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Brand-new visual styles reach out and grab you: the cartoony TF2, the truly glorious shine of Mirror's Edge, the art of Okami, the cel-shading comic aciton of Viewtiful Joe, and too many more to count. Inventive art isn't an exclusively indie province! When I see something so new in any direction I have to try it, and while that attitude's not limited to art that is the first thing I'll see when searching for something to buy."
Take that away to create the feeling of helplessness and you haven't created an atmosphere of vulnerable horror, you've created a "Playing as the stupid sidekick level" - and gamers hate those."
*Not that this affects anything but random chance, but I'm damned if I'll ever write a zero-content comment."
It also understands the art of sequelization far better than the games did: you have to keep raising the stakes instead of just complicating them. And anyone upset that they ignored the RE game plot, well, they don't realise that "RE game plot" is an oxymoron. "
Second: Kriss Kross and Power Factory are just generically terrible music-editing games. It doesn't matter how much they suck, after a few minutes most of your mind goes into protective shutdown. I demand Wirehead, whose attempts at narrative will force your brain to pay attention to the agony!"
Cheers Mark, showing up on your weekly radar-sweep of the videogaming spectrum is cool!"
A Steam code would bring me back there for a while."
Best Joy Derived From Undeserved Source: The return of Kid Icarus. Yes, we've been waiting years for this! It's going to be fantastic! Has anyone actually played the original since! Oh god I'm going around in circles in this bloody grid of a maze again! GOD DAMN YOU GAME I'M AN EGGPLANT AND THEREFORE BUGGERED!"
Ken, Akuma, Sagat, Akuma, Ken: I'M CHEAP!
Chun-Li, Cammy, Jury, Sakura, Rose: I'm a bit creepy! (Most are fine characters, but months of play has revealed to me that the only reason anyone could possibly use Cammy is her intro camera angle.)"