Stuff I've been eating.

[prog]

JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL was my train-riding book today because I had no other, and I found that the very next chapter addressed the continuing fates of the characters I had taken for forgotten. I stand by my earlier criticism, because there is a very real difference between a reader anticipating missing characters' return, and wondering if the author's simply misplaced them.

LOST continues to be a soup of delightful and spicy meatballs floating in a broth of stale television cliches. Usually I have no palate for it, and sometimes I just have to have five bowls of it. I slurped down a good half-dozen episodes over the last 24 hours, and have three more to go before I know what half my flist is so happy about.

PSYCHONAUTS is wonderful, and is currently a $15 download for XBox 360 users. (I understand PC users can enjoy it via Steam, as well.) I have a lengthy post about it that I may actually finish someday. Suffice to say it's certainly the best written platformer-genre game I've ever played.

RACE FOR THE GALAXY is an amazing card game and I wish to play it again right now. I will almost certainly be purchasing a copy soon.

Comments

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

It really is testament to Tim Schafer's superb writing that Psychonauts is magnificent despite being a terrible platform game. I am tempted to buy it again on 360 just to make sure they know I want more games like that.

[prog.livejournal.com]

This is interesting... what makes it a bad platformer, for you?

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

Meat Circus. You will know what I mean when you see it.