What you missed this week: The Woman in Black (CineSneak Preview @ CineStar Metropolis in Frankfurt)

The CineSneak returns after a three week hiatus. With a convincing British historical horror story set in the late 19th century.

Daniel Radcliffe starrs as a young widower who has to leave his son for the week to work as a lawman. Traveling to the country side he unravels the mystery of a haunted house which the locals would rather see abandoned. But not without causing more and more casualties to occur. Will he really be able to calm the unforgiving soul of the woman in black?

I’m actually glad this wasn’t shown in 3D…

Retro-Touchpen vom Club Nintendo

Heute ist mein hellblauer Retro-Touchpen vom japanischen Club Nintendo angekommen. Mit zwei Tagen Verzögerung, weil die Post offensichtlich weder in der Lage ist, an Anwesende zuzustellen noch am selben oder wenigstens am nächsten Tag eine Abholkarte zu hinterlassen. Die war nämlich erst heute in meinem Briefkasten, mit eingerissenem Umschlag. Was soll das…?

Der Touchpen passt wunderbar zur Farbe meines 3DS.

Heute Mittag hat mir außerdem ein freundlicher O2-Angestellter aus Berlin einen teureren Handy-Internettarif verkaufen wollen. Brauch ich zwar nicht, aber wer Interesse hat, kann sich ja unter 030 40818422 bei ihm melden. Auch wurde ich gestern mit über 90 Spamkommentaren bombardiert. Die ich noch nicht alle gelesen habe… Vielleicht ist ja auch einer dabei, der etwas mit der Seite zu tun hat, zu der er abgegeben wurde. Aber offenbar kommt das Ganze von einem FB-Virus…

So retro...

Wie zu sehen, bin ich noch fleißig am Spielen von Beyond the Labyrinth. Dafür wird es auch bald einen Review bei JPGames geben. In der Zwischenzeit könnt ihr ja meinen Review von Spirit Camera lesen, der dort letztes Wochenende online gegangen ist.

Journey, der neue PSN-Download-Titel von den Machern von Flower, ist übrigens ebenso atemberaubend schön wie der Vorgänger. Auch wenn ich mich gestern im Schnee-Kapitel verlaufen und erstmal die Lust verloren habe…

CineStar Metropolis still closed…

… due to technical problems.

Hopefully they’ll get those fixed ’til the 22nd

Shooting the Main with the Ghost Camera

If you have a 3DS, try clicking on the pics in your 3DS browser to see them in 3D!

What you missed this week (CineSneak Preview @ CineStar Metropolis in Frankfurt)

Nothing, really. Because due to technical problems there weren’t any screenings at the CineStar yesterday evening when I arrived, and there won’t be any until at least Wednesday, or so I was told. Thankfully they returned the money for my already paid ticket.

Making Strange Allies… From Digital Devils to Electric Wave People

In 1987 a game changed the way we interact with opponents in JRPG battles: Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei allowed the player to talk to and even befriend the enemies in addition to the option of fighting them. In the sequel from 1990 the player could even spare a boss’s life, capture him in a jar after his defeat and transformation into a measly frog. This act of mercy ultimately lead to the player being able to side with the demons against an absolutist god who would condemn all demons as evil. In Japan Megami Tensei II was considered one of the four great RPGs of its time, the other three being Dragon Quest IV, Final Fantasy III and Wizardry III.1 http://www.geocities.jp/dobiniq/4RPG-1.htm Two years later in 1992, the series reached its peak with Shin Megami Tensei for SNES:

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  1. http://www.geocities.jp/dobiniq/4RPG-1.htm []

Rhythm Thief R: Review

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What you missed this week: The Grey (CineSneak Preview @ CineStar Metropolis in Frankfurt)

A small group of plane crash survivors tries to escape the cold and the wolves threatening their lives. Their numbers are severely reduced as we experience nature at its harshest and reality at its most cruel. Liam Neeson starrs as a professional wolf hunter trying to save his fellow male workers.

[WarioWare: Do It Yourself] Beauty-Shop

Beauty-Shop

Es gibt bereits eine Menge Mikro- und andere Spiele, von daher ist es fast sicher, dass es ein ähnliches Spiel schon gibt. Tatsächlich kam es mir beim Erstellen so vor, als hätte ich schon mal ein Haarschneidespiel in einem der Wettbewerbe gesehen.

Trotzdem habe ich alles selbst gemacht, einschließlich der Grafik und der Musik. Ersteres war diesmal sogar einfacher als die Programmierung, obwohl ich zeichnerisch wenig begabt bin. Hier konnte ich aber einiges mit den Geometrie-Tools des Kreativators vorarbeiten.

Der Befehl heißt Schneiden!, aber tatsächlich kann man auch die Extensions verwenden, um die gewünschte Länge zu erzielen.

What you missed (?) this week: Safe House (CineSneak Preview @ CineStar Metropolis in Frankfurt)

I guess there’s a first time for everything. I didn’t like this week’s offering at all.

One of the reasons for that was similar to why I couldn’t quite get into London Boulevard. Too realistically painful violence. But London Boulevard at least had a varied plot and likewise characters, with lots of dialog and characterization. In Safe House the action rarely ever stops. And there’s really only two characters that matter, the former CIA agent gone rogue played by Denzel Washington and the other guy who was supposed to keep him locked up.

The supporting cast gets so little screen time and dialog they are merely extras for the carnage that makes the guy not Denzel Washington question his loyalty to the CIA. And even these two major characters are being less illuminated than some of the minor ones in London Boulevard.

The other problem I had with Safe House was that the plot felt so empty. Of course it had some cool bad assery and lines to go along with it. But inbetween the few events that moved the plot forward there was too much reliance on action. Kind of like The Matrix.

It’s not that I as a viewer couldn’t sympathize with the message of the movie, but it takes an awful lot of time to say so little. Fill your narrative with some more detail and distractions or you’ll end up being obvious and trite.

If you liked the movie, good for you. It just wasn’t for me.