Will's Blog

Published by  Boss Fight Books , 2020  Ebook Cost: $4.95, Paperback Cost: $14.95,  Paperback + Ebook Bundle: $17.95  Originally published on  8/19/20 at willwritesablog.tumblr.com This necessarily won’t be a comprehensive review of Matt Margini’s latest book,  Red Dead Redemption,  but rather an overview of my experience in reading it and descriptions of some parts that especially stood out to me (and why.) At the beginning of the book, Margini makes a humble disclaimer that apart from two brief trips, he himself has not been to the west. He corrects the notion that this would immediately disqualify him from writing this book afterword by opening into his central idea; the book is about Easterners’ perceptions on the West, and is specifically about a videogame that brings these differences into the limelight,  Red Dead Redemption  by Rockstar Games. I give all this exposition because I have never played Red Dead Redemption (or its sequel), I ...

Spelunky HD: Released August 8th, 2013  Cost: $14.99, Disc Space Size: 200 MB  Spelunky World Website ,  Steam Page     Review  Originally published 8/17/20 7:34 PM CST on willwritesablog.tumblr.com   I’m aware that I’m drafting this from a sense of entitlement, having never designed any games or anything creative myself as of the time of writing this. For full disclosure, I’m also in the process on reading this game’s autobiography (Derek Yu’s  Spelunky  from Boss Fight Books ) and I have also yet to beat the final secret-level boss. Although I did come the closest towards doing so earlier today. Take note of that Total Deaths count and the session play time (31 minutes, and 3273 total deaths at time of screenshot. We’ll come back to this later.) All that said, I’ll likely revisit the subject in the future once more. With all that out of the way: At least by today’s standards,  Spelunky  is not a great game. I would hesitate to cal...

Released: 2004-2005. Studio: Gonzo  Episode Count: 24 ( AL , A-P , KIT , MAL )  Impressions/Miniature Review  Originally published on 8/17/20 at  https://willwritesablog.tumblr.com/   As a form of self-motivation to write more, I intend to use this Tumblr to write thought-pieces on various types of media that I encounter. Some of these beginning posts will be written in one-shot, over ideas that have been floating around in my head for some time, so bear with me! During the Coronavirus lockdown I’ve binge-watched several shows, so I may write about those over time. Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo  (the English dubbed version) is an anime series that I watched a couple of weeks ago and found highly enjoyable. I would label it as one of the few Japanese-animated productions that I would feel comfortable watching in a living room with, if that makes sense. Typically an anime will have some kind of disqualifier in it to make it an awkward viewing experien...