20 Feb

Game Review: Catherine

Posted by vagrantesque in Games, PS3, Xbox 360. Tagged: , , .

This is probably the closest I’m going to get to posting a videogame review at the time of its launch. I usually take quite a while to finish games (if I finish them at all).
I imported Catherine two months ago with a friend and finished it recently. Catherine was released in the USA last July, but was only released here in Australia two days ago.

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Platform: PS3, Xbox 360
Developer: Atlus
Rating: MA15+
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Risque?

The key is to look at the OTHER stuff on the cover. That gives you a better idea of the kind of crazy game you’re in for.

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“The Immoral Beast has appeared. It’s the killer. Do not die.”

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Oh, how these words haunted me while playing through Catherine. As stupidly obvious as they may sound, heeding them is easier said than done when you’re trying to solve devious block puzzles with an oppressive time limit and a grotesque mess of body parts constantly on your case. Make no mistake, Catherine is a very crazy, very difficult game. But it is also a multi-layered experience that rewards persistence and skill by telling a story the likes of which no other mainstream game has ever attempted. Dare I say it is worth a look. Continue reading

19 Feb

On Reviewing

Posted by vagrantesque in Misc. Tagged: , , , .

We live in a world where entertainment media saturates our lives. Music, movies and videogames make billions of dollars every year and the vast majority of us are contributors to this in some way. As frequent consumers of this media living in financially troubled times, we often turn to the opinions of others to help us make a decision on what to part with our money for. They can make us feel more at ease about our purchasing decisions and, if things go sour, they give us someone to blame.

Stack it up

CDs and DVDs and Blu-Rays oh my!

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Whether the opinions we seek are those of our close friends, professional critics or random people on the street, the end result is some kind of review. From essay-length dissections to that old chestnut of eloquent wisdom, “It’s pretty good”, they can all be useful in their own way.

But because people are all so different from one another, opinions tend to vary quite wildly from person to person. Different experiences and personalities influence the way we react to the things we consume. Yet you might find that Continue reading

18 Feb

Well, Would You Look at the Date

Posted by vagrantesque in Misc.

Time to kick this thing off for realz.

So here we are, in the middle of February already, the lazy months of the year all but over.

I have been giving lip service about writing an entertainment blog since the start of 2012 and I believe it’s about time to get started.

LEAFY LEAVES!

Shamelessly generic, attractive, thematically apt picture designed to represent starting new things

To make up for lost time I will be going all out on this blog for seven days, posting every day.

What will these posts contain? Follow Vagrant Rant (and click the “what?” tab above) to find out! Just insert your email address into the box on the right and you’ll get all the misdirected insight you could ever dream of right in your inbox!

I’m Ryan, by the way. Nice to have your company. Let’s do this.

1 Feb

Paralysis of Indecision

Posted by vagrantesque in Misc.

So I’m getting my head around how this blogging thing works, but where do I start?

So many things I could write about. Can’t decide what to tackle first…

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I’m going to bed.

 

28 Jan

Bloggity Blog

Posted by vagrantesque in Misc.

I’m writing a blog!

But I’m not going to write about writing a blog!

(Not yet anyway).

Hmmm WordPress… How does do?

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