Wake Up

Mephisto Mori/ September 15, 2012/ Video Games/ 2 comments

Alan Wake is one of my favorite games this generation.  I recognize that the game resonates on a personal level for me but you need not share that connection to enjoy it.  Granted it doesn’t have the mass appeal of Call of Duty or, I don’t know, Peggle, but this games isn’t a completely niche phenomenon.   Its status as simply a “cult success” seems

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Hey, Afro!

Mephisto Mori/ September 10, 2012/ Video Games/ 0 comments

It’s, by now, no mystery that I enjoy Beat ’em Ups as a genre.  From the NES Ninja Gaidens to Streets of Rage, I’ve long loved smashing the faces of differently colored street punks and robot ninjas.  It’s an art form really.  To that end, Afro Samurai the video game exists (for 360 and PS3).  The violence is downright artistic. 

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