Posted by Rob on March 9, 2011 – 5:35 pm
Gamefly sent me an e-mail informing me that they shipped Bayonetta on Friday, and I finally received the game today on Wednesday. Gamefly is continuing to put me through this four-day shipping cycle, and I don’t like it one bit. I want my two-day shipping cycle back!
On another note, I’ve heard that Bayonetta is a relatively short game, so I hope to finish it up by Friday so I can ship it out by Saturday. This way by the time I get back from Vegas there should be another game waiting for me. I put about an hour into it today, and I couldn’t believe the amount of downtime, especially when loading a level or saving a game. But the sheer awesomeness of the game makes up for that…I mean, what other game is there where demon witches turn their hair into giant monsters who eat even gianter bosses?!
Posted by Rob on February 27, 2011 – 9:00 am
Filed under Video Games
Tagged as 360, A.I., big bad bob, bigbadbob, bulletstorm, FPS, game review, gamefly, gretchen, heinrich, holda, killzone 3, knights contract, PlayStation 3, PS3, witch, xbox, xp
Last weeks new releases were mainly FPS (Killzone 3 and Bulletstorm) and I wasn’t feeling any of that. So I decided to gamble on a action beat em’ up that was getting little attention in the gaming media. I believed that I would enjoy this type of game over a FPS, but I was indeed wrong.
Knights Contract has a very interesting story/premise, but it just is not delivered well. You play as Heinrich, a knight who was charged with executing women accused of being witches. One of the witches you execute curses you, making you an immortal who just wants to die and move on. Eventually you meet up with this witch, Gretchen (who has returned from the grave), and the two of you become unlikely allies as you team up to take down the other resurrected witches who are trying to get revenge on mankind. The two of you will travel through a variety of bland environments where you walk to an area, beat up some enemies, walk to the next area, beat up more enemies, and rinse and repeat until you reach the boss. The catch in the game is that while Heinrich can’t die, Gretchen can, so you will be defeating enemies while ensuring that Gretchen is safe. If Gretchen dies, it’s game over. If you die (ie- lose your health), you will be downed for several seconds and need to rapidly pound on the x button to resurrect yourself and hope that Gretchen doesn’t die during this time.
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Posted by Rob on February 20, 2010 – 12:23 pm
Filed under Movies
Tagged as comedy, dwayne johnson, fantasy, magic, michelle pfeiffer, movie, netflix, princess bride, robert de niro, romance, shakespeare, stardust, the rock, witch
We got Stardust in from Netflix kind of on accident. I had been interested in watching it, but I hadn’t intended on seeing it yet. Needless to say, I didn’t keep an eye on my queue, and in it came. However, it ended up being quite a pleasant film, and if anything I was mad at myself for not renting it sooner.
Stardust is a romantic/fantasy/comedy movie, and definitely reminded me of The Princess Bride in terms of how it is presented to the viewer. The basic plot is that a star (that for whatever reason is human) falls from the sky, and everyone wants a piece of it. The protagonist Tristan wants to bring a star to the local woman he has his eyes on to prove his love for her. Some witches want her because, in this fantasy world, witches eat the hearts of stars in order to regain youth and magical power. There are also two princes who are attempting to get the star, because whoever has her necklace will become King. Tristan gets to her first, and attempts to escort her back to his town while avoiding the wily witches and greedy ruthless princes. As might be expected from a romance movie, along the way Tristan falls in love with the star, which eventually leads to a happy ever after.
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