Black Friday is a national tragedy. Like Aerosmith.

    Finally picked up another handheld game type deal after a lot of hype surrounding it. Way Forward, masters of pretty much everything they do, which are 2D sidescrollers, made an Adventure Time game that's pretty gosh darn swanky. As of writing this I've played through it twice in order to have easier access to the soundtrack. Music by their in-house guy Jake Kaufman, by the way, who's incredible at everything and whatever soundtrack he touches turns to audio gold. Game plays a lot like Zelda 2 as well, which is kinda incroyable. Alsooooo started playin' Binary Domain, which is a super coolio robot shooter by the fine folks who do the Yakuza games. It's a third person squad shooter but it still has the same great writing of a Yakuza game, and a trust system with all the characters that transfers into the gameplay pretty well. Japanese shooters aren't always the most incredible, but it's\games like this and Vanquish where they really shine. Thank youuuu Nagoshi and Platinum Games. Also the Wii-U came out and it has a big goofy touchpad. Whatever.

Dork Sols

    So lately I've resurrected my love for Dark Souls. I'd forgotten what it meant to get destroyed by a vidja. Hard. Mucho hard. The DLC just came out for consoles a few weeks ago and apparently it adds some pretty nifty-like stuff. I took some time back into the game and suffice to say I have made negligible progress since I started back up. The second Grand Theft Auto V trailer dropped this week, too. That looks like sorta the most interesting thing coming out in the next year. It's apparently following the trend of multiple protagonists, but instead of playing all their parts in chunks, you switch between them on the fly, which leads to different mission paths and whatnot. I've never really seen much of that before, but according to the preview it actually seems to work. None of the characters are as goofy as that ol' Siberian Niko Bellic from the last game, but there are jets now so that's okay. Yup. Bowling.

Too many games come out in November

     Here's a... Thing. I'm writing a Resident Evil 6 review but it's taking longer than usual because of how different all the parts of the game are from each other. So that ain't goin up yet. But I shall carry on. So the Wii-U comes out this month, and I have absolutely no intention (or funds) towards getting it. The promise of Bayonetta 2 is awesome, but I'm holding off on buying a console for it, no matter how crazy great it shall be. Instead, obscure puzzle games on the DS! 999 is again appearing before me, and it's kinda swell. It's bordering on a visual novel with how text-y it is, but I suppose it's got some nifty puzzles so it's an adventure game. And the sequel's on both the 3DS and the Vita so it looks a little different, but I'm hearing good things about it. It also apparently has 20 something distinct endings, which is always intriguing. Not like Bioshock with all the lame endings, though. Andrew Ryan.

Detergent

     Most of my video game-type playing lately has been that of Silent Hill 3. It's kinda an interesting experience because I haven't really had to solve any survival horror puzzles on my own in a long time, so I'm getting a lesson in wandering aimlessly. Other than that, that game is a bit awesome. Akira Yamaoka returns with a super oppressive industrial soundtrack that makes you feel awful at all times, which is a good thing. I've also been really interested in this new sequel to 999, which is a series based around math and being not awful Japanese Saw. Apparently the whole game is based around the Prisoner's Dilemma (That old problem about the betrayal type stuff) So that's so experimental it almost makes me wanna play it just based on that. Also folks swallows bombs and blow up. Boom.

Cats on Mars

     Two games have kinda really been on my brain lately. El Shaddai, with all the crazy fancy artsy-ness, and Assassin's Creed 3. I know El Shaddai's technically like a year and a half old and apparently has kinda terrible gameplay, but it's sposed to be an experience (Maaaaan) looks real purdy and the music is kinda incredible. On the other end, I haven't really been following Assassin's Creed 3, but I loved 2 and Brotherhood so I'm assuming it's the same level of quality except with powdered wigs. I'm assuming they've shoehorned multiplayer in there for the third time around, so needless to say I won't be playing that whole deal, but that's half because my internet sucks. I do tend to gravitate towards multiplayer that was obviously just shoved in as opposed to your Call of Duties and your Battlefields. Like Dead Space 2. That had terrible multiplayer, but you could run around as a baby and eat people. Babies are frightening and also soft. Yup.