Electric Barrier Reviews

Old Games I Played This Year: Metal Gear Solid 4: The Guns of the Patriots . I replayed this because I bought the limited edition off of eBay. If you don't know, it comes in a really nice matte finish box with a metal plate featuring Yoji Shinkawa artwork that has a little part that slides off and reveals the cases inside. It comes with the game and a special behind the scenes blu-ray which I have not yet watched.  MGS4 isn't as bad as you might remember it if you hate it, and not as good as you might remember it if you love it. I mean from my point of view at least we're talking about subjective shit here. Like, I'm not gonna go over all the criticisms because many, many people have done so. I think it's a stupid, ass-pull story which either overexplains things that didn't need to be explained or completely retcons things which should have stayed where they were. It's too brown, the cutscenes are too long, it's long winded, pretentious, and in desperate

 Biggest Ultra Omega God-Form Giga Super Saiyan Blue Spoilers! DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVEN'T COMPLETED THE GAME!  Filler text so the post preview doesn't give it away: Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consecutor adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod temor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiate nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidata non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserun mollit anim id est laborum. With that out of the way, I ask you: Does Sunny deserve forgiveness, or not? Is his crime so abhorrent that he is unworthy of being forgiven for it, no matter how sorry he is, or how regretful and guilty he feels? Is it more important that he forgive himself, and not ask for forgiveness from others? I'm not asking "will be be forgiven", but "should he?". I c

The NPCs of Deeper Well are basically perfectly executed. Much like Stranger, what they are and the context in which they give you their cryptic and philosophical dialogue, makes it incredibly palatable to anyone who would otherwise roll their eyes. Had any other characters tried to say these things, many players would probably deem this game pretentious. Due to their placement, surreal, atmospheric, and unsettling Deeper Well and Black Space, it's easier to accept the nature of their dialogue.  It fits, is basically what I'm saying.  But, what does it mean? While, by design, some might write off what they all say as nonsense. The Stranger in particular has a hostile and slightly antagonistic tone to what he says, easily allowing people to hand wave what he says.  But they do mean something, I hope with this post to make some sense of it. I want to note how much of these appear as if they cryptically refer to things specifically in the dream world, but I think they secretly app

BIG OLD MASSIVE SPOILERS, OBVIOUSLY DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T PLAYED THE GAME The first of a series of analysisess? Analysees? Whatever! on the subject of the indie game Omori, by Omocat. I love this game, am obsessed with it at least for the time being, and I have a lot to say. Hopefully I'll actually make more of these but we'll see! Oh also, in addition to complete unmarked spoilers they also just assume you're familiar with what I'm talking about. I don't want to explain that shit. " He who has a 'why' to live, can bear almost any 'how'." - Friedrich Nietzsche  A young boy stands alone in a white void. Well, not alone. True, someone else is there. His shadow? Some alter ego? The real him? Who knows? But that's not why he's not truly alone. If this is part of himself, then he'd alone. All that's there would be him. But, alone is what he'd been for 4 years. In that same sense, he'd not been; This other him

So, I haven't felt like making a game of the year post until around now. I know it's literally over halfway through 2021, but A: No one reads this blog and 2: Better late than never, right? So saying, welcome to my Game of the Year 2020 edition post!  I played 11 games last year, 4 of them were remasters. It's like every year!  I'm bad at these intros, what do you want me to say? Here we go: Best Remaster: Bayonetta and Vanquish Anniversary Collection VS Megaman Zero & ZX Collection I played both of these collections of old games in 2020, but which one is better? Well, on the one hand, the Bayonetta one allows you to play Bayo on a Sony console without the performance being garbage. The PS3's is so bad that /v/ considers it unplayable. Now, I can deal with the PS3 version, but now I don't have to. Don't have to get a copy of Vanquish either! On the other hand, it's just two PS3 games that are like, already being remastered? The Megaman Zero and ZX Co