Recent content by Sanmei

Western developer? Vatra is based in Brno, of the Czech Republic. Guess that's still "west" to Australia, but...

There's an element of YMMV to anything. The only item in the review I can truly sympathize with was the wooden, inhuman support character, who only shows a glimmer of character growth at the very end of the game and for whom this growth is as out of character as being expected to have grown fond...

Tony Jay WAS awesome. Simon Templeman is another name worth mentioning, as well as Michael Bell. The Legacy of Kain games worked for their amazing voice cast.

Hell yes to Michael Bell and Simon Templeman, and I'll raise you one and add Tony Jay to that list, rest his soul. Wait. No! No rest for Tony. Can you imagine braineating zombies with his voice?

These days, if you can write a character who undergoes even a slight amount of growth throughout the duration of a story, and have that character possess even a minimum backstory (taking place prior to the story, chronologically), then you've already made leaps and bounds over the writing of...

I wasn't aware Disney owned the copyright on flora and fauna. Better not include those in any future games, video game developers! Nature is now a trademark of Walt Disney Studios! Incidentally, that garden is on top of the shrine and you can ascend to it if you have either mad skills or a...

Can anyone who has watched more than one Zero Punctuation episode honestly be surprised if Yahtzee bashes something he doesn't like?

Slenn: If you consider watching someone else play a game to be nearly equivalent to playing it yourself, then I think congratulations are in order for the gaming industry for successfully ruining games forever with excessive cutscreen usuage. O.o As for your question, frankly, I'm struggling...

Arcane Azmadi: I actually went out and hunted down a copy of Ico shortly after finishing Shadow of the Colossus and I've been having difficulty finishing it, mostly because it has a knack of either killing my interest in continuing by a cheap shot I didn't see coming ("Oh, I can't climb on that...

Dunno, the one time I saw him comment on it, it was in the context of "Silicon Knights doesn't want to do a sequel to it out of a crippling fear of money and success." Then again, Yahtzee does acknowledge on many occasions that some games are ridiculously successful for no good reason. *Loved...

Heck, I'm just happy to see Shadow of the Colossus getting an approving review that doesn't degenerate into "OMFG IS TEH MUST AWSUM THING EBER111". That was my biggest problem when I was trying to decide whether or not it was worth pursuing -- the reviews were extremely polarized between "OMFG...