Macbeth and Her Story
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lathanyLast weekend I took Bea to see Macbeth at The Globe as it's her GCSE play. We bought burritos from Waterloo station on our way there, which I can thoroughly recommend (although - really, really go for mild!) and ate them in the little park with the cat (which according to Google is called Bernie Spain Gardens). We arrived in plenty of time for the performance and collected our cushions. I hadn't read the reviews beforehand, so did not know what to expect.
It turned out to be good overall. It featured unusual treatment of the witches as the choir sung their lines and there were four of them. There was a great deal of the musicians in general and they play in most scenes. Also, first prominent disabled actor (Nadia Albina) - she played a witch and also the Porter, the latter of these being excellent. I wasn't sure what to make of the child wandering all over the place - but the rest seemed to work and the two leads (Ray Fearon and Tara Fitzgerald) were good.
At home, I've been playing Her Story which I bought in the Steam sale. My summary is that it's a smart concept - using search terms to view a series of murder investigations - and I enjoyed it a great deal. However, I also found aspects of that gameplay (which some reviewers didn't consider gameplay) clunky and, consequently, irritating as you had to manually order the clips. I liked the story, or at least the version that I think is most obvious (and, frankly, I've never been sold on ambiguity as an art form), but it is a very sad story.
Finally, I was pleased with my two runs of Set In Stone, my recent one-off roleplaying game which was inspired by both Devon’s The Big Sheep attraction and the existence of the Lynx UK Trust. I was even more pleased that it escaped being a comedy game despite being based in a theme park called The Loud Quack.
It turned out to be good overall. It featured unusual treatment of the witches as the choir sung their lines and there were four of them. There was a great deal of the musicians in general and they play in most scenes. Also, first prominent disabled actor (Nadia Albina) - she played a witch and also the Porter, the latter of these being excellent. I wasn't sure what to make of the child wandering all over the place - but the rest seemed to work and the two leads (Ray Fearon and Tara Fitzgerald) were good.
At home, I've been playing Her Story which I bought in the Steam sale. My summary is that it's a smart concept - using search terms to view a series of murder investigations - and I enjoyed it a great deal. However, I also found aspects of that gameplay (which some reviewers didn't consider gameplay) clunky and, consequently, irritating as you had to manually order the clips. I liked the story, or at least the version that I think is most obvious (and, frankly, I've never been sold on ambiguity as an art form), but it is a very sad story.
Finally, I was pleased with my two runs of Set In Stone, my recent one-off roleplaying game which was inspired by both Devon’s The Big Sheep attraction and the existence of the Lynx UK Trust. I was even more pleased that it escaped being a comedy game despite being based in a theme park called The Loud Quack.
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Date: 2016-07-20 06:41 am (UTC)One of my recent stack of novels was partially set in Bernie Spain Gardens (did you know the Bernie in question was a Bernadette?) Burritos and Shakespeare sounds like a good outing!
I read about Her Story and thought it sounded like an interesting idea.
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Date: 2016-07-20 06:06 pm (UTC)I didn't. That's cool.
I read about Her Story and thought it sounded like an interesting idea.
It is an interesting idea. It's the execution that I'm less keen on. (Although, it's not awful, just that I could see improvements from early on.) When/If GameFAQs posts my full review I'll link to it.