Yesterday veteran videogame journalist Chris Jensen showed that he’s not shy when it comes to calling ‘em like he sees them in his critique of the PS3’s Uncharted 2 and the gushing other journalists were doing over it. That seems to extend to his giving of praise as well. Today he was using his dark wit and humor to share his two cents  about a little known game from publisher Atlas called Demon’s Souls and we think even the title of his posts says it’s worth reading:

Demon’s Souls: Pussies Need Not Apply

An important exclusive release for the Sony Playstation 3, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, recently came out and it is earning  wildly enthusiastic reviews and very high scores from journalists everywhere. Well, almost everywhere. Not one to go along with a crowd, Chris Jensen has posted a dissenting opinion over at GameAlmighty.com that is very critical of the game – and his fellow journalists. Before finally making the decision to spend that $60 on Uncharted 2, it would be worth your time to read just one more short (and humorous) review.

It’s not unusual to find myself completely removed from the mainstream, so discovering that I loathed nearly every second of District 9 didn’t comes as a shock. My last experience with feeling overwhelming alienation was The Dark Knight, a movie that literally bored me too sleep. One may suspect that I hate science-fiction and action movies, but that isn’t the case. I adore the genre, it’s just that I like to see it done well.

What do I consider excellent science fiction movies?

2001: A Space Odyssey

Alien

Aliens

Primer

Timecrimes

The Quiet Earth

Brazil

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Soylent Green

Blade Runner

The Road Warrior

The Terminator

Moon

The Day the Earth Stood Still

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Planet of the Apes

E.T.

All of these movies have one thing in common: originality. Some have huge budgets while others, like Primer, were made for $2,000.

So when I see District 9 receive quotes such as this…

“No true fan of science fiction — or, for that matter, cinema — can help but thrill to the action, high stakes and suspense built around a very original chase movie.” – Hollywood Reporter

…I have to wonder if I saw the same movie as everyone else. I’ve read thousands of science-fiction books, from Asimov to Gene Wolfe, Robert Silverberg to Kurt Vonnegut, Arthur Clarke to Mike Resnick and everyone in-between. I also happen to be a cinemaphile, adoring the work of Akira Kurasawa, Ingmar Bergman, Stanley Kubrick, Werner Herzog, Sam Peckinpah, Scorsese and Hitchcock.

But, according to the Hollywood Reporter and countless critics, I neither like science-fiction or cinema.

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News to me.

District 9 is being held aloft like the second coming of science fiction. I’ve lost track of the amount of times I’ve heard or read the following statement: District 9 is the best science-fiction movie of the past 20 years. All I can say in defense is, “Oh, so you haven’t seen Moon, huh?” District 9 isn’t even the best science-fiction of the past four months.

So what exaclty are my problems with District 9? Read More

The folks over at GameAlmighty.com have posted an article on what we can only hope will be a lasting trend – good games all-year round, not just a holiday season fisted full of all the best titles. Do the game publishers honestly think we save up our money the entire year until the holidays roll around, and then like some sort of gaming chipmunk we stuff our cheeks full of enough of them to play for the next 12 months?

From GameAlmighty.com:

“[It is] my opinion that this was an ill-advised practice rooted in an old model that assumed most game purchases are made by someone for someone else. As in a Mother buying Super Mario Bros for their child at Christmas because it was on his list, instead of the more contemporary and accurate example of a 35-year-old kid buying Super Mario Bros Wii for himself now because today was its release date and rationalizing it all to his wife by saying it is for their children ‘because they have been good.’”

They also include a slew of mini-reviews covering all of this weeks most significant releases as well as a very in-depth review of the highly-anticipated Wii shooter, The Conduit that is definitely worth checking out.