Awesome Reviews
August 12th, 2007Malec2b’s Awesome reviews for World Heroes Perfect and Permanent Waves.
World Heroes Perfect
All right, to start off these awesome reviews, I’ll talk about a game no one has heard of. “World Heroes Perfect”. The only reason that I have heard of it is because I found it on Gametap, which is something you should all check out by the way (www.gametap.com). Now, I’m not a big fan of fighting games. Generally, there are two ways to win a fighting game, button mash, or memorize the long cheat codes combos. World heroes perfect is different in two ways, one: it’s more movement based. In other words, you can dash in and out of combat to try to avoid attacks. Two: simpler combos. Because of these two things, the game becomes more about trying to hit your opponent with well timed and well placed attacks rather than just memorizing the order to press the buttons. In these ways, World heroes perfect shows some similarities to Super smash bros. However, there are more reasons why this game is awesome.
A large amount of this game’s awesome comes from its uniqueness. The characters range from Rasputin (who, when you select him, wind blows up his robes to which he make an “ooh” noise) to a football player who’s face is in shadow and has glowing red eyes. Also on the roster is Captain Kid along with a tribal warrior who spews tiny versions of itself out of it’s giant mask. Each character also has a signature move, such as Rasputin’s move which summons a giant magical hand to squash the opponent (causing the opponent to shrink for a small amount of time).
All in all, World Heroes Perfect is a game you aren’t likely to find in your local arcade (do you even have a local arcade?). If, however, you have gametap, it is a great game to try out.
Permanent Waves
Alright, to be honest, I didn’t have very high expectations for Permanent Waves by Rush. Don’t get my wrong, I love Rush, they are one of my favorite bands, but around the time they were making this album, they were transitioning to a less progressive, more synthesizer based type of music. I saw this album as there first steps away from their prog rock roots, in the same way that before I bought Sheer Heart Attack by Queen, I had thought of it as a step away from Queen’s roots (even though it came before night at the opera, which I consider true Queen). In the same way that I had, for some reason, thought that Sheer Heart Attack would be more away from Queen’s roots than their next album ANatO, I thought that Moving Pictures would be more away from Rush’s roots than their next album Moving Pictures. I was both right and wrong. I would say that musically, Permanent Waves is very different from Rush’s other prog albums, using more lower tones and more synth. However, it is still made with the progressive spirit of Rush’s earlier albums. I’ll go through the tracks on by one:
The Spirit of Radio- This song is one of Rush’s commercially successful songs, as it was short enough for radio airtime. The song’s main riff gives the feeling of being a radio wave and opens up the album on a good note. The song is one of Rush’s more mainstream songs. The lyrics deal with how the music made played from a machine can have spirit. 4/5
Freewill- Freewill is a great anthem for making choices and not for blaming your mistakes on a deity or on fate. The song has the great line “if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice,” and ends each chourus with the line “I choose free will!”, which by the way, is a great line in concerts, with everyone yelling it as Gaddy Lee sings.- 5/5
Jacob’s ladder- Alright, this is one of the songs that made me want to do an awesome review of this album. The song is mostly instrumental and has a lot of power and keeps on rocking until it is broken up by short vocal bits. Its one of those songs you have to hear to understand. 5/5
Entre Nous- A good song, but the lyrics, especially for the chorus, sometimes don’t quite seem to fit the music, showing you the downside of having someone write the lyrics and another person write the music. 4/5
Different Strings- One of Rush’s few ballads, a well done piece of music 4/5
Natural Science- Here is the other song that made me want to do an awesome review. One of Rush’s last epic length songs, this song is split into three parts. 5/5
Tide pools- Tide pools talks about how tide pools are like miniature worlds with the sea being the universe. This part starts out soft, then suddenly gets very hard rock half way through, when it starts talking about how we don’t understand the consequences of our actions. 5/5
Hyperspace- This part gives the idea of a world of technology going awry, with new technology being developed too quickly and people not understanding the danger that it brings.5/5
Permanent waves- the final section concludes by saying that we gain control over technology rather than let it take control of us. It then talks about how, although the honest man is few and far between, as the waves go in and out of the tide pools and carry’s the water in and out, the honest man will survive. 5/5
I’d just like to remind you that the interpretations of the songs are just that; my interpretations. The true meaning of the song might be way off.
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