Friday, April 01, 2005
On Becca
The PSP is one of the nicest little electronic gizmos I have ever held. The only adjective I can think of to describe her is "sexy", with possibly "svelte" as a distant second. When she first lights up her panoramic screen, the first and only think you can do is just stare. Stare, and resist the urge to just touch it. This screen is that nice.
Lumines, apparantly pronounced "lew-mih-nuss"* and not "lew-mines", is Tetris on E. Playing it, you can almost simultaneously hear the ravers saying "You got Tetris in my techno!", whilst the puzzlers are yelling "You got techno in my Tetris!" right back, like some juvenile quasi-Reeses PBC addicts. Lumines has all the appearance of being just a cheap, fluorescent, glittery knock-off of that great Russian puzzle institution, but let me assure you, it is not. If you get a PSP, you must get Lumines.
Wipeout Pure, in contrast, is not quite the next leap up from its predecessor like Lumines is, and is rather more like a proper revisiting to the glory days of yore. I haven't played any of the Wipeouts between the first and this one, but from what I've heard, they were less than stellar. This new one feels just like the first one though, and since the internet agrees with me, I feel my statement at the start of this paragraph is justified. Because really, how can you go wrong when the majority of the internet is on your side?
As far as video goes, while the odds of my watching Spider-man 2 in its entirety on a portable are slim and none, I'm still impressed with how well it works. The screen is sharp and bright, and while small, is still large enough to pull you into it enough to ignore pesky, lesser things not within the borders of that glorious display. The sound also caught me off-guard. I was expecting the tinny spatterings of the Game Boys of days gone by--imagine my surprise when I heard audio coming out of Becca!
I have not tried the wireless yet, because my home network uses WPA rather than WEP. This will be rectified immediately, and I will also take the first opportunity to start trying out the PSP9 software that seems to be popular these days. I don't have a USB cable or a large enough memory card yet though, so there's really no rush.
Now, I should really try and do some work. And y'know, NOT play Wipeout. Or Lumines. Or look forward to seeing Sin City tonight, despite the metric truckload of ass A Dame To Kill For kicked when I read it last night.
Sigh.
This day is going to take forever.
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* Or maybe even "luminous"... ¶ 8:17 a.m.
The PSP is one of the nicest little electronic gizmos I have ever held. The only adjective I can think of to describe her is "sexy", with possibly "svelte" as a distant second. When she first lights up her panoramic screen, the first and only think you can do is just stare. Stare, and resist the urge to just touch it. This screen is that nice.
Lumines, apparantly pronounced "lew-mih-nuss"* and not "lew-mines", is Tetris on E. Playing it, you can almost simultaneously hear the ravers saying "You got Tetris in my techno!", whilst the puzzlers are yelling "You got techno in my Tetris!" right back, like some juvenile quasi-Reeses PBC addicts. Lumines has all the appearance of being just a cheap, fluorescent, glittery knock-off of that great Russian puzzle institution, but let me assure you, it is not. If you get a PSP, you must get Lumines.
Wipeout Pure, in contrast, is not quite the next leap up from its predecessor like Lumines is, and is rather more like a proper revisiting to the glory days of yore. I haven't played any of the Wipeouts between the first and this one, but from what I've heard, they were less than stellar. This new one feels just like the first one though, and since the internet agrees with me, I feel my statement at the start of this paragraph is justified. Because really, how can you go wrong when the majority of the internet is on your side?
As far as video goes, while the odds of my watching Spider-man 2 in its entirety on a portable are slim and none, I'm still impressed with how well it works. The screen is sharp and bright, and while small, is still large enough to pull you into it enough to ignore pesky, lesser things not within the borders of that glorious display. The sound also caught me off-guard. I was expecting the tinny spatterings of the Game Boys of days gone by--imagine my surprise when I heard audio coming out of Becca!
I have not tried the wireless yet, because my home network uses WPA rather than WEP. This will be rectified immediately, and I will also take the first opportunity to start trying out the PSP9 software that seems to be popular these days. I don't have a USB cable or a large enough memory card yet though, so there's really no rush.
Now, I should really try and do some work. And y'know, NOT play Wipeout. Or Lumines. Or look forward to seeing Sin City tonight, despite the metric truckload of ass A Dame To Kill For kicked when I read it last night.
Sigh.
This day is going to take forever.
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* Or maybe even "luminous"... ¶ 8:17 a.m.
