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I suppose I take the other side of video games. I see video games as art. No second guessing. Like fashion, games are a functional art. You can be as artistic all you want, but video games - like clothes - need to function. It needs to work. Now, you can create a video game that exists just for function but that would be bland, right? Bland art, that is. All acts of creation is a work of art, even if it's bland or poorly executed. So that's that. Games are art.
So what have I been doing while not having computer access for about 10 days?
A review of Rez, of course. That and entering a four-day haze of re-playing Final Fantasy IX (and mumbling my way though a review).
Anyway, I saw my scores for the two competitions I entered and hey, nothing wrong with it. I deserved what I got. Hopefully, my next chapter in the Zelda fanfic has, you know, something called clarity? :)
I was actually grappling with Bombastic for a few days. I found it engaging for a while, but that was it. Anyway, the review should find its way sometime on the board. Until then, I have decided not to critique reviews randomly because I discovered that it's really quite nervy. So instead, I will be HG mailing you guys if you want a critique or you can mail me with a request. I'm free for most of the summer so I'll have time to edit and review much more prominently here. I desire to be a copy editor and a reviewer, so I need to get the creds, right?
Waking down,
pinned behind her breasts, to her
spined back,
you
wrestle with the comforter.
Wired hair guards her lips.
Bent legs throw your eyes
over her rose-thorn curves
like just
a dead skin cell -
cutting your tender fingertips
like fresh dandelion seeds -
rotting in a bog of satin
between your jawline and her heart.
From everything that was shown (from the eye candy that was Final Fantasy XIII, Metal Gear Solid 4, Gran Turismo, and most everything else), I thought the most impressive event was the Playstation 3 controller. If not to balance the field with Nintendo's own controller, the six-degree-of-movement controller should be an intuitive user interface - though, besides controlling airplanes, I'm not sure how applicable this will be (outside the scope that the Revolution's - sorry, Wii's - controller has) but we will just have to see. I also hope that this feature is optional, at least in-game, because I surmise that it would be draining on the hands, wrist, and arms to have to continually swing the controller around. Last, the Playstation 3 will be arriving in full blast for a cost of $499 US (20
You will get the most out of this guide if your writing is at the point where you can make what's right even more right. But don't let that stop you. Everyone can grab something here (and I continually read it over to remind myself of effective writing techniques):
Adapted with excerpts from "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser (hint, hint, buy this book):
To say why you think a game is good or bad, in words that don't sound banal and boring, is one of the hardest chores in reviewing.
Maybe I should become a copy editor as well.
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