I think I had heard about Oxenfree months ago, reading about it in passing before I promptly forgot all about it. More recently, a friend mentioned that I should take a proper look at it. I am so that glad he did.
Supergirl makes her mark on TV, and gives me some real optimism for what’s to come.
Battlefront is exhilarating and fantastic, a sensory overload of an experience. I have spent the last day or so playing the beta for the followup to the games that pretty much define what Star Wars is for me. I really hope that the rest of it is this good.
I think some of my favourite types of story are the ones where you take a character who is fundamentally good, then you throw a cynical, uncaring and frankly horrible world at them, and watch how they react. Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt is this idea down to a tee. One of Netflix’s newest Original Series, it’s the brainchild of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock and the 30 Rock influences are very much noticeable in the writing and comedic style. The programme follows the titular Kimmy Schmidt, played by Ellie Kemper, as she tries to bring her small town sensibilities and earnest nature to New York City so she can survive and thrive. It’s a lovely, conventional and heartwarming story. Except that the title is Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. And it’s named such because when Kimmy was 15, she was kidnapped by an Apocalyptic Preacher and forced to spend the next 15 years underground in a bunker with four other women before being rescued. Which understandably, could be pretty dark as a plot line. Repressed trauma, flashbacks, deep rooted issues and all that.
So Adventure games. There’s gonna be some spoilers here, I’ll try and keep them light for Life is Strange, but you should really have played The Walking Dead by now. Both are excellent, go ahead and play throughout them and then come back. This will probably make slightly more sense to you. If you just want a review, go play Life is Strange. It might not seem like your thing, but it’s fantastic because of that. This is a concise, focussed experience where character is king and the ordinary becomes extraordinary.
