April, May, decay
May has been an extremely busy period in my life, especially on the professional plane, which meant having even less time than usual for gaming and writing. There are a few things to share, though.
The fourth Film Music Festival in Krakow was a highlight of this month. Beautiful music, famous artists (yes, I consider Hironobu Sakaguchi to be an artist), Distant Worlds and Joe Hisaishi - it could hardly get better than that. I congratulated myself for buying tickets early and paying for good seats (11th row, very close to the scene, two rows behind Sakaguchi-san). Read more of my impressions here.
Mirror's Edge - let me repeat myself: this is a brilliant game. I have beat it again, on hard this time, something that I don't do often. The thing is, Mirror's Edge is more of an experience than a story and the whole running-and-evading-bad-guys thing chills me out and provides fun. I also love visuals and music. I think this game deserves a special note, maybe a retrospective here on Barts News, maybe an article somewhere else. I really feel sad that such an original thing didn't get praise it deserved.
Persona 3 Portable - I finally received my collector's edition via mail. Persona 3 is another brilliant game and if you remember my review here on Barts News, I was totally charmed by it. I have played a few hours as a girl (you can chose female main character), but only a few, due to time constraints. I have to say, though, that coming back to the imaginary world of Gekoukan High and Tartar was a pleasure comparable to revisiting classic games of old times - which means P3P has officially become one of my favourite games ever.
PSN failure - spectacular and epic fail. Not only I could not buy Outland, I also had to invalidate my credit card (just in case) and suffer snide remarks from Xbox360 fanboys and morons who only use prepaid cards, instead of embracing XXI century. I've heard that there will be free games from Sony to make up for that (I'll probably get LBP and that zombie shooter), but really, the whole thing was ridiculous and left me with bad taste in my mouth.
Witcher 2 - now with all the love and admiration I have for this title and its authors, this was the embodiment of why I have grown to hate PC gaming. Hours spent on struggling with patches, updates, drivers, papadongs and shit - instead of playing. I will write more about the game itself when I finally get to play it.
I still need to finish Castlevania and Dragon Age: Origins. The first one has become a little too difficult for casual gaming, the other one has become a grindfest and since I need to go back a few hours due to particularly bad choice I made along the road, I have hard time motivating myself to do it. The story calls me, though, and I really would like to finish this game. Well, both of them actually.
To wrap this post up with a teaser of news to come that you won't find anywhere else, I have become involved with a certain indie game event - but I will write more about it as the whole story unfolds. 'till next time, folks!
May has been an extremely busy period in my life, especially on the professional plane, which meant having even less time than usual for gaming and writing. There are a few things to share, though.
The fourth Film Music Festival in Krakow was a highlight of this month. Beautiful music, famous artists (yes, I consider Hironobu Sakaguchi to be an artist), Distant Worlds and Joe Hisaishi - it could hardly get better than that. I congratulated myself for buying tickets early and paying for good seats (11th row, very close to the scene, two rows behind Sakaguchi-san). Read more of my impressions here.
Mirror's Edge - let me repeat myself: this is a brilliant game. I have beat it again, on hard this time, something that I don't do often. The thing is, Mirror's Edge is more of an experience than a story and the whole running-and-evading-bad-guys thing chills me out and provides fun. I also love visuals and music. I think this game deserves a special note, maybe a retrospective here on Barts News, maybe an article somewhere else. I really feel sad that such an original thing didn't get praise it deserved.
Persona 3 Portable - I finally received my collector's edition via mail. Persona 3 is another brilliant game and if you remember my review here on Barts News, I was totally charmed by it. I have played a few hours as a girl (you can chose female main character), but only a few, due to time constraints. I have to say, though, that coming back to the imaginary world of Gekoukan High and Tartar was a pleasure comparable to revisiting classic games of old times - which means P3P has officially become one of my favourite games ever.
PSN failure - spectacular and epic fail. Not only I could not buy Outland, I also had to invalidate my credit card (just in case) and suffer snide remarks from Xbox360 fanboys and morons who only use prepaid cards, instead of embracing XXI century. I've heard that there will be free games from Sony to make up for that (I'll probably get LBP and that zombie shooter), but really, the whole thing was ridiculous and left me with bad taste in my mouth.
Witcher 2 - now with all the love and admiration I have for this title and its authors, this was the embodiment of why I have grown to hate PC gaming. Hours spent on struggling with patches, updates, drivers, papadongs and shit - instead of playing. I will write more about the game itself when I finally get to play it.
I still need to finish Castlevania and Dragon Age: Origins. The first one has become a little too difficult for casual gaming, the other one has become a grindfest and since I need to go back a few hours due to particularly bad choice I made along the road, I have hard time motivating myself to do it. The story calls me, though, and I really would like to finish this game. Well, both of them actually.
To wrap this post up with a teaser of news to come that you won't find anywhere else, I have become involved with a certain indie game event - but I will write more about it as the whole story unfolds. 'till next time, folks!
