Quick post on a Sunday night
Sep. 10th, 2006 11:17 pmLast night I dreamed King Crimson's ability wasn't to erase the future, it was to undo the past ten seconds. Each time he'd remember what had happened, but no one else would; there wasn't any limit to the number of times the timeline could be reset, so theoretically he could read the entire works of Shakespeare in an instant if he was holding the book in his hands and learned to turn the pages really fast (but it's a pain, so he doesn't bother). What he really wants is to become a secret martial arts master overnight, but since most of martial arts is body-memory and stamina and his body always reverts back to the way it was before the reset, he can't. (Technically, his memory should revert as well, but for the sake of argument we will pretend that memory is both the physical result of neural pathways carved into the brain ala Bruno in part 5, and an aspect of the soul ala Whitesnake's memory disks in part 6.)
This power would also activate automatically when he died, as long as the will to live was still there. That meant he was literally unbeatable, unless you put him in a vegetative state, -- but no one knew to do this, because no one knew he was resetting time. The major difference between this and the real King Crimson, though, was that this one was totally careless (why not?) and let himself get drawn into a situation he couldn't overcome no matter how many times he reset time. After a couple days of constant pain, he gave up and died (our heroes, meanwhile, remained totally clueless).
I know exactly why I had this dream. It's because Yin and I beat Jak III over the weekend. ^^; If you take out all the time we spent dying and re-doing levels, I think this game would only be five or six hours long. It is totally my kind of game though. Unlimited lives, plentiful reset points, who cares if the camera is a little cheap sometimes? I hate having to be careful, I hate having to figure out where to go next, I hate retracing my steps. This game was made for me. It feels sooooo good to finally beat that machine-gun-turret level, after you've memorized where all of the enemies are like a MASTER GAMER. XD. The best part of this game is how completely derivative it is. I haven't played an action-adventure title in years, and I still found myself fondly reminiscing about that vehicle-combat game...skateboard game...survival-horror...arcade...first-person shooter...platformer...all of them stuff I'd seen done before, and better, but where else could I find them all in the same game?! Yes, exactly.
Plot's kind of like that too. Dangerous ancient technology, sinister evil planet, warring rebel factions, lawless desert bandits, men who become machines, men who fantically want to clense evil, etc whatever, man. XD
Hmmmmm, what else. Went out with an old boyfriend today, saw Idlewild. One of those movies where you really have to be a fan of the genre, but it's AWESOME if you are. All the best parts of prohibition-era movies! Great costuming, iconic characters, some interesting camera work, very colorful. The music could have been better. Andre/Percival's romantic sideplot was UM not full of chemistry, but it was believeable in the context of the movie (he's the son of a mortician, kind of weird and withdrawn). Big Boi/Rooster was great. It was a little bit like watching a series of music videoes that all happened to string together into a plot, though. XD
Read what's available of Jojo Part 6 and Steel Ball Run, more on that tomorrow
This power would also activate automatically when he died, as long as the will to live was still there. That meant he was literally unbeatable, unless you put him in a vegetative state, -- but no one knew to do this, because no one knew he was resetting time. The major difference between this and the real King Crimson, though, was that this one was totally careless (why not?) and let himself get drawn into a situation he couldn't overcome no matter how many times he reset time. After a couple days of constant pain, he gave up and died (our heroes, meanwhile, remained totally clueless).
I know exactly why I had this dream. It's because Yin and I beat Jak III over the weekend. ^^; If you take out all the time we spent dying and re-doing levels, I think this game would only be five or six hours long. It is totally my kind of game though. Unlimited lives, plentiful reset points, who cares if the camera is a little cheap sometimes? I hate having to be careful, I hate having to figure out where to go next, I hate retracing my steps. This game was made for me. It feels sooooo good to finally beat that machine-gun-turret level, after you've memorized where all of the enemies are like a MASTER GAMER. XD. The best part of this game is how completely derivative it is. I haven't played an action-adventure title in years, and I still found myself fondly reminiscing about that vehicle-combat game...skateboard game...survival-horror...arcade...first-person shooter...platformer...all of them stuff I'd seen done before, and better, but where else could I find them all in the same game?! Yes, exactly.
Plot's kind of like that too. Dangerous ancient technology, sinister evil planet, warring rebel factions, lawless desert bandits, men who become machines, men who fantically want to clense evil, etc whatever, man. XD
Hmmmmm, what else. Went out with an old boyfriend today, saw Idlewild. One of those movies where you really have to be a fan of the genre, but it's AWESOME if you are. All the best parts of prohibition-era movies! Great costuming, iconic characters, some interesting camera work, very colorful. The music could have been better. Andre/Percival's romantic sideplot was UM not full of chemistry, but it was believeable in the context of the movie (he's the son of a mortician, kind of weird and withdrawn). Big Boi/Rooster was great. It was a little bit like watching a series of music videoes that all happened to string together into a plot, though. XD
Read what's available of Jojo Part 6 and Steel Ball Run, more on that tomorrow
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