01.30.08
Alive.
If you haven’t noticed, there’s been a significant lull in the new releases schedule.
Yep. It’s January. The most dreary time of the year. The excess and joyous emotion of the holidays are over, and we’re left until February with nothing to do but read the Smash Bros. Blog and dissect every screenshot, video, encrypted email, dog whistle, and fart Sakurai gives us in hopes of maybe catching a glimpse of Lucario’s Up+B attack. (My money’s on Sky Uppercut.)
I myself have been slogging through a lengthy kitchen renovation, coupled with the pre-Superbowl rush at work, which has left me with very little time for gaming. That which I’ve been able to spare has been focused upon Soul Nomad and the World Eaters, which I’m remiss in reviewing and I apologize.
I’d be tempted to make promises… but that’s my usual sign of desperation. Horrible thing, though, is that it tends to work.
Eh, why not. New RandomNPC link and review (of either Soul Nomad and/or the new Advance Wars, which I need to get my mitts on) by Superbowl Sunday, or double your money back.
01.10.08
Review in 106: Spice and Wolf
Last year, I wrote a number of reviews of up-and-coming anime… in exactly 106 words. Well, I guess this makes them more synopses than reviews, but in the majority of cases it’s for the first episode of a series as soon as it hits the ‘net. That being said, since I’m kind of in a dead spot for gaming (still trying to finish Revenant Wings, even though I want to throw my DS in the Mon every time I pick that game up anymore…) I’ll keep writing just to keep the blood flowing. (Or I buy a PSP and document that extensively. The temptation continues.)
So! Without further ado… the Review in 106 of Spice and Wolf. (I think that preamble is longer than the piece itself…)
We’ve heard it all before: technology is destroying older culture, monotheistic religions are bastards, and furries are pervading damn near everything. That being said, this Scrapped-Princess-meets-Okami tale certainly felt good to watch. Lawrence, traveling merchant, visits a farming town whose prosperity is owed to cunning allegiances and more efficient agricultural practices… meaning they have no use for the wolf-god-spirit-thing that -used- to safeguard their wheat. Now said spirit (manifest as a naked chick) is bored and wants to hitch a ride to her homelands back north. However, leave it to the church to cock things up. (This is the cost of having a tail in public.)
