What a weired couple of weeks for gaming.

I wrote a user review for Braid immediately after finishing it. I've read some absolutely fantastic forum posts regarding what the whole game is about.

The second episodic series from Telltale was released finally today. Homestar Runner might not be perfect adventure game material, but you can clearly see within the first moments of playing that TellTale understands wholeheartedly how episodic games are made. After doing such a fine run with the revitalization of Sam and Max, the immediate solid and focused game design in this first episode is far more apparent in comparison, to say, the first episode of Sam and Max.

Bionic Commando Rearmed comes out in a couple days. In preparation I booted up the original Bionic Commando and quickly realized a simple truth that I've been coming to terms with as I grow older: The games of my childhood were bitching hard. I wonder if Rearmed will retain the games original level of difficulty, how they will deal with bringing perhaps new gamers into the Bionic universe.

And then for the rest of this month... Pretty much nothing. Too Human will be released, I'm still not sold on it. I actually still have an old PSM magazine which covered the game back when it was in development for the original Playstation. Pretty crazy. I realized that the last Silicon Knights game I played was the 1996 release of the first Legacy of Kain game: Blood Omen. I didn't get around playing Eternal Darkness for gamecube, it will be interesting to finally see the finished product of this game.

I'm not a huge fan of the Tales series, but Vespiria looks phenomenal. I really enjoyed Eternal Sonata's fantastic art style but loathed it's convoluted mess that they considered a plot. I have pretty high hopes for this game too.

But I'm probably only going to purchase one of the two. Then there's all that Infinite Undiscovery/Last Remnant stuff which is completely off my radar. The next few weeks are going to be interesting indeed.