Game Spotlight: The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
I’m not going to bother trying to hide any spoilers for this Game Spotlight for a couple of reasons… the first is that Majora’s Mask is a pretty old game now and if you haven’t played and loved it by now then you’re probably never going to. The second reason is because I’m going to be gushing about some of the awesome moments of this game. So anyway, here goes… I think this one’s going to be another long entry too…
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask is one of my most loved games of all time and also one of my absolute favourites. It’s a game that dares to be different, especially when Ocarina of Time was just a reworked version of A Link to the Past. Of course, like many other games, Majora’s Mask has a niche following… a lot of people tend to ignore it for whatever reason… which is a shame.
“I… I shall consume. Consume…Consume everything…”
— The Moon
But don’t worry, I’ll be spilling just about everything in this blog entry, so if you’re awesome enough to read it all, it’s probably going to feel like you’ve played the game yourself… or hopefully makes you want to play it yourself.
Remember 16
Okay, now that I’m on my summer break, it’s time to spend more time actually posting stuff in here that’s of some worth… Also, I couldn’t help myself, I just had to use a Macross reference for the title of this entry.
Do you remember what video games were like back when you were 16? It wasn’t that long ago for me and I’m sure it wasn’t that long ago for many of you, but I think that that age is an interesting time to look back on. We were all still back in school and we probably didn’t have as much money to spend on video games as we do nowadays… that said, we had a lot more free time to spend playing them.
I turned 16 back in late 2000 and it was quite an interesting time for gaming…
My memories of Metroid
By now, you’ve all read my scathing Game Spotlight of Metroid: Other M… the first game I’ve ever actually HATED in my entire life. The game that has damaged my high regard of the Metroid series forever and there’s really no going back. Metroid used to be one of my favourite series of all time but now…
…now all I have are the memories of better days. In fact, some of them can be found on the Internet itself! I did a little digging around the forum of my old website, The Anime Crisis Center, and discovered some very interesting posts about how I felt about Metroid all those years ago. So, come back with me in time and let’s take a look at those ye olden posts…
An analysis of keyword searches bringing people to this humble video game site
It’s been a little over two years since I opened this web site and during that time I’ve kept a record of traffic statistics for various administrative purposes. Most of it is actually pretty boring stuff that wouldn’t really interest anyone aside from myself, but there’s always something interesting to find when you take a look at the keyword searches people type into search engines to end up at Twilight Lynk.
Some of what people search for is pretty standard, like names of games I’ve mentioned on the blog, “Dead Space” being the most popular, and general video game related material… but there’s always someone looking for a little something more or something that sounds completely unrelated to what I’ve been posting up in this place… I’ve posted up lists of strange keywords people use to get to Twilight Lynk on the forum for awhile now, but this time I thought I should go in-depth and find out exactly why people want to see naked pictures of Chris Redfield……….
Game Spotlight: Metroid: Other M
The wait is finally over and I’ve gotten my hands on the next instalment of my favourite video game series… but is this new Metroid going to stand up against the likes of Super Metroid and Metroid Prime? If you’ve been catching up on the news surrounding this game in the last few days, you’d have seen that there is a great divide of opinion… some love it while others are very disappointed.
Metroid: Other M is a huge leap in a new direction for the Metroid series… in comparison, the first-person perspective and slightly more action orientated tone that the Metroid Prime trilogy took was only a small step. Prime still carried a lot of the very traditional elements that make Metroid what it is and most people found this to be a pretty decent balance of new and old working together. Other M is likely to scare a lot of people with its new additions and gameplay changes… this is NOT your traditional Metroid and that’s basically the whole point of its existence.