Recent reviews by Buster Friendly

I absolutely love this, but can't play for very long because of a nerve issue that makes repetitive clicking painful after a few minutes. If there were an option to just hold down the mouse button and "paint," it would really help.

I love the movie Joe Dirt. If I happen to notice that it's on TV, I'll drop whatever I'm doing and sit down and watch it. It's not a great movie; heck, it might not even be a GOOD movie. But I love it, because it's charming and sincere and funny and everything that I want in a movie that's designed to take my mind off things for a couple of hours and just let my brain chow down on some good old-fashioned intellectual junk food.

This is not the Citizen Kane of video games, but it's absolutely the Joe Dirt of video games.

Man oh man. I'm old and jaded and I buy too many games that I put 20 minutes into and never touch again. It's been a while since a game got its hooks into me like this one has. It's like Dark Souls and Symphony of the Night had a beautiful 8 pound 6 ounce baby.

The ultimate total immersion Russian language program.

I love art games. Games with no win condition, no test of skill. Games that only exist to tell a story, to immerse you in an experience like no other medium can. I've played and enjoyed a lot of them, but if I had to recommend just one that I think everyone should play, Gone Home is it. Everything about it is beautiful - the environment, the atmosphere, and, of course, the story it has to tell.

I seriously dig this game. It's Dwarf Fortress for normal human beings - if you've ever wanted to get in to DF but found the interface infuriatingly obtuse, then you need to try Gnomoria.