Shipwreck Review
I recently stumbled upon a really good video game trailer:
The above video, then, is a launch trailer for Brushfire Games’ new indie game Shipwreck. It is as WYSIWYG as you get! In buying this new game, you get the following:
Neat and tidy pixel graphics
Atmospheric console-style ‘retro’ music
Well-balanced, honed gameplay
Fun mechanics and a good difficulty curve
Zelda! …
By Martyn Zachary
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Posted in Featured, Indie, Reviews
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Also tagged Anodyne, Bushfire Games, Gameboy Color, Humble Store, Jeremy Parish, Nintendo, Postmodernity, Shipwreck, Steam Greenlight
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In his PopMatters article “Fearing God, Fearing the Body: The Theology of ‘The Binding of Isaac’”, G. Christopher Williams discusses various aspects of Edmund McMillen and Florian Himsl’s ingenious (and mildly blasphemous) Zelda/Roguelike hybrid, The Binding of Isaac. Although his reading of the game astutely homes in on the “meatier” parts of Isaac - that …
By Martyn Zachary
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Posted in Featured, Side by Side
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Also tagged Abjection, Edmund McMillen, Florian Himsl, G. Christopher Williams, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, PopMatters, Roguelike, Søren Kierkegaard, Super Meat Boy, Team Meat, The Binding of Isaac, The Grotesque, The Uncanny
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