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We Need Grave Dirt! A Vampyre Story

We Need Grave Dirt! A Vampyre Story

I’ve just played through the demo for A Vampyre Story after I heard it was done by the Monkey Island chaps, which, while I’ve never played (please, no stones or arrows), does send pleasurably tingles down my newly awakened appreciation for adventure games (after playing The Longest Journey). This is taking the comical route of placing you in the ridiculous proportions of a newly turned vampi(y)re named Mona, with her bat pet/friend called Frederick. Impressions through the jump.

Thoughts: The Longest Journey

Thoughts: The Longest Journey

This is a bit of a spiritual successor to the stuff I was doing on my blog, but in a new and improved form! Count yourselves lucky. Essentially, it’s a sort of pseudo-review without any sort of critical backing, and more a mind-splurge on a page in a bunch of metaphors and personal events. This time, it’s concerning The Longest Journey, a game almost a decade old from Funcom, who most recently did the Age of Conan MMO. It’s an…

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A Dangeresque Roomisodic Adventure Game!

A Dangeresque Roomisodic Adventure Game!

I like adventure games quite a lot.  I’ve even bought some of the newer entries to the (apparently) dying genre, such as Broken Sword: Angel of Death and all the new Sam and Max games (ergh).  Amongst these sits the awesomeness that is Homestar Runner, and their rather brilliant adventure games released on a monthly schedule. SBCG4AP (as the kids are calling it) is very, very good, but it’s missing something integral to a legendary adventure game, (S)VGA graphics.  Thankfully…

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