Anybody who follows me on Twitter or Facebook will know that I have become obsessed with Tim Minchin lately. The singer/songwriter/skeptic/handsome bastard is a genius and well worth watching. The above video is “The Good Book”, his very cynical yet thoroughly brilliant dissection of The Bible. If religious evisceration isn’t your thing, he does loads of other stuff too. An afternoon with Minchin on YouTube is an afternoon well spent.
In other news, videogames happened. Hit the jump to see which ones!
Grim:Super Mario Galaxy 2andRed Dead Redemption. So good!
Concelmo:Still working through the after-120 star section ofSuper Mario Galaxy 2that, for people that know what I am talking about, is HARD AS BALLS! It makes me so happy, though. Also finishing up the final case inAce Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth. Love this game!
North:I’m playingSuper Mario Galaxy 2again, and somehow it seems harder this time around. Also I found out that the Wii Motion Plus helps make picking up star bits a bit easier.
Razak:Super Mario Galaxy 2andProfessor Laytonwhile I’m traveling over the weekend.
Holmes:Mario Galaxy 2,Bit.Trip Runner, back intoMonster Hunter Trifor the new event quests, andGrill Off with Ultra Hand; a WiiWare game that costs 80 Club Nintendo coins. For those that don’t know, you get 10 coins just for filling out a online survey after buying a game. 8 surveys, and you get a free WiiWare game about using an ancient Nintendo toy to barbecue meat. I wish Sony and Microsoft would do stuff like this.
Oh, and I also gotArt Style: Light Trax. It’s sort of screwed up, but I love it.
Chester:PlayingPrince of Persia: The Forgotten Sandson the PSP and the Wii, both of which are wildly different than the 360/PS3 version I just reviewed. As it turns out, that’s certainly not a bad thing; enjoying both of them.
Also played the first hour (or so) ofRed Dead Redemptionand nothing happened. I rode a horse, I shot some foxes (or was it wolves?), I rode my horse again. Oh, and I got shot in a cut-scene. It gets more interesting, right? Also played the tutorial ofUFC 2010, which took me about an hour, as well.
I was also inspired to pick upBit.Trip Runner, which so far is pretty great. Really wish there were global/friends leaderboards for WiiWare games; this doesn’t just apply to Bit.Trip, it applies to everything on the Wii. Why would this have been so difficult to implement?
Sterling:I playedAlpha Protocol, which apparently I loved, thenpretended to hatefor pageviews. Fundamentalist logic at its finest! Also playedSuper Mario Galaxy 2thanks to Mr. Chester, which I actually DO love. AndModNation Racersalong withRed Dead Redemption.
Also playingDual Bladeson my iPod as it was free this weekend and it’s kind of fucking awesome. No idea if it is still free but if it is, you should get it.
Tolentino:This week has been like a “tasting menu” sort of week for me, just an hour or so ofRed Dead Redemption, Resident Evil 5, Just Cause 2, Heavy Rain, Lost Planet 2, God of War 3, Trauma Team, Monster Hunter Tri, Mario Galaxy 2, Dissidia: Final Fantasy,andMass Effect 2. That’s the advantage (?) of having a young nephew with a short attention span around: you get to “ten minute taste” all the games you bought but put on the shelf because you were playing something else.
On the downside, said nephew just told me that Cloud and Sephiroth are awesome, and that they’re “old-school” for appearing inKingdom Hearts 1. I feel so goddamn old now.
Aziz:PlayedHYDRO THUNDER!!!!!!!!!!!!Also was in aJust DanceDance Off here at Wedgecon. I lost.
Sarkar:I checked out theBackbreakerXbox Live demo earlier this week, which was fun even though I had a tough time getting accustomed to the unique way that it plays. I now have a review copy in hand, so I’m going to dig in much further this week. Otherwise, all I played wasRed Dead Redemption. I haven’t done an actual story mission in forever; I’ve just been riding around hunting animals and picking flowers to fulfill challenges, which is really enjoyable because it encourages you to go out and explore the expansive, varied world that Rockstar San Diego crafted. I can’t stop playing it!
