It’s been a while. A really long while. So long, in fact, that I’m actually scared to post this incase the old, dusty frame of BCR collapses under the strain of this singular new post. Because seriously, more than a year? Wow.
We’ve never been under any illusions that our humble little video games & film blog was ever popular or even viewed by more than 40 people in the world on a regular basis, but all the same I want to apologise for my failure as a would-be blogger in posting anything whatsoever post-circa-early 2012.
Did I get lazy? Maybe. Will this site ever be what we had once hoped it would? Probably not. I don’t anticipate I’ll be making any more posts any time soon, unless a mystical vision appears to me and explains it’s the only way I can save the world from the Apocalypse, but let’s be honest, I’d probably be too lazy even then.
Whilst this isn’t an official closure of BCR (who knows, maybe we’ll get a second wind one day), I’d like to say I did have a whale of a time writing articles about all kinds of tripe, particularly when reviewing video games, and if any of my scrawlings have ever entertained even one person, then I’ll be pleased.
For now, if you’re reading this because you thought you’d check and see if we’ve ever posted anything since April last year, thank you for -ever- coming back. However, unless we make some serious updates and plans to get back on track, don’t expect anything of interest to occur here for a good while, if at all.
If it does, we hope you will know about it.
Cheers
Dome Keeper is an excellent little spin on the tower defense game, in which you play the role of a jetpacking miner defending his base from swarms of aliens, whilst searching for a hidden relic buried somewhere beneath him. And now, with this huge free update, you can play it with friends.
I want to talk about Cloudpunk, a game where you get to be a flying-car delivery driver in a futuristic cyberpunk city. Its world is an incredible achievement of environmental design, and while the gameplay itself may be basic, the city of Nivalis is a thing of beauty to behold. Nivalis is built out of hundreds of hand-modelled cuboid buildings; there’s nothing procedural about it. Apparently it took 3 years for the devs to design the city, and it really shows.
I do love me some quality pixel art, and it doesn’t get much better than this. Cast n Chill is a cozy side-scrolling fishing game by small indie dev team Wombat Brawler, with absolutely gorgeous visuals. It’s simple to play, and you you can dip in and out of it at your leisure, making it a fine addition to our collection of coffee break games.
Format: PS1 & PC
Release date: 1997
I’m not sure what to tell you about FF7. Simply put, it’s one of my all-time favourite games, and the hordes of fans it has makes me feel like a bit of a cliché to even include it in this feature. But I have to. It changed my life, I think. Before this, I had not played a game with such a deep and engaging story, an epic tale about a host of very likable characters, all unique and fleshed out with interesting back stories. It’s just wonderful.
I’ve played many versions of Mario Kart, first on the Snes at a friend’s house, followed by my own copy of the N64 version. The Nintendo DS edition got a lot of play during the various anime conventions that I attended between 2006 and 2011, where you could LAN it up via Bluetooth with anyone else in the vicinity. But the version I truly have the fondest memories of has to be Mario Kart Wii.
I do love me some quality pixel art, and it doesn’t get much better than this. Cast n Chill is a cozy side-scrolling fishing game by small indie dev team Wombat Brawler, with absolutely gorgeous visuals. It’s simple to play, and you you can dip in and out of it at your leisure, making it a fine addition to our collection of coffee break games.
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