So I joined the 1UpFM backlog segment by playing Psychonauts.  Totally cool little platformer. 

This month, the game of choice is Indigo Prophecy.  Totally trying too hard to do the video-game movie mix.  There are parts I totally dig, bug the QTEs are occasionally extremely annoying. 

One high point aside from the story-telling (so far) is watching my wife give me the People's Eyebrow when she walks in to find me playing a weight-lifting mini-game that involves mashing two buttons alternately. 

I'll finish the game because I want to see how the story plays out, but I fear I will be more than sick of their QTEs.  I'd rather they keep the basic plot and limit the "gameplay" to more traditional adventure game roots.  But then I suppose the game would have been "too simplistic" and never been published.  

Also, as a result, I find myself quite undecided as to what to think of the upcoming Heavy Rain.  It will be interesting to read reviews to see if the game 'play' elements are tweaked to feel more natural/less infuriating.