Well look at that! I missed yesterday's post. I gotta get on top of things.
At least this time it was because I was working... instead of watching half a dozen episodes of X-Men. I love X-Men.
Work is almost done. I'm so ready to be done with Overlord II. The game is such a mixed bag.
Which reminds me, I think I'm gonna start a new section on my site for "media responses." I call them responses because I don't really want to review games, movies, music, whatever in the usual way.
You know, trying to break down and rate various aspects of a work on some loose grounds of objectivity and so on. Reviews have a place (they'd better since my job is to assist in review writing), but that's not what I wanna do this time around.
Instead, I'm gonna write about what I walked away from a given piece of media thinking and feeling. Thus, it'll be more of a sharing my experience.
Truth be told, taking games for example, I'm more interested in how enjoyable, fun, or intellectually/emotionally stimulating it is. Things like "it does new things" and "the graphics are mindblowing" really don't mean much to me in their own rights if the game isn't at its core enjoyable.
I think that's why art critics and I have a hard time talking about media and art. There's a fundamental difference in what perspective.
But I digress. Look forward to my first media response to Overlord II by week's end.
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