three of them. Read more »

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