Gravity and Dreamfall Chapters

[lathany]

Last night we watched Gravity. bateleur had come to it having seen reviews that praised the special effects, but dissed everything else. I came to it having seen good reviews of it. bateleur was pleasantly surprised and I was disappointed. It wasn't a bad film, but I remained unconvinced by the physics surrounding George Clooney's character's exit. Overall - probably worth seeing and was the right length as it was fairly short (an hour and a half) but long enough to play out its concept.

Over the last couple of months I've been replaying The Longest Journey and Dreamfall. Having finished both, I've finally started the third game of the trilogy - Dreamfall Chapters. Now, like TLJ and Dreamfall, this is a story game divided into 13 chapters. However, unlike the other two, they aren't all released together. In fact Chapters is being released in five parts and the first part (the only one out) has two chapters and a brief interlude. However, so far, it's enjoyable. They've ditched the dubious combat and added a "consequences" system which looks interesting as it uses the choices you make to determine what happens to the character in future (although early days to be sure what I think of it). I'm slightly irritated by the treatment of Zoe in chapter 2 - but otherwise so far so good.

Finally, yesterday was 14 February which is both Valentine's Day and Reeve's birthday. We celebrated with a meal (and Reeve had lots of yummy fish - although he still wanted more).



I had bought some "love bugs" (ie. red and pink ladybirds with chocolate caramel inside from M&S) to put at each place.



The bad news is that I'm the only one in the family who isn't ill today. Everyone else has a cough. bateleur is the worst and he's unable to lie down without choking. I'm hoping that they'll all recover soon. :-(

Comments

[glittertigger]

Hope everyone feels better soon

[lathany.livejournal.com]

Thanks. So far, not so good, but I'm hoping that will change across the week.