Apr 10, 6:05 pm
Fancy shmancy is out. It’s all about simplicity at the moment for me. I’ve been playing Theme Park on the DS and it’s not like it’s some new supped up version of Theme Park. It’s just plain decade old Theme Park but my God can I stop? I can’t put the damn thing down. The only games that have been able to distract me from it are Phoenix Wright 2, which isn’t exactly the most technically dazzling game and Puzzle Quest. Puzzle Quest is a Fantasy RPG where you play a sort of Bejewelled / Zoo Keeper type game with monsters and wizards and so forth to gain experience, spells and armour in order to play better at said Bejewelled type game. Oi, wake up! I’m talking here. I seem to be regressing in the complexity of games I like to play. It’s almost as though a game’s addictiveness for me is diametrically opposed to how elaborate it is.
“An Excerpt From The Book Of Deeds” (cartoon from Penny Arcade)
I have now finally in the last couple of days managed to wean myself a little from the compulsion to erect roller coaster rides and bump up the price of admission to Kittland for one thing and one thing alone - flOw. Yep if there’s one thing more basic than puzzle games and by the numbers God sims it’s something literally primordial. I float around in the soup of life eating all life forms smaller than me and avoiding all those bigger in a kind of brainless daze much as I imagine those most basic of lifeforms did back in the beginning of life on Earth. You don’t get simpler and more compelling than flOw. Here I am sitting with what is the most advanced gaming console available with the most potential to scale dizzying new heights of flashy super turbo advanced interactive play and I am munching my way through microbiotic life at the pace of a sea snail’s most ancient ancestor. Aye, it’s the simple life for me.
flOw, it’s primordial
