May has been one interesting month. As we inch ever so closer to the biggest video game trade show of the year, the focus of game developers, publishers and journalists has slowly shifted to E3 2014. Every piece of information released or news story ran relates back to E3. Considering all the questions leading into the event, E3 2014 should be either an exciting onslaught of brand new games or a disappointing slog of new information for already announced games. Personally, I am hoping for the former because I want to see the games that will truly get people excited about spending over 500 dollars on the current generation of gaming. As of right now, all this generation has given us is shinier graphics and a massive drought of games. We will see what the future of gaming is next month, but before that let us take a look at the month that was May 2014.
Game of the Month
Kirby: Triple Deluxe and Mario Golf: World Tour both came out on the same Friday at the very beginning of May and these are the two games that captured most of my time this past month. Out of these two game, there can only be one Game of the Month. The game that earns that title is Mario Golf: World Tour. It has been a long time since Mario Golf graced a Nintendo system and World Tour is a return to what gamers loved about Camelot's golf game now turned up to eleven. Early on your time will be mostly dedicated to the single-player Castle Club as you play in tournaments to improve your Mii's handicap, earn new attire and equipment and prepare yourself for online. After some time in Castle Club, you will be ready to hit the online links where the meat and potatoes of World Tour is. The online in World Tour is great as you play rounds against players around the world or in your region at your own pace. Once you complete a round, you can post your score to the tournament or play again and see if you can do better. The online is incredibly smooth and hardly caused a problem for yours truly. Scouring new tournaments each and every week easily will become routine for Mario Golf enthusiasts. Mario Golf: World Tour would not be some fun to play if the core mechanics of golf were not so well made and finely tuned. If there is one game to pick up this month, it is Mario Golf: World Tour. It has given me hours of enjoyment and will give plenty more thanks to online. Guess I will be seeing you on the golf course.
TV Show of the Month
I wanted to change some things up this month. Considering my most anticipated game of the month comes out at the very end of May and I have a whole article already drafted up and ready to be published this coming Friday, there really is no need to regurgitate what I will wrote here in Bit by Bit. So the TV Show of the Month is back for another go especially since May marks the month when most TV shows air their season finales. It seems like every week this past month there has been a major finale of some sort be it Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. or Survivor. Each person has their show they watch every week. As of late, that show has been Person of Interest for yours truly.
I knew of the show, but never watched it until I caught my dad watching the show this past Fall. Person of Interest has gripped me in a way that I have not experienced since Lost came to an end four years ago. Currently, I have watched all of seasons one and two and a part of season three and can say the show has gotten better with every season. Person of Interest is a show about the vigilante partnership between a computer genius Harold Finch and a burned CIA agent John Reese. Finch and Reese receive numbers from an America-wide security system simply known as The Machine. The number they receive indicates either a perpetrator or victim for a possible crime. During the course of the episode, Finch and Reese have to determine whether their person of interest needs to be saved or stopped. Interesting concept for a show that was initially a procedural. Over these three seasons, Person of Interest has become much more serialized with overarching stories and reoccurring threats such as the corrupt police association HR and the rogue security corporation Decima. In particular, Person of Interest perfectly walks the fine line between procedural and serial that makes it like nothing else on television today. The season three finale happened just about two weeks ago now and I cannot get over how amazing it was. The finale completely changed the course of the entire series going forward that I will not do a disservice in spoiling it here. The finale has to be seen to be believed, it is that good. With this finale, Person of Interest has sealed its place as must-watch television. I highly recommend checking Person of Interest out as it is the best show I have seen since Chuck ended in 2012.
Video of the Month
What do you get when you mix the superb music from the Ace Attorney series with popular musician Brentalfloss? Well, you get the newest "With Lyrics" video-- Phoenix Wright with Lyrics. Taking the song Cornered from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and adding lyrics that parody the tropes of this series such as the well-endowed women characters and extreme juxtaposition between charming wackiness and brutal violence. It is a fun song that fans of the series will thoroughly enjoy.
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