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Agree with the review, beautifully realised, brilliant controls, but DAMN it’s easy (and short). I picked it up Friday evening and finished it Sunday and I wasn’t exactly devoting every waking minute to it. Certainly seems a lot shorter than Link to the Past and the bosses were a walkover.

Loved it whilst playing, but a little disappinted it ended so soon.

(Love the Link costume BTW)

Very good review.

The girl makes it interesting and fun to watch.
Dont know why the moany old fags over at theinquirer.net are rambling on about this like it’s a bad thing. Maybe next time they can just do yet another article bashing Vista… or not.

She talks too much.

The positive youthful hetersexuals over at the Inq are now rambling about something equally as silly … waterproof laptops.

Evidently women won’t be getting pregnant using them either.

Vista is being EOL’d once XP2.1 is out.

Thanks for the free publicity !!!

Katherine is hot. If she was in the game, with or without that costume, I’d buy a DS right now.

it looks like many of us just pop in here from the inquirer.net…

but i ended up watching all other reviews on this website coz of it.

Too British.

happy dopamine filled contentment LOL

My copy of Zelda didn’t have the natty outfit with it. I’m so jealous.

i am from inquirer.net too..some charming review. i will browse this site a little

I saw this one at N4G.

cute, definitely cute!

girls should get a clue, the way to a man’s heart is thru the monitor, lol.

Katharine, I am completely charmed by your love and pixie dust. But I also want to commend you for being so sharpwitted and articulate. Your review was analytical, precise, and right on the mark. That’s what made your video such a pleasure to watch. Keep up the good work!

First up I’d like to welcome all the new viewers who made their way over here from FileFront, Destructoid, the Inquirer and N4G (and thanks guys for linking us). There’s too many to respond to all individually, but I just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the comments and support, it always really helps to know what you think (good and bad).

Goblin: wow - I’m impressed. It’s not the most difficult game ever, but it certainly took me longer than that to get through! *tips hat*.

Ryuta - interesting point about the difference between the psychology of playing portable and console games. I guess it could be related to the fact that many people use their portables for 10 minutes of time passing whilst waiting for the bus etc. rather than sitting down for a big session. I found myself playing for around 1.5 hours at a time with this game, but stopping was more to do with the small screen than the stylus (but my hand defaults to pen holding mode anyway, so I might not be a reliable test subject for that question!)

nobody 1 - haha! I can imagine the conversation with the tax officials now… ‘So, Miss Fletcher, you are being paid for work which our sources tell us is done by your boyfriend. This sounds like tax evasion to me.’ ‘Um, sir, i don’t have a boyfriend…’ ‘You invented him? FRAUD, FRAUD!’ and then I’m in jail!

PCxxy - tru dat!

nice review - lots of sexy background detail.
did you write the review yourself?

And I came here from http://www.dsfanboy.com.

Great review - I will be coming back for more for sure.

And the accent? Oh, Lord!

All the best from Poland!

Thanks for the informative reviews and your reviews are also quite entertaining instead of the usual boring male geek reviews elsewhere like Apple vs PC. Keep up the good work! You have a rather nice upbeat British accent.

You know in the windwaker, if you look through your telescope you can see a ghost ship and if you sail there it disapears, well if thats the same ghost ship that is said to be featured in the new DS game?

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Haha - cheers for the suggestion Cylon Jason perhaps I’ll do another costumed one if the right game presents itself… (if we ever get Beautiful Katamari over here I’ll definitely do that!) The main problem is time though. I don’t even have a sewing machine so I was up very late into the night hand stitching that Link outfit and that was a pretty simple one. With three episodes a week I’d never get any sleep!

G-Dog - good question. Tbh, I’m not sure - sorry! It’s feasible but I can’t confirm or deny.

Greetings, I found this site on the GameTrailers forums and loved the first episode I saw. Your reviews are awesome, to the point and much more human compared to the spiel produced by most magazines.

I was surprised though, like others here, to see a woman doing game reviews and I wonder what sort of games you’re into because most girl gamers are not into a verity of games like guys are (unfortunately)?

Also do you need any other reviewers cus I’m doing a computer games tech uni course and could use the game analysis practise (for free obviously)?

/Ollie

Thanks Siolis I like a variety of different games depending on my mood. I really love the puzzling and exploring side of things so tend to like platform games or RPGs. But I also like blasting crap in FPS, and hand to hand fighting (the SoulCalibur series is one of my favourites ever). I also like the simplicity of a lot of flash games or old school or abstract shooters. For me it’s more about the quality of the individual game rather than liking a genre, especially nowadays when genres are getting quite mixed in big games. I have to admit I’m not big on sports games, and although I like it, I’m pretty useless at non-campaign multiplayer FPS!

Thanks for the offer, but we’re just starting up and at the moment we’re sticking to just one reviewer for each show. If we do expand I’ll try to let you know. Do feel free to post comments about games in these threads though, and let us know if you come across any obscure or interesting gems in your course. Out of interest, which uni are you at? I didn’t know you could study such things!

Katharine said:
October 26th, 2007 at 4:45 am
“nobody 1 - haha! I can imagine the conversation with the tax officials now… ‘So, Miss Fletcher, you are being paid for work which our sources tell us is done by your boyfriend. This sounds like tax evasion to me.’ ‘Um, sir, i don’t have a boyfriend…’ ‘You invented him? FRAUD, FRAUD!’ and then I’m in jail!”

You don’t have a boyfriend?! Wow, if the collective mind of single geekdome didn’t explode at that moment, I am sure it snapped to attention. I guess I wouldn’t know because I am happily married to a bit of a geek myself, but I think it’s a safe assumption.

It looks like you’re doing a great job. Congrats to you, Katharine, and Wil H.
I’ll have to come back, and check out the site more often. Hopefully you’ll review more DS games. It seems like the DS is a great system, but it can be so hard to find good games for it, which is strange since it has the largest install base of any gaming platform (unless you count PCs people aren’t really gaming on).

Hey Pherdnut, thanks for the comment (and offer of advice). I grant you stake immunity - although having said that, Oxford is rather famous for its incendiary behaviour towards heretics! I appreciate what you’re saying about the gimmicks, and will bear that in mind. Really, it was a bit of silly fun because I really liked the game and an early attempt at trying something different, but it memed quite a bit! Still, we’re grateful that it got us some exposure, and that for every 100 people who wanted to watch a silly girl dressed as an elf, a few serious gamers were interested in what I had to say about the game and stuck around. Thanks so much for the encouragement and advice, I am trying to keep things a little more subtle now, although if Beautiful Katamari gets released over here I can’t promise anything!

Do it again! Do it again! (The roll, LOL!)

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