To switch to a completely different kind of game from yesterday’s Football Manager review, last night I finished South Park: The Stick of Truth. It’s another game that actually came out this year, so I am currently managing to stay very modern with my gaming choices. The game took quite a long time to come out, with its release date being delayed several times and its European release seeing some parts cut, due to their graphic nature. Of course, Trey Parker and Matt Stone responded to this in typical fashion, by instead inserting screens that apologised for the censorship, but go onto describe the scene anyway.
Football Manager 2015
I’ve written in the past about my love of Football Manager, so unsurprisingly it didn’t take long for me to pick up the newest version when it was released last Friday. Now there is no denying FM is a hard game to review. Something the size of Football Manager can’t be fully explored, without putting many an hour into it, so to reference Total Biscuit, lets say this is more of a first impressions piece, than an actual review. In saying all that, according to Steam I have already put 27 hours into the game. Now I am always very skeptical of Steam’s internal clock, but I spent most of the weekend playing it and I’m into my second season on my ‘testing out the game’ Chelsea save.
Interstellar
In this review I am going to attempt to spoil as little as possible about Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, I’ve considered the ways to do this and in all honesty I think the simplest way is to avoid details of the plot entirely. I like to think I can still give an opinion on it without ever describing it in detail. Why? Because there are some films that it is better to go into without any knowledge at all and because Nolan himself is well known to like it that way and who am I to argue.
Live Review: As I Was Hunted w/ A Modern Masquerade, Being Octavius and Portalooth and The Musketeers
So on Friday I nipped down to Caberet Voltaire in Edinburgh on a whim, to check out a few local bands. I came into this gig with exactly zero knowledge of any of these bands, except for the description on the Cab Vol website and came away very pleasantly surprised, as all four bands put on a great show. Not bad for a fiver.
LUFTRAUSERS
After a short break from talking about games, we are back with LUFTRAUSERS which actually came out this year, possibly making it the newest game I have talked about. It was a game I picked up in a Humble Bundle and decided to have a go at this week while waiting for the new Football Manager to drop (more on that later). LUFTRAUSERS is an update of a free Flash game and was developed by Vlambeer. It’s one of the many indie games that takes on a rather retro art style and it is also incredibly good fun.
Nightcrawler
Films that look at the modern state of the media are hardly rare in this day and age. With the UK having gone through phone tapping and the US having just as many problems themselves, the media is rife for a kicking, but few films have done so in the stylish, dark and twisted way that Nightcrawler does. It’s the directorial debut from Dan Gilroy, who also wrote the script, which suggests that he may well be a film maker to watch in the years to come.
A Look at Music Venues Via Ginger Wildheart
Sometimes I sit down to write a review and realise that there is probably not much point. Today was one of those days. On Sunday night I went to see Ginger Wildheart in Glasgow and had a rather fantastic night. However, me writing about how awesome Ginger is seems a bit pointless. If you wish to know my opinion on the man and his music you can find it here, here and here, as well as a few other places if you want to delve a bit deeper. I’m a huge Ginger fan and therefore repeating myself is now going to be that interesting. Of course it was awesome, he’s always awesome.
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The Babadook
Horror in 2014 is a strange genre. Modern films seem to fall into two categories. Every now and then you get something smart and interesting, for example the great You’re Next, which took traditional horror tropes and twisted them in a dark and amusing way. However, more often than not we are left by Paranormal Activity inspired cattle-prod cinema. Horror movies that rely mainly on the idea of being quiet for a while, before making the audience jump with a big bang. Into this fray now enters The Babadook, a movie written and directed by the possibly twisted mind of Jennifer Kent.
Playing the Blues
If you ask most people to describe what they consider the standard blues guitarist, they would probably go down the old, craggy man route. Someone who can damn well play, but is not exactly one of the hip young people the modern music world seem to have such an obsession with. However, if you dig below the surface, times are a changing and two albums I’ve checked out in the last week or so, are the perfect proof of that.
The Book of Life
It’s been a mixed year for animated films. On one hand we have had the brilliant Lego Movie and the wonderfully dirty Box Trolls. On the other hand, there has been a lot of crap. Films like The Postman Pat movie seemed to fail on nearly every level. The latest fighter to enter the fray is The Book of Life, a film, which at least on paper due to the involvement (as a producer) of Guillermo Del Toro, looks set to be a prize fighter.
Ramblings About Wrestling 