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Various Games
Nov. 18th, 2008 02:04 pmSomehow my memory had filed the Ratchet and Clank games - starring as they do a fluffy protagonist and robot sidekick very reminiscent of Gir - as very innocent, which made it a bit of a surprise to be continually reminded of their underlying air of sort of cheerful wrongness. For a start, the third game happens to be called (I promise you) Up Your Arsenal (the European releases, for whatever reason, decided they couldn't call games things like that and they were simply numbered). And throughout the game there's a sort of Futuramaish humour that would show a universe that would really seem quite tragic if it wasn't played for laughs - like the announcements in the background that say "All life forms please report to section B for execution" and (the current highlight) an upbeat sort of Europop song about exterminating everyone. I hadn't actually realized that she was meant to be Britney Spears until much later. Such is my awareness of popular culture.
I also didn't know that the series had grown quite so extensively since the last time I saw it - even though I thought of it as a very new series, it's now over six years old. Once again, time's going past too quickly. Anyway, the games have extended on to the PS3, and they've chosen to call the latest one Quest for Booty. Just as well there are no innuendoish misinterpretations to get out of that, then.
I've been playing Mother 3 on the train a lot recently, and ( I have some possible non-plot-related spoilers up to chapter 4 ).
Finally, no matter how validly thematic the title is, I just can't take the new action/horror game from the creators of Half-Life seriously at all if they've chosen to call it Left 4 Dead. Ace.
I also didn't know that the series had grown quite so extensively since the last time I saw it - even though I thought of it as a very new series, it's now over six years old. Once again, time's going past too quickly. Anyway, the games have extended on to the PS3, and they've chosen to call the latest one Quest for Booty. Just as well there are no innuendoish misinterpretations to get out of that, then.
I've been playing Mother 3 on the train a lot recently, and ( I have some possible non-plot-related spoilers up to chapter 4 ).
Finally, no matter how validly thematic the title is, I just can't take the new action/horror game from the creators of Half-Life seriously at all if they've chosen to call it Left 4 Dead. Ace.
