GAME: Platformerman

Talk about video games? Alright, I'll start off with something simple. Platforming games are one of my favorite genres of video games, the kinds where your character jumps from platform to platform while avoiding bottomless pits. These are games like Super Mario, Megaman, the original Ninja Gaiden. But here is a game that I downloaded a couple of years ago after a friend recommended it to me that I just recently dug up from some old files. Platformerman.

Yes, it's Platformerman, the game where you become Platformerman, a "man" who jumps from platform to platform, wall crawling up surfaces to rescue his friends and explode his enemies out of existence. And he does this in a race against time! Did I mention that he can blow things up along his path?

Platfromerman is a platforming style game that makes a statement about how video games don't necessarily require fancy "next generation" graphics to be enjoyable. When my friend told me about this game I laughed because it was obvious what kind of game it would be, the question on my mind was: "What does Platformerman look like? What kind of world does he trek?" At first I was slightly hesitant since I had to download the game (At the time I wasn't a fan of having to download flash games just to play them) but I gave it a chance anyways. To my surprise, Platformerman is just a cyan square. [For now] Everything in the game is made of square and there is no fancy world. Just a black void and gray squares.

The game runs smoothly and the controls are very responsive. The levels are quite challenging and I'd say that it is an enjoyable game. It also doesn't take very long to load. The version of the game beta I downloaded back then had 10 levels. The website is http://www.platformerman.com/ and here is a trailer for the game.

Just look at him go! That music is also very nice. [The game features no soundtrack.] 

I like to imagine what he could really look like.

I recommend this game.

What can I even say?

It's been a little over four months since my last post, and it feels awful. I'm not really quite sure what happened to me but it seems as if I suddenly just dropped everything. I remember having plenty of subjects I wanted to talk about, but when I'd sit down to write about them my head would almost go blank and it became difficult to choose what words to type. At the time I made lots of drafts of my posts but everything else started calling for my attention and distractions were [and are] inevitable. (Yu-Gi-Oh! is a distraction itself from other more "important" things.)

Right now I am going through a very strange time. I'm not sure what to do or say and it's almost as if I've completely lost my sense of time. Even with all of drafts of card reviews I was writing out, I didn't feel like talking about cards. To make things worse, I haven't really been dueling lately. I haven't bought any new cards this year, I went months at a time without having a real duel, restructuring my decks feels like such a chore, and I just started logging back into Dueling Network, reluctantly.

Maybe I should take a break from talking about cards... or maybe I just got done doing that. I feel like talking about video games, though it might get a bit confusing for you guys. (This blog was originally intended for talking about Yugioh.)

I don't know what to say, but I can tell you that no one should allow themselves to become apathetic to the point where their lives lack direction and activity. That is all, for now.