Nintendo Hyper 8-bit... Tori Amos?

When you have diverse tastes, it not often that someone puts your favourite things together. Not even on the internet, where entire blogs are dedicated to chronicling video game toilets.

So you can understand why I had to have a little alone time when I discovered this incredible chiptune cover of the whole of Tori Amos' apocalyptic baroque dance* album From The Choirgirl Hotel by Daryl Banner.

I've said before that the Donkey Kong Land games have some of my favourite soundtracks because the brilliance of the compositions means they're not only listenable in 8-bit but also listenable the 10,000th time you hear them, which all people who have played Donkey Kong will know because those games were so hard.

Goodbye Roger Ebert.

Here is my review of Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory. Like its name, the game is is rambling and incoherent, if colourful.

Is that smutty or just incoherent?

It also reinforced my dislike of having to summarise a 2,000 review with a mark out of ten. I gave it a six which, due to video game review score inflation, is effectively total damnation, but I would actually recommend it to "people who like that sort of thing".

Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 5 - Exploring the Slums

Part 4

Hello, and welcome back to the Final Fantasy VII playthrough. Just so you have a sense of scale, I'm now two hours into the game after playing it for five months. This is a 100-hour game, which means that at this pace, I won't be finished for another twenty years.

Because there's nothing I'd rather do with the next two decades than wander around a pretend slum, let's get down to it.

Cloud talks to some locals.

THAT'S MEN FOR YOU AMIRITE LADIES?

Clementine and existential angst.

The Tomb Raider article wasn't the only thing I've written for GodisaGeek recently. Back in February (gosh, February) I wrote another Character Select piece, this one on little Clementine from The Walking Dead.

Clementine. Devastating.

The Walking Dead is probably the most upsetting game I have ever played, which you can probably tell by reading that piece. I'm pretty sure I didn't update Well-Rendered with it earlier because I found it so unpleasant to write. Honestly, I haven't even re-read it since I submitted it to the GodisaGeek editors, I can't even remember if it's any good.

Fun times.

Tomb Raider: The Verdict

Tomb Raider is out! Before I launch into what I thought of it, I suggest you read my latest Character Select, which is about the new Lara Croft. I have now written nine Character Select articles, two of which have been about Lara Croft. Make of that what you will. That article represents a fairly detached view of the new game, in which I look at the cultural and commercial reasons why Lara Croft was transformed from this:

 ...into this...