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Silent Hill Wii: No Combat, Just Chase Sequences
So says GoNintendo about the just-announced Silent Hill game. Quite a shift from the last game, Silent Hill Homecoming, which has an increased focus on combat and confrontation.
That Handsome Devil’s Rob the Prez-O-Dent. An ugly song, but it’s been in my head for a couple days now.
xkcd:: Alternative Energy Revolution
I’m not as big a fan of xkcd as I used to be (which isn’t saying a lot), but today’s wind-turbine-themed comic is definitely one of my favorites.
Actually, if the comic wasn’t anything more than the first panel, it’d still be high on my list.
Hot Leg’s Cocktails. Justin Hawkins brings back the fire back after rehab and recovery and the The Darkness’ flame going out.
Dodes’ka-den: True Colors
Essay on the latest Kurosawa release by Stephen Prince, who has commentated several Criterion releases of Kurosawa’s films and written a book on the writer-director-editor.
Scarlet in Silent Hill Homecoming. This one’s extra gory and ugly, even by Silent Hill standards.
Things in the video start to go bad at 1m29s, do go bad at 2m47s, and from bad to worse at 5m30s.
Better video of the beginning hallway sequence , which also includes a longer version of the Scarlet battle.
Ran on Blu-ray: May 12th
And just a year and four days after I kindled a hope. Kagemusha next, please.
Actually, I don’t own a Blu-ray player, but it’s nice news, player or no.
That’s a wrap! See you in the spring!
Gateway games
Puzzle-adventure games Gateway and Gateway II: excellent stuff. A few clever puzzles, a little bit of suspense, an unsettling atmosphere (including sound effects and music from the creepy Thief games and System Shock 2) and a solid 45 minutes of gaming on a fine Saturday afternoon felt just right.
But if puzzle-solving robots aren’t exciting enough, Killer Japanese Seizure Robots robots are always standing by and ready to please, or cause seizures.
A durian might taste like almond-y custard, but the Southeast-Asian fruit also apparently stinks to high heaven.
