Video games have always been a big part of my life. My first memory is of playing Super Mario Bros. at the age of three, running through the house screaming because I beat the game. I’ve grown with the industry and seen video games evolve and become a staple of every dorm room in the western world. And yet despite all this growth, I’m always chasing those feelings of pure happiness I had when I was three. No matter how many zombies I shoot or fake bands I rock, I long for those moments of joy and curiosity that games used to instill in me. And after so many years of searching, I’m happy to say that Windosill makes me feel like I’m a child all over again.
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The challenge of calculating probable victory died when I bought the Aimfiz Amulet, which removes the action point cost for returning to base. Don’t get me wrong, I want the most out of the money I’m not spending (or, as noted here, the money I’ve already spent), but life before Aimfix involved my predicting the level I should explore and when I should return home so that my weapon/armor/magic/skill habit retains maximum funding.
With the charm I can, effectively, return to base after each victory, auto-sell what I’ve found, and bank all monies — although for ease of play, who’d want to do such? Since Jolt now allows free roam of the map (in terms of AP-expense, not character level), sliding around to different locations is no longer a tactical concern. I may now feasibly explore dungeons or over-world areas at higher levels because they no longer carry an AP-cost premium. It’s a fair change and one that the public argued for greatly, although it removes some of the risk I enjoyed and now makes me see LoZ as a daily, electronic keeping-up-with-the-Joneses.
Kurt TommyGun still adventures, though it seems a more social environment would better ensure his longevity. Jolt is positioning
LoZ toward this, I think. They’ve improved the interface for friends and enemies, they’ve added the ability to manually accept parties, they’ve added a GPS-like interface on the title screen (allowing me an immediate social perspective of the game world), and they’re integrating
clan support. Without this,
LoZ becomes less of a low-overhead adventure game and more of one-way street to boredom.
It hasn’t been that long since I
wrote about Myst coming to the iPhone and now here it is, all ready to
download from the App Store.
I am little surprised at the price point, $5.99. Really, that’s it? I was going to buy it anyway and now you just went ahead and made it more affordable. That’s noble, considering Myst for the Nintendo DS is/was retailing around the $20 mark. Cyan really made the right choice by not pricing it at the somewhat standard $9.99 for premium games on the App Store. Most certainly, the diehards would buy it at any price, but at $5.99 Cyan is allowing themselves access to a demographic that has never heard of Myst before but may very well just jump in if its reviews on the App Store keep up (currently 4.5 stars).
The entire adventure of Myst in your pocket for $5.99. I’ll write it one more time, to make it even more profound: the entire adventure of Myst in your pocket for $5.99.
Note: I understand not all users carry their iPhone in their pocket. Some IT people and/or older people (not to generalize) like to wear it on their belt that holds up their trousers, as if it show that at any not so particular moment they may need to easily access their phone. In that case I did not mean to discriminate against you. You too can enjoy Myst on your iPhone, just in your case it would be, “the entire adventure of Myst on your trouser belt for $5.99”.
I love my MacBook Pro. Every weekend I perform a ritual of deleting junk files, running antivirus software, and clearing old caches to ensure it runs at peak performance. However after playing And Yet It Moves for a few hours, I wanted to throw my beautiful Mac against the wall out of sheer frustration. And yet despite the rage, I couldn’t manage to tear myself away. Call me a masochist, but I honestly think AYIM may be one of the best games I have ever played.
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Perhaps M said it best in Casino Royale “Christ, I miss the Cold War.” Well, M, I would suggest you and James sit down for a good round of Command & Conquer 3: Red Alert. Sure the tone of the game is less Cold War and more scorching hot, blast the fuck out each other war, but you do get to fight Russians.
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