Concerning Colossi

It has been a fortuitous day, today. Remember that PlayStation 2 I've been chatting about for so long? Well, I was finally able to buy the bloody thing. I got it set up and spent a little under two hours playing Shadow of the Colossus, and the whole business rocks on toast in a serious kind of way. Once I've played a good chunk of Colossus (and potentially beaten it) I'll post a review.

Game reviews are actually something I hope to make a regular part of this blog. I would be utterly content to review games for a living, if it was at all possible. Unfortunately, I suspect that those jobs happen to be extremely competitive. Lots of folk want to write about video games for a living.

In any case, my next post will most likely be a review, though not of Colossus. It will cover another (freeware) game, Dwarf Fortress, that has seized my attention in a very violent way and doesn't seem to want to let it go. I'll never know what precisely makes ASCII games so addictive. I suppose because the graphics are so bloody simple that a lot more time gets spent on the actual game. That makes a kind of sense, really. The game industry ought to be informed.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've a minor domestic crisis to attend to.

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