Ok, here’s a first- I’m going to encourage all you guys to chip in on an article and get your screens posted up for all to see! All you have to do is risk your good name forever being attached to Nazis.

Yes, you can have some time to think it over.

So, what is it? I want all you guys to try out the Hitler Test. All you gotta do is take any game with a robust character creation system, then see if you can create a Hitler. The closer the end result, the more successfully the game has passed. For example, you can make a Hitler Mii really easily, but ModNation Racers lacks the critical ‘stache. I have a feeling the moustache factor will weigh heavily in the end…

Since not a whole lot good has come out lately, I’ve been trying to put a dent in my gaming backlog. I think this is probably why I take every chance I get to bitch about the fact that every game released these days is measured in hours rather than levels- even a beat-em-up like Bayonetta (Let’s face it, the game is basically Battletoads with tits) takes a ‘mere’ ten hours or so of play to complete, and we have people who complain about games with a story mode that only takes six. Grah. Grah, I say to anyone within earshot!

Which brings me to the problem at hand: I used to have a bad habit of snagging anything remotely interesting up off the clearance racks at electronics stores. As PS2 got more and more displaced, that means I’ve got at least a half-dozen epic length RPG’s, backed up by action games of questionable quality that I just haven’t had the patience to sit through. Then there’s the stack of PS1 games I ‘inherited’ with my friend’s old console, not to mention a stack of DS and PSP RPG’s I grabbed up on release expecting them to get horribly rare. Well, I’d like to thank the gaming industry here for not releasing much of anything I give a crap about long enough for me to kill off some of these things. I’m pretty happy to say I’ve beaten more games in the past few months than in a couple years. That said, that backlog includes three Nippon Ichi games.

Hehehe… heh.