Too Many Ninjas!; Addictions of all sorts.

I've written before about beating games.

I'm currently addicted to a game that I've mentioned before. I actually have a huge archive of screengrabs that have been waiting for me to do something with them.

It is a tense game. It cannot be beaten, as far as I know. The upper limits of it... well, I can't even picture.

Many games deal with the idea of defeat. Lives, continues, health bars. Opportunity. Too Many Ninjas deals in only defeat. You only die. There is no maiden, no story.

You are not the ninja. You are something else, not really identified. A man with a sword, poised. He is fatal in the direction he (you) face the sword.

The other, the ninja, constantly breaks the rules. You can't both slide in. You can't launch that star the moment before you disappear from the screen, unreachable, and yet hurtling directly at us like a comet. They do.

It struck me, on coming back to it, that this idea of no recompense from death as glorious is very Japanese, though the creator is not.

Man, what a game. Not relaxing at all, though. Maybe some soothing music.



"The ninjas are probably after my shiny sword. Yeah, look at my sword, it's awesome."

Agreed.






Alright, last one and I go to bed. We all know this got really played out. But we're going to be old men one day, going, "Hey, do you remember...?" "Who!"