Rebecca Mayes Muses: Wet

[snotvomit]

Great song as always. Love your stuff.

I disagree somewhat with cobaltfram - I think that the technical components of your review are important. Your songs entertain, but as game reviews they should also inform. Since they're songs about games, I think that there should be information about how the game looks/plays.

The balance between review/song seems spot-on to me the way it is now. I think it would be a shame to lose the technical stuff altogether because it's part of what makes your work so cool (at least for me).

 

[deepshock]

Heh, this is a new high. Keep up the great videos!

 

[Trivun]

Haven't posted in a while about your videos, but this one was pretty damn great . It's good to see you doing new styles and different music each time now, your earlier videos were all pretty similar sound-wise (not that I'm complaining, I'm a Scouting for Girls fan after all), but later ones have changed and mixed it up each time which is great. Nice to see the people who didn't like you much before are now being turned over time, too.

As I say, great video, and keep up the good work

 

[Gyrefalcon]

Very well done. I agree that maybe the rhythms could have been shaken up a bit here and there, but I really liked how the lyrics all built to very sweet, sad question; you're growing out of being a simple reviewer and are instead using your songs to explore personal issues within games, which sounds very silly, but you pull it off.

My only advice would be to drop all the technical aspects of a game reviewing ("Damn wonky camera") which almost always feel tacked-on or unnecessary, and focus entirely on the deeper themes you explore so well ("I won't find it here.") or Madworld's questioning of violence in games.

Still, very nice song, and I think that every video you improve. And an album, or at least a place to purchase individual MP3s would be lovely .

Ah, but I'd advise the opposite. It's exactly those kinds of touches that reinforce that it is a song about games for gamers. Wonky camera may be hard to work into a song, but it emphasizes the nature of the beast for me. Loved it and it seemed very spot-on!

 

[AvsJoe]

Yet another nail in the already nailed-shut coffin that contains Wet. Wow. I had no want to play this game when I first heard of it but this site is really picking on the game like it's the fat nerd in dodgeball. Yikes, I'm starting to feel sorry for Wet and its creators.

 

[Uszi]

I like this song.It had sort of a Country + African tribal music feel.

I just started matching this segment...

It's all very weird...
And strangely entertaining.

 

[Rational-Delirium]

Nice! Well worth the wait. Somebody ALWAYS says on every video that it's their new favourite, but I'll have to suck it up and say it: This is my new favourite.

So there.

 

[Woem]

Nice! Well worth the wait. Somebody ALWAYS says on every video that it's their new favourite, but I'll have to suck it up and say it: This is my new favourite.

So there.

That only means she keeps getting better, and I agree. Though I might be a bit biased [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Rebecca-Mayes-Fans]

 

[SmugFrog]

I like the song - it gets stuck in my head.

 

[Mattteus]

I love the look she makes when the controller falls

 

[BlackAura]

This is my new favorite song of yours, Rebecca. Great job! :O)

 

[MarsProbe]

By the way: what did you say during the credits when your mate was down? It sounded pretty hilarious!

I thought it sounded like "Raaage" but it wasn't that easy to make out. Either the croaky voice was put on intentionally, or Rebecca has a frog in her throat! :O

 

[Joa_Belgium]

Well, she obviously put on that voice intentionally, but I'm just wondering what she's saying ... curious little me.

 

[Midniqht]

Although I agree with the points in the song, I still enjoyed the game. It was worth a rent for me.
As always with the songs though, I can't get past how the lyrics never seem to flow together...

 

[BlueInkAlchemist]

Lovely song, excellent video, great humor.

Great. I'm now addicted to yet another Escapist video series.

 

[Slash Dementia]

Great song--this is my favorite Escapist series.
I only played the demo for Wet and I thought it was pretty okay. I didn't expect much story from it since it looked like mindless shooting and slicing.

 

[Vierran]

I really do enjoy Rebecca's voice and this song pretty much sums up Wet for what it is, Style over Substance.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Hats are serious business people.

Loving the alt country feel of this one. Not that I know anything about the game, but the song rocked, country rocked.

 

[Elf Defiler Korgan]

I liked it. Quirky and a nice song with a partial review in it.

 

[JWAN]

left me dazed and confused.

But from what I could follow, its pretty much how I felt about the game. Only Im a guy, therefore having my attention grabbed by the title probably a little more than a girl.