Review: To the Moon

Well, friends, it's time to dust off this journal again.  My major creative projects of the last few months are pretty much finished and as per tradition I'm now plagued with a terrible head cold.  Since I was quarantined and feeling sorry for my poor body, I decided to splurge and buy a new game from Steam to while away the sickly hours.  I ended up settling on "To The Moon", an indie game from Free Bird Games that if nothing else looked intriguing enough for $10.

I'll just say it now:  you have to play this game.

Yesterday

Wow, it's....been quite a while.  I got really busy with theatre shows and writing that I almost forgot about my very nerdy blog.  Well, that and I've almost had no time for gaming, much less finding time for obscure adventure games.  Recently though Pendulo Studios, the creators of Runaway (which I haven't played yet), released a brand new original adventure game Yesterday.

Puzzle Agent 2

There are those big, epic adventure games that try carefully to integrate their puzzles into the storyline so that they don't really seem like puzzles at all. And then there's Puzzle Agent 2, a game that pretty much makes no secret that it's there solely for the puzzles and only the puzzles.  And luckily it's pretty damn entertaining.

Jurassic Park the Game

Another video review!  Woo hoooo!

Video Review: The Last Express

While I do love to update this blog with written entries, I'm branching out a bit with my videos and have started to talk about adventure games with my friend Errol.  And our first review is of one of my favourite games of all time: the Last Express!  It's less a review and more a retrospective, but it was tons of fun to do.  Enjoy!

Whitless Letters to- Zelda

It's my  most topical letter yet!  Yes, technically I've already covered the Zelda universe, but this one was dying to be talked about:

Dracula: Origins

Things have been pretty busy on my end but I'm back and eager to talk about games again!  And I'm actually starting off with a game that I'm honestly a little torn about:  Dracula Origin.  I've actually started to write a post about it four times now, each time stopping about midway and deleting it altogether.  

Whitless Letter to L4D Team

So this is more an apology to everyone forced to play zombie games with me.  Because I actually love this game.  But just because I love it doesn't mean I'm any good. Special thanks to Dan the video Ninja, Doctor Holocaust, Lyf Stolte for their fun footage and the various others who play with me. Enjoy!

Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper

Steam was having some Halloween sales and so I ended up picking up a couple of games for $5, adventure games that I would normally pass over but hey, for $5 why not try them out?  The first one I bought for the title alone:  Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper.  That's right.  I was actually expecting to pull this game apart, but surprisingly, it's an extremely enjoyable adventure and a well done game overall.

Whitless Letters to- Sonic

Life has been insane with my show, and I mean to update this blog soon as there have been a couple of games I've been partaking in.  But in the meantime, enjoy the new Whitless letter :)

Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Well, I’ve talked about the Longest Journey, it only makes sense that I talk about its sequel, Dreamfall.  In the adventure community, this had to be one of the most highly anticipated games of recent memory.  It took seven years to complete due to some development hell and the longer the fans waited the more their expectations grew.  Unfortunately, as with all over-hyped games, those expectations were not met and the game did not do nearly as well as it was expected to.  However that doesn’t mean it was a bad game.

A new video!

Tifa is awesome.  Why won't she realize that?

Dark Fall 3: Lost Souls

Well, my favourite time is almost upon us: HALLOWEEN!  And what better way to celebrate than to play the oh so spooky Dark Fall 3: Lost Souls.  And it's scary.  Very scary.  So scary that I can't play it by myself.  Okay, that goes for pretty much all scary games but this has to be one of the worst for sending me into fits of hyperventilation.

The Longest Journey

It’s time to go old school again!  And this time I’ll be visiting one of my all time favourites, The Longest Journey.  If you’ve been following this blog, you probably know that my love for TLJ knows no bounds.  It’s made every Top 5 list and it’s mentioned at least once in almost every post.  So I finally indulged my nostalgia craving and re-installed it on my computer to see how well it holds up today as a game.  And the answer is:  still pretty damn well.

More Video Times!

Well, it wouldn't be my blog if I didn't shamelessly push my little video projects on people.  Here's the latest!  My letter to the straight block from Tetris.  Enjoy, share, like, comment, every little bit helps!

King's Quest III Redux

This blog is being typed in my new digs!  Hello internet world!  I missed you!  And what better way to celebrate my newly returned internet and always impoverished state than to download a free King's Quest remake from AGD interactive?

Letter to Link

Well, since I've posted it everywhere else, it's time to post it here.

Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

Well folks, my apartment is filled with boxes and I’ve been going through all my old stuff preparing for my move, so it’s time to go nostalgic again!  Today I’ll be talking about a little known game called “Titanic: Adventure Out of Time”, one that I had a blast playing as a kid and still holds up pretty well today as a graphic adventure game.

A Letter to Bowser

As a sort of project to get myself in front of a camera more (hot damn they make me freeze up) and to cement my nerdiness straight to the core of the earth, I've created a sort of vlog series in which I write letters to video game characters.  Observe:

Special thanks to Dan Charrington for helping it happen.  Hopefully there will be more to come after this!

Top 6 Adventure Game Heroes

In case I haven't made it abundantly clear, I love villains.  They always seem to be the more interesting characters in movies, books, games, you name it.  But they wouldn't be much without a hero to challenge them.  The hero characters of the gaming world are a difficult bunch to write for.  Unlike movies, you'll be following game characters around from anywhere between seven and sixty hours.  If they're too dull, the game becomes dull.  If they're too emo, you'll turn the volume off just to escape their whining.

Every once in a while, a protagonist comes along that is not only interesting but sometimes even more delightful than the villain and it's important to give props to them.  These are my personal favourite heroes of adventure gaming.  And since we're talking about characters you play as, this will be the first Top 6 list without a Myst title!  Woah! (although I am my most favourite hero)  Warning: some spoilers will follow.