Cruise Elroy

I’m done with No More Heroes now, and since I wrote my last post just a third of the way into the game I thought I’d put it to bed with some final thoughts. Links As it turns out, No More Heroes has inspired a ton of critical discourse, so rather than rehashing what everyone (…)

At the risk of turning this site into the Brainy Gamer Revue, I’m going to play around a bit with Michael Abbott’s “gaming tripod” theory discussed in this post and this podcast. Michael outlines three broad categories of games that are currently “supporting” the industry, like the legs of a tripod: games that favor narrative (…)

I started No More Heroes over the weekend. There’s not much to add to the excellent critiques from Leigh Alexander, Michael Abbott, and Steve Gaynor — among others — but I thought I’d offer up my first impressions anyway. In a word, it’s hilarious. The essays I linked above all talk about how No More (…)