So for my first post back I might, y'know, make a list of the best games of 2013 thus far or review 2005's Killer7 in honor of Killer is Dead releasing on the 27th, I've really been meaning to do that-- Oh, wait, I'm being told right now that Nintendo did something. They did a very bad thing.
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| That one right there, officer, that's the one who threw my common sense out the window |
I would like, for a moment to just think, because I feel like there is a possibility that Nintendo already has a 2D handheld platform on the market (That being a the DS and its many, many iterations). Oh! But they do have a 3D machine. Oh gosh, what if I don't want to play a game in 3D? There couldn't possibly be a slider on the side of the screen that can remove the 3D? Oh, wait, there is? Huh. Well, maybe someone just really want a handheld device that looks vaguely like a slice of cake. Or something. So Nintendo might still have 100 billion in the bank to do crazy stuff like release a system that doesn't actually close, but I have to stay strong in my own heart and not actually get involved with it, because right now it's reminiscent of a handheld game you would get at a Burger King in 2006. As for all the iterations of the 3DS, this is a lot like the Gameboy Micro, which was probably the size of the palm of your hand. Except the Gameboy Advance didn't have a slider on the side that turned it tinier. So I've come to the conclusion that this is for kids. That a flat-ish, hingeless thing could only serve as a pricedropped device an eight year old could try to persuade their parent into getting them. So there's that. Alright. Alright.
So forgetting that for a moment, this has actually been a huge month for games. Pretty much right off the bat we had Dragon's Crown, Vanillaware's handpainted brawler, then Saint's Row 4, Volition's DLC turned full game, which apparently turned out all right. I've actually been able to spend some time with Killer is Dead, and while I'm not super into a developer- especially one I really like, doing an annual release schedule, it actually seems like it turned out pretty alright so far. Not a lot in the way of games in September, really, besides GTA V, which is seeming more and more like it's going to be worth the five year wait after GTA IV. Plus it has a song from Drive in it. I mean, what's not to love, right?
