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Sunday, December 21, 2003
Reviews

juicer October 16, 2003
this site is gay i used to use it all the time and now im fed up with all this fucking sick cartoon porn man
we come to get roms not go through half an hour of porn

Steve October 07, 2003
I agree with Mike. Everytime i enter the number it asks for, you get a message saying "you?ve entered the wrong number". Oh no i haven?t. The old system worked much better.

Mike October 06, 2003
its too much trouble to keep going through that window, it never works I know you want your votes and all but isnt there another way? why not ask us to vote before entering the site

anonymous September 13, 2003
YOUR SITE SUCKS FUCKING COCK, I DON'T WANT TO VOTE FOR NUDE CARTOONS I WANT MY FUCKING ROM YOU SICKS PERVERTS!!!!!!!!!

Am I the only one who find this funny?

Thursday, December 18, 2003

Did I mention that Runaway sucks mootie bootie? Oh, Good LORD, does it suck. I'll share the pain.

It has a cool look, and it kinda sorta reminded me of Circle of Blood (and I better get part trois for Xmas) because the guy talking sounded a LOT like Rolf (but I call him George Stobbard because that was his goofy name in the CoB series). This actor is NOT Rolf, or George, and the character is named Brian, I think, but I don't care because he's a gooneybird anyway, so I always thought of him as George.

Anyway, dumb ol' George runs into Gina, or Maria, or some Mobulous named chick, and away they go on an adventure, which has some cool parts (the Priscilla spoof was pretty good), but mostly it was filled with puzzles that were just plain stupid.

You know, not Roberta Williams's fairy tale stupid, either. I've seen a LOT of gamers gripe about how her genie/snake/bridle puzzle didn't make sense in KQ2, but if you know FAIRY tales, it makes a WHOLE LOTTA sense. After I killed the snake, I rubbed the lamp later on, and got the bridle, and KNEW I had to restore. No, these puzzles are much dumber than that.

Some of them are "Hide the Pixel" from the gamer. In other words, you have to inch and scooch your mouse across the screen to find the SPECIFIC paper (blank hospital chart) or the PERFECT lipstick, or sunglasses, I think it was the sunglasses.

The WORST, WORST, WORST puzzle was the filling the engine with water deal. See, if it's repetitive, the game should just give you a gimme--ala Monkey Island 2. When you figure out that you climb the tree using the reinforced paddle and the whatever that other thing was...block of wood?...Guybrush says, "I GET THE FREAKING IDEA," and you advance to the next screen.

No. Instead I have to traipse through no less than 4 screens to get water about 5 or 10 times.

I must admit that I nearly popped a stitch laughing at the scene in which Mia, or Gina falls down a hole unexpectedly. You see, that girl is NO help to you. In each scene she's either talking to someone WAY off screen, unconscious, kidnapped, believed dead, or gimped up with a broken leg. Well, she walks along the desert in the cut scene, falls down a hole, and George, or Brian, sits down, WEEPS, and has a little flashback of the few minutes that she's been awake or with him.

Do what the title suggests. RUN AWAY.