Recently I found myself watching the Zero Punctuation review of the Orange Box, and specifically for Portal. I don't really need to add my accolades to the pile that was heaped on to this game. Game of the year, most innovative game, blackest humor of the year, etc.

Anyway, watching the review, I was encouraged to go play it again. it's just a short game, taking only 3 1/2 hours or so, especially the second time through. And, after a really fantastic boss battle at the end, up came the song. That wonderful song. It stuck in my head for weeks after playing the first time. And now it's wedged back in there tight as ever.

So, I present to you, "Still Alive":

Despite the craptacular history of Star Wars video games, I was really looking forward to the new Star Wars video game "The Force Unleashed". With the promise of a fully-realized story, the Euphoria graphics engine promising lots of flailing-stormtrooper goodness, and just general bad-assery, release day was tantalizing.

Then I saw this review:

Sometimes a review makes you think "well, maybe my experience will be different", but it looks like the game is just a shotgun full of fail. Hell, there's one point where the game testers obviously just ran out of time ("Bonus objective: Default Text" WTF?) but they figured "Ah, ship it anyway".

I'm ever so disappointed.