Games
Snakes of Avalon interview
When a big publisher releases a blockbuster game, it’s accompanied by a lot of fanfare. Conversely, indie games usually enjoy a release that’s a bit quieter, but that doesn’t mean they’re not deserving of our attention. So, to celebrate the release of indie adventure game Snakes of Avalon, I’ve interviewed the people behind it, Igor Hardy and Alex van der… Continue »
Monkey Island: A Nostalgic Reflection
Arr! It be the week leadin up ta “Talk Like A Pirate Day” ,and what better way to start than to fondly be lookin back at one o’ the greatest pirate stories ever bein told in a video game, Monkey Island. So, let’s walk the plank and hold our breaths for ten minutes as we have a nostalgic reflection of… Continue »
Talk-Like-A-Pirate Week!
Yar Har Har! How be ye all? We be seizing control of Cultural Zest for this week to bring ye our own style of journalism! Ye can expect to see less seriousness around the site for the next few days! Yar! Because we be keelhauling the scallawags who run this magazine so uptightly right up until Talk-Like-A-Pirate Day! So, what… Continue »
The Review That Dares Not Sleep
Well, it’s that time of the month again. And its also time to share our review of The City That Dares Not Sleep! So, let’s get this trainwreck a-rolling, starting with yours truly! After 5 long months, The City That Dares Not Sleep is the final chapter in Telltale Games’ epic 5 part episodic adventure, Sam & Max: The Devil’s… Continue »
Jared Emerson-Johnson: Video Game Music...
June 4… Midnight… and a half… I was half delusional from sleep deprivation, and after a marathon of spending the whole of the previous day listening to the two Sam & Max Soundtracks, I got a crazy idea: “Why don’t I interview Jared Emerson-Johnson?” As a player of the keys myself, Jared had always been one of the people who… Continue »
Guest Review: DeathSpank
Here at Cultural Zest we currently have a very small employment. And two of us are working for free! And Jan Jacob Mekes still needs to put fresh newspaper in our cages! Nevertheless, it’s always a great help when someone else reviews something for us! One member from the Telltale Games Forums, tabstis, has kindly sent us a review for… Continue »
Review: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls
The third season of Telltale’s successful Sam & Max series is slowly coming to a close. What did we here at Cultural Zest think of it? Well, read on to find out, starting with my own opinion! Me being Jan Jacob Mekes, that is. Just so you know. In my review for the previous Sam & Max episode, I wrote… Continue »
Behind the Legends of Sam & Max...
If you’ve been checking, you would have noticed my last 2 articles on art centered around the artists on the Telltale Games Forums, and this one is no different! Stell has contributed her… brain thoughts about art for me to share with you in this exclusive interview! So hold on, because her art certainly is, er… different? CZ: What tools… Continue »
The birth of a web site
Our own Cultural Zest has not long ago left its zestation… pardon… gestation period behind it, having only seen the light of day in May (hey, that rhymes). I just realized we didn’t even send out birth cards to celebrate the event, much less detail the process of its birth. And I’m not going to either, because that would be… Continue »
Monkey Island 2 Special Edition Review
First of all, I’ve already made a whole video review that you can see below, so I’m going to keep this short, but it’ll be a bit different to my review in the video. Now I was first introduced to the Monkey Island series when I was about 8 years old with The Curse of Monkey Island, the 3rd in… Continue »
