Excitement! Isn’t it exciting?
That tingle of anticipation that courses through your body when something is going to happen. Modern life hasn’t given us a lot to be excited about (yes I would like to pay more for my weekly food shop, yes I do love it when trains I’m about to get on are cancelled for no apparent reason, it’s probably for the best there’s a shortage of ‘X’ because I was enjoying it far too much and needed a bit of a break) so you have to grab hold of these moments whenever you can and cling them to your bosom.
Sometimes it doesn’t even take that much to be excited. For me, it was three words in an email and I was sent into a wide-eyed frenzy of sorts. “Lord Winklebottom Investigates” said the email, “coming soon”. That technically is five words but I wasn’t focusing on the last two so much. ‘Lord Winklebottom Investigates’. Beautiful. Simple.
It’s so ridiculous and so ‘me’ that I had to know more. It is a 1920’s murder mystery, point and click adventure (inspired by Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie) featuring a dashing giraffe detective. It has full English voice acting (with everyone probably sounding posher than a Duke with an afternoon tea set shoved up his backside) and an original 1920’s inspired soundtrack. Given that I have an anthropomorphic badger tattooed on my left arm it’s not too surprising that this has tickled my fancy. I have also played a game called ‘Chicken Police’. I am not an adult.
It is already out and available digitally on Steam, PS4, X-Box 1 and Switch so you can all play this now if you wanted to, however I am waiting for the physical version to come out so I can proudly display the game for all to see, possibly next to ‘Chicken Police’. I want Lord Winklebottom on my shelf so people know just how ridiculous one person can be although deep down I expect they are already aware of this.
Get excited. Be excited.
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I am excited. I have looked up whether this is available on the platforms available to me (second hand PC for playing 90s games; Mac laptop) and it’s been released on both. I’m seriously thinking about getting myself a slice of the giraffe action.
We should have a Lord Winklebottom book group (but it’s not a book so maybe more like a game group) where we all talk about great it is. Isn’t there some kind of internet thing that does that?
Somewhere on the Internet people can talk about games they like? No, that’s a very novel idea. I don’t think that exists. We could do it here I suppose but it’s very unconventional.
We shall start that thing so that others may flock to it and spread their positive opinions on games and all other kinds of media. We can call it Flitter or Sheddit or Bookface.
Call it all three. I see the domain name http://www.flittershedditbookface.com is vacant. I suggest we snap it up before anyone else has the same idea.
YEAH. That’s what people do, they say they’ll do things and then they do them. YEAH!
Bring on the domain name. YEAH.
YEAH.
(I haven’t done anything about this.)
YEAH.
(I’m waiting for the physical version of the game and it’s not out until September. Talk about making me wait. Me.)
YEAH.
I haven’t bothered buying it either, so that just goes to show what all my lah-de-dah words are worth.