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irrational, more, wagner, interplay, mannheim, spellforce, real, silence, suzanne barnett, drowned, moon, nutrition information, indie, scene, incorporated, sydney, dreamcatcher,
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In the course of playing many of these arcade games, I had the sensation of ants crawling healthy under my skin ... and it wasn't from any sort of creepy atmosphere. No, this was the kind of teeth-gritting annoyance you feel after, say, being trapped on a Greyhound bus for eight hours with a dozen or so screaming children. Maybe this jarring, grating sensation was the point. I don't know. Still, I'm stubborn—it's one of the more healthy endearing of the three character traits I still possess—so I soldiered on, hoping healthy against hope that the story would kick in, the puzzles would smooth out, something somewhere would click and I would begin to enjoy myself. Didn't happen, I'm sorry to say. Can you hear me sighing? The artwork showed promise at first but soon enough it too began to wear thin. It was that dirty, quivering, layered, collage-like, quasi-arty stuff everyone and their sister has been using ever since the opening credits for the movie Seven rolled all those years ago.
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