Thanks to my internet provider Comcast, we (as in, myself and unitdaisy) were stuck offline all weekend. Yeah, real bang-up job they're doing - we've been stuck with no internet for a quarter of the frickin' month of January. Normally this would be a good thing, as I typically take advantages of these extreme outages to get in a bit of gaming but alas, that didn't happen this weekend, at least no more than usual. However, I did spend a smattering of time earlier last week (during, yes, another outage) with Under the Skin.

Readers of our forum know that I have been anticipating it for quite some time, and to say that I'm disappointed in the end result would be an understatement along the lines of say, 'My internet connection is only slightly unreliable.' The concept and design is wacky (you're an alien sent to Earth to prove your mettle by pranking us puny humans), and visually the game is somewhat striking - feeling like the game design was inspired by bobblehead dolls. The problem comes in that the game becomes amazingly redundant within three minutes of playing, and when your first level has a ten minute time limit ... well, that's just bad news. The shoddy camera doesn't help either; while it's user-adjustable, it always seems to be too close-up, and too low to be adequate. Capcom, you can do better than this. And where's that Power Stone follow-up??

As I've mentioned before, I'm burning through the LucasArts Archives: Adventure Collection at the moment. However, what you probably don't know is that unitdaisy and my bowling league just started up again! It's been a while since we've been able to participate, but I finally retrieved our league shirt from its mothballs. Enjoy the following pictures as a sad commentary on the nature of my being.

Guybrush. As in Threepwood. He'll rock your frame and baste your turkeys.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrr