... and more.

I realize I named the blog "Of books and movies", but I did not mean to exclude any other media.
Fact is, it's not just novels and movies I like, but also comics, television, theater and videogames. Anything that can tell a story and entertain.

So what I want to share is that I have finished "The Fourth Bear" and have started playing "Sam & Max: Season One". And maybe I am simply biased at this point, but I think that there is a similarity between the two, in the setting, a similar sense of nothing's-too-crazy creativity.

I used to love adventure games, as a die-hard Lucasarts fan. I had stopped and fogotten because... well, google it yourself. There's nothing more frustrating than to be deemed irrelevant by the very company you once supported with glowing enthusiasm.
This year's Games Convention in Leipzig threw me right back into my old favourite genre, and I'm in love again all over. At the same time, I understand why companies choose to make action game after action game instead of adventures. You need a good story, interesting characters, entertaining dialogue and fascinating riddles. It's a genre where you really need originality instead of just technical improvements.
Geez, my choice of words, totally crazed-worshipper. I'll go away now.