Comments on: Slim Cell Shady: The Adventures of Ambages Demo

By: graham

graham — Fri, 15 May 2009 12:55:50 +0000

Holy Cow, this game looks dreadful.
I’m all for puzzle adventures but this one will be at the bottom self of the PC game section in a supermarket or better still in those special stands in supermarkets that sell ‘my magical horse simulator’ or some dodgy train management clone for 4.99.
bugger me, they should quit now.

By: dingo

dingo — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:59:41 +0000

I just checked the German website of the team and they mean “Jugendfrei” which means “E” (Everyone) if you use the ESRP equivalent as rating.

By: Eli

Eli — Fri, 15 May 2009 05:10:44 +0000

I for one prefer the mysteriously cropped screen-shot.

@Michael Rose: Yes, these things have saddened me as well. I think we could all use a bit of crazy in some tracks now and then.

By: Michael Rose

Michael Rose — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:20:29 +0000

I still have both Be Your Own Pet albums on my mp3 player and listen to them frequently. The death of both their… ‘alternative rock’ plus Test Icicles a couple of years back saddened me deeply.

I mean, need crazy in my guitar music.

By: noom

noom — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:13:03 +0000

Gah. Thankyou for reminding me of my massive crush on Jemina Pearl Abegg. Now I am sad.

*edit*
@Wulf

Much as I really don’t want to be involved in kicking off some interwebs argument, this idea that using gay as a pejorative term is offensive to gay people is infuriatingly short-sighted. Choosing to ignore the difference between a slant on gayness, and an ironic slant on homophobia, is in my experience usually just self-serving and self-righteous, or on rarer occasions just genuinely stupid.

I, for one, am going to continue calling things gay, as well as making frequent racial slurs, referring to children as c***s, and insinuating that women are inferior to men. I think perhaps you just don’t understand British humour…

(though it has just occurred to me that you may be joking too… >_> )

By: LionsPhil

LionsPhil — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:35:19 +0000

Did I just fall through a time vortex into the ’90s?

Because, if so, I need to go buy a few million copies of everything Looking Glass have released. Just checking.

By: Wulf

Wulf — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:03:33 +0000

@Bhazor: Derogatory gay jokes, how could you?

Now from what I’ve observed, Britain has become forward thinking enough to leave that behind. I haven’t heard someone make a genuine gay sleight in years. Maybe it’s just Wales, I don’t know, but I’d like to think that the whole of Britain is fair-thinking towards minorities.

Now this presents me with two thoughts: You’ve either been dropped on your head too many times as a baby, and you haven’t caught up with everyone else yet, or you’re from some place else, apparently a place that’s apparently far less open-minded and fair than what I’m used to.

That’s the kind of thing that really drags the public appearance of a place down too, what’re you trying to do, make RPS look like XBox Live? As I said, how could you? Poorly played indeed.

By: Smee

Smee — Thu, 14 May 2009 20:17:32 +0000

Well, at least they get points for using the guitar riff from Karoshi Suicide Saleryman: http://www.venbrux.com/

By: JonFitt

JonFitt — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:52:29 +0000

He's right you know. Also, I can't hear "driving me nuts" without thinking of the pirate joke.

By: Sparvy

Sparvy — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:38:09 +0000

Sorry but this drives me nuts, its called cel-shading. One L, thats all, not two, it has absolutely nothing to do with cells.

Ah well, can’t really say that video impressed me anyway, time will tell I suppose.

By: El Stevo

El Stevo — Thu, 14 May 2009 18:51:40 +0000

That looks absolutely awful.

By: Bhazor

Bhazor — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:41:07 +0000

Isn’t that the music from Karoshi 2?
Not too impressive debut trailer but I’ll wait to see some sample puzzles before I dismiss like it was a gay game by gays for gays.