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Mixed-Media Reviews
Jun. 9th, 2015 05:54 pmThe Unwritten Volume 11: Apocalypse - The series comes to an appropriate end, resolving a bunch of characters and bringing an end to the “real” villains of the piece. I’m reasonably certain that the ending was planned from the very beginning. I’m also fairly certain that Carey and Gross designed the series to be able to run as few or as many issues as DC gave them, given that visits to various genres and stories were very episodic in nature. At some point, I should re-read the entire series in one go, as I’m certain there are references in the later books to things I’ve forgotten because I read them five years ago.
Eversion - A free-to-play PC platformer, modeled off of NES games with the twist that you can “evert” the world around you in special spots on each level, changing the properties of the terrain. It’s fairly well known that this isn’t the happy candyland game it looks like at first, but it’s a pretty solid platformer experience regardless. Infinite lives balanced by decent difficulty (especially on level 6); and you need to find all of the hidden gems to unlock the 8th level and the bonus ending. Not for those of nervous disposition.
Atari Flashback 5 - My sister got me this for my birthday, and I was super excited about it because it has a whopping 92 games, and Atari 2600 games are generally simple enough that I suspect ARR could play them soon. The problem is that most of these 92 games aren’t particularly good—the best of the first-party titles for the system were released ages ago on the plug-and-play Joystick and Paddle sets, which I already have. The other really noteworthy games for the system (such as the Superman and Ghostbusters games) are licensed properties they can’t include on something like this. I’m still going to get some fun time out of it, but it doesn’t recapture my Atari-playing youth the way I might have hoped.
The Sport’s Illustrated Swimsuit Issue - Ivy03 got this for free and decided that I might want it, given my affection for women in swimsuits. It’s perfectly nice (though some of the pagefolds are in odd places; the layout has some issues), but I don’t really get why people buy it when Playboy is still publishing—that has both naked ladies and articles actually worth reading.
Eversion - A free-to-play PC platformer, modeled off of NES games with the twist that you can “evert” the world around you in special spots on each level, changing the properties of the terrain. It’s fairly well known that this isn’t the happy candyland game it looks like at first, but it’s a pretty solid platformer experience regardless. Infinite lives balanced by decent difficulty (especially on level 6); and you need to find all of the hidden gems to unlock the 8th level and the bonus ending. Not for those of nervous disposition.
Atari Flashback 5 - My sister got me this for my birthday, and I was super excited about it because it has a whopping 92 games, and Atari 2600 games are generally simple enough that I suspect ARR could play them soon. The problem is that most of these 92 games aren’t particularly good—the best of the first-party titles for the system were released ages ago on the plug-and-play Joystick and Paddle sets, which I already have. The other really noteworthy games for the system (such as the Superman and Ghostbusters games) are licensed properties they can’t include on something like this. I’m still going to get some fun time out of it, but it doesn’t recapture my Atari-playing youth the way I might have hoped.
The Sport’s Illustrated Swimsuit Issue - Ivy03 got this for free and decided that I might want it, given my affection for women in swimsuits. It’s perfectly nice (though some of the pagefolds are in odd places; the layout has some issues), but I don’t really get why people buy it when Playboy is still publishing—that has both naked ladies and articles actually worth reading.
