Under the Hatch
I have a defunct laptop with a harddrive I can’t seem to get out of the case – the screws are stuck and stripping.
My sister’s response: “Can’t you use the bone from your roast beef to open the hatch?”
Thus, today is a new commemoration: the yearly joke that is in reference to Shadowgate 64. Not a technically impressive game, but it was a sort of childhood landmark for me and my sister. For me, because I had no familiarity with the idea of “First person without being a shooter” (My childlike translation, scary enemies should be jumping out from everywhere), and I was also completely stumped by the beginning. The game begins with you, a prisoner in a small cell, and very little direction. It took me forever to figure out that I needed to find a bone (a pixellated N64-quality bone on a similarly textured floor) and use it to pick the lock on the hatch – a hatch which I believe was underneath some hay, but I could be overcomplicating it – to escape…
…maybe I can’t get the laptop open until I find the right tool… I better go around a hardware store and mash the A button until I activate something secretly awesome…
If I was really awesome,
I would have written this great commentary on Final Fantasy VIII. As it stands, this entirely summarizes why I fondly call FFVIII “My favorite Final Fantasy game unless you are only counting Final Fantasy games I have managed to play all the way through in which case it must be removed from the list.” Anyway, I highly recommend this article. And hopefully I will be updating with some more of my own here pretty soon. (Yes I say that a lot every time.)
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/70336-remembering-the-orphan-final-fantasy-viii/
