A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: Video Games
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Enslaved: Odyssey To The West becomes the second game to fall from The Mantelpiece – at this blistering rate I might even get to the end of my ‘List of Shame’ by Christmas! (Christmas 2015 that is.) Still, if all of the games on the list are as fun as this one, it’s going to…
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At only 27 years of age I already hate teenagers. I really can’t help it – they wear stupid shoes, stupid hats, stupid pants and have stupid hair. Worst of all they speak entirely in vowels and the word ‘like’ features far too prominently in their conversations. Perhaps not an apt analogy for how I…
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Assassin’s Creed II has the honour of being the first game to be knocked off The Mantelpiece and into the velvet-lined, taffeter-embroidered bin labelled ‘Games That I’ve Completed This Year’. A rather nasty head cold earlier this month meant I was rendered incapacitated and unable to work for two days, but these rather phlegmy days…
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“In Which The Concept Of The Manor Is Explained and we indulge our creativity. Just go with it” As you approach the imposing red brick facade of The Manor, the front door glides effortlessly open to reveal the gaunt, hunched figure of Snodgrass the Self-Reflexive Butler. He peers at you myopically over his enormous beak…
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 