Every Extend (Original Flavor)
Writing by ozandres on Friday, 29 of February , 2008 at 7:12 am
Ok, maybe this is old news to many of you… but here is a game that, for a brief moment of my life, I became quite addicted to. It soothed my turbulent soul like strains of Sibelius would have King Kong (had he been able to hear it over the biplanes).
Maybe it was the awkward, yet haunting, Japanese accents on the soundtrack that says things like “Get ready…” (tripping slightly on the “r” as many Asians do) and “Quicken”; maybe it was the pulsing soundtrack that brought me back to gin-soaked nights in a Williamsburg bar when techno still seemed new; maybe it’s that the game is actually quite short — about three minutes if you don’t know what you’re doing, five if you kick ass and get to meet the major bosses — good for my “I really shouldn’t be playing video games” attitude. (But of course, I played — sometimes for a couple of hours, getting better and worse by turns.)
Maybe it’s the weird “All Your Base Are Belong to Us”-meets-Kurt Schwitters style poetry of the text – ”HONTO are,” anyone? — or maybe I just like blowing shit up? The mysteries of the human heart.
The Xbox version of this — called Every Extended Extra Extreme — failed to impress me. They tried to get all Rez on it, and while the graphics were pretty good, the gameplay wasn’t, or at least I couldn’t figure out why they sacrificed the fluidity of the original to make it seem more Guitar Hero-like — i.e., your gameplay contributed to the music, but it was hindered by actions that stuck to the “beat.” It felt like moving from Galaga to Space Invaders — like your knee caps had been broken by the Mob.
This game is still free, and online, so download it! Tell them Grampa sent you.
Category: Video Games
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