16 June 2007

Mario vs Donkey Kong 2 : March of the minis

Mario vs Donkey Kong 2Behind this title hides a Lemmings'like game where you need to control mini-Mario toys and guide them to exit of about 100 levels. It's clean, works great with the stylus of the DS, and once you've completed a level, you can do it again to get a "gold star" score and unlock hidden levels. But, once this is done, and I can assure you it won't be long before you finish all levels with at least a silver star, the game is over; that's the problem: it's nice, simple, entertaining, but too short. I've loved it though, enough to work my way to have at least a silver star in all levels and a gold star in 40 levels, to gain access to the last hidden one.

V for Vendetta

Another "comic inspired" movie : it looks as though the movie industry has no more inspiration (not that it has had a tremendous one recently...) and has discovered that, since several decades, generations of creative and talented authors have entertained a large audience in the comic book universe. With the special "let's spread culture" mantra, and more important "let's make big bucks with other's ideas" credo, the big majors seem decided to go over the whole american comics library, for good of for worse.
Fortunately, this one comes under the "good" category. Very visual, beautifully played, inspired, it'll make you spend a good time and, although it's a bit caricatural in its representation of religion and political power, it may give you a couple of things to think about.

03 June 2007

Kiki's delivery service

This japanese animation movie is cute. That's the word, cute. But overall, it's not really as intesting, or original as Grave of the Fireflies or Mononoke for instance... Not much more to tell.