I feel like I've actually got quite a lot on my plate right now. I have almost three months of MIDI Week Singles queued up, although six of those articles are related to a Game EXP dump I'm in the process of writing/finishing. Not really a "dump" per se, more like two short articles covering three games a piece, and since they've all had great music, I thought it would be a perfect excuse to feature some of that music too. I also have several articles in various stages of being unwritten for cultural bangers like Horses, Mashina, and The Exit 8. As I look at my list, I also realized I never wrote my article about Resident Evil 6, which wasn't as bad as I was expecting it to be, just the evolution of where the game was going since Resident Evil 4, along with the expansiveness of Resident Evil Revelations in the story they wanted to tell and how they wanted to tell it. But we'll leave that for the inevitable article.
And then I seem to have found myself playing multiple games again. I'm about 38 hours into Divine Divinity, just over five hours into Outer Wilds, 2.5 hours into Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, and I even started playing Dustforce a little while ago, but I don't know if I'll complete that game, as there seems to be a three-star equivalent mechanic that was prevalent in every other game to come out between 2008 and 2015. I don't really have it in me to complete that game, or games like it, right now. And I started another new character in Neverwinter Nights when I remembered that I had the Diamond Edition over on GOG. But again, I've got that queue nipping at my heels.
We can't really talk about what happened in March without mentioning the Firefly animated series announcement. A lot of the articles I've read as a reaction to this announcement laud the fact that they're going back to the time between the end of the TV series and the beginning of the movie, and from what I understood, this was supposed to be Seasons Two and Three of the show. I get it, though, if you do a prequel to the movie, you get to have Wash and Book back, and if you're going to pitch an animated reboot of a show to a fanbase that loves the buhjeezus out of its crew, you might as well jump to a time when that crew was all still alive. There's still plenty of show there with the development of Book's character and his leaving, as well as Inara. Plus, the crew needs to have some bad stuff happen to put them in the bad place they're in at the start of the movie, and there're plenty of stories to tell to get them there. Out of all of the possible announcements about a return to that hill'verse, I feel that this is one of the better routes they could take.
Movie-wise, there were quite a few trailers released in the last week:
And then there are movies that were released or are releasing within the next week:
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
- Exit 8
- Technically, this was released last year, but our favorite theater near us is getting it this weekend, so...
- And speaking of last January, Iron Lung, based on the game from the same name by David Szymanski (Fingerbones, The Grandfather), was released.
Now is the era of small indie horror games, all typically selling for fewer than $10 USD, to get arthouse film adaptations. And Super Mario Bros too, I guess.
~JWfW/JDub/The Faceplantman/Jaconian
And There's No Need I Know
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