Day 5 in a daily blog about a gaming journalist.

 So I was playing Fairytale Fights yesterday, and it was an alright game, albeit a little repetitive, until I got to Chapter 6: The most annoying and stupid level ever. In terms of the actual level itself, it's fairly straightfoward, with my epic gripe with it being that they just repeat the assets. For example, there's this massive cat that swipes at the floor and you have to get through at the right time. Pretty simple platforming item, but here's the problem PlayLogic: IF YOU KEEP PUTTING MILLIONS OF THOSE CATS IN THE LEVEL IT GETS REPETITIVE. For a game praised with having "amazing creativity" they really use the same stuff a lot. 
 
Now I normally don't rage at games, and I might've been able to keep going with the game even with that utter piece of laziness, but when you get to the boss is where it really pisses you off. I'm not going to explain it as it's fairly complex and I don't want to spoil the game for those that actually want to play this game, but let's just put it like this: In a normal platforming game, if say the floor you're standing on is going to fall, or a platform is going to close and another one your going to jump on is going to open, you get what we call a "visual cue", in other words something flashes or moves to subconsciously tell you  "Move your goddamn ass before you fall to your doom". In Fairytale Fights in this particular boss, you get no visual cue, which means you have to literally guess or memorize a certain pattern to move up or on in the level. In other words: You die a lot. 
 
Moving on from that rant and other news in my land of videogame journalism, Sony's let us know that we will be receiving their upcoming games in the form of review copies for the PS3

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A while ago, Bethesda sent Interplay to court to stop them from selling the original Fallout trilogy and to stop them from producing a Fallout MMO. How did it all work out? Find out in this article.

Bethesda sent Interplay to court asking that it stops marketing and selling the original Fallout trilogy and to hand over the developing rights and any work done so far on the upcoming MMO spin-off of the Fallout franchise, working title’d Project V13.

Today, court documents reveal that the judge has ruled in the favour of Interplay, allowing them permission to continue developing Project V13, and to continue publishing the original Fallout trilogy, seperately and as a trilogy-pack.

There is no word if  Bethesda will appeal against the decision or not. We at GamesPoint will keep you up-to-date if anything happens.

So what do you think? Comment on it, duders.

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Today I was put on 2K Games' distribution list (W00T for Bioshock 2! ) and received a copy of Fairytale Fights for the PS3 for lulz as well. Going to start playing that. When I looked through the manual I was surprised at the pages filled up with weapons, from blunt to sharp and everything in between! 
 
Tomorrow (today really, but it's 6:20AM and I've not gone to sleep yet), it'll be time to actually start playing through Fairytale Fights and sometime next week to write the review of it (assuming I can finish it or get somewhat through it so I know what the basic premise of the game is). It looks fun, even though I'm not too much of a fun of hack-'n'-slash games, the platforming aspect of the game looks fun. 
 
Also got my hands on The Saboteur, Dragon Age: ORIGINS, and Borderlands (PC) from the good ole' friends at Gamer's Gate. What sucks is that our review sites down (stupid host, can't wait to move to GoDaddy). It's been down for over a day now and it's really peeing me off. HURRY UP AND BRING IT BACK UP!! 
 
Anyway, lets leave the ranting for another day. Cheers.