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...Halo 3, making it sound like the next game of the year [Sept. 10]. He stated that the story is "rich and complicated in ways that we're not used to in video games." But long before Halo 3 was conceived, there were The Legend of Zelda and the Castlevania and Metroid series. Even the more recent Mario games have a deep story line. Halo's formula is to introduce a masked spaceman hero, put him on a strange outpost in space and antagonize him with aggressive aliens. Adrian Goldberg, Laguna Hills, Calif...
...Halo 3, making it sound like the next game of the year [Sept. 10]. He stated that the story is "rich and complicated in ways that we're not used to in video games." But long before Halo 3 was conceived, there were The Legend of Zelda and the Castlevania and Metroid series. Even the more recent Mario games have a deep story line. Halo's formula is to introduce a masked spaceman hero, put him on a strange outpost in space and antagonize him with aggressive aliens. Adrian Goldberg, LAGUNA HILLS, CALIF...
...course, the links of influence between Nintendo tunes and rock music wasn't purely one-sided. The popular sounds of the 1980s, responding to a challenge of ornamentation from punk rock and acoustic folk, made their mark on the Nintendo music sensibility, with mixed results. The "Woods" theme from Castlevania II sounds like a Van Halen outtake on speed, as its mathematical, shredding guitar lines lead into glorious faux-hardcore breakdowns. Yet across the genre, cheesy overharmonized lines abound, suggesting the danger of complexity for its own sake as well as the immaturity of adolescent gamers. Again, this critique...
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