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Jan. 2nd, 2004 02:46 pmI went to see Peter Pan yesterday... there was the most beautiful snow -- it looked *fake*, it was so perfect. The air was warm enough not to be bitter, the ground was fluffy and white, and driving wasn't even especially dangerous, because it was all half-melted and slushy, nothing like ice.
It looked even *more* fake after watching Peter Pan. I'd have to say that it's the best version of Peter Pan I've seen, but that I haven't really ever liked Peter Pan, in general. This had the characters acting like kids (that is, irrationally) which is something that's easy to forget to put in when writing a story with kids in it.
This morning, I finished the new Prince of Persia, which had a decent end-sequence, if you count everything after you first see the hourglass, and not just the actual final battle, which wasn't *bad*, but wasn't really hard or flashy. Sort of anticlimactic. But it had every reason to be so, and it would be rather a large spoiler to say why.
I started on the next game in the pile, which (given its LIFO arrangement) was 'Manhunt', which I'd been told had cutscenes with incredible brutality breaking up excellent stealth-action game play. After playing through the first level, I'd have to say that neither of those is really the case, and it's yet another boring crap game trying to sell via shock value (and apparently succeeding. }:P)
Oh well. I could keep playing it, or maybe finish up Gladius or Jak II or FFX2, or switch to Ratchet and Clank, or something... but the long vacation is coming to an end. I'll go back to work Monday. Meeple.
It looked even *more* fake after watching Peter Pan. I'd have to say that it's the best version of Peter Pan I've seen, but that I haven't really ever liked Peter Pan, in general. This had the characters acting like kids (that is, irrationally) which is something that's easy to forget to put in when writing a story with kids in it.
This morning, I finished the new Prince of Persia, which had a decent end-sequence, if you count everything after you first see the hourglass, and not just the actual final battle, which wasn't *bad*, but wasn't really hard or flashy. Sort of anticlimactic. But it had every reason to be so, and it would be rather a large spoiler to say why.
I started on the next game in the pile, which (given its LIFO arrangement) was 'Manhunt', which I'd been told had cutscenes with incredible brutality breaking up excellent stealth-action game play. After playing through the first level, I'd have to say that neither of those is really the case, and it's yet another boring crap game trying to sell via shock value (and apparently succeeding. }:P)
Oh well. I could keep playing it, or maybe finish up Gladius or Jak II or FFX2, or switch to Ratchet and Clank, or something... but the long vacation is coming to an end. I'll go back to work Monday. Meeple.
