Jared Rea

Here’s something that I should have mentioned last week. Head honcho of Q Entertainment and overall awesome guy, Tetsuya Mizuguchi, was in town for the last push of Rez HD and came by the GameTap offices for an interview. There were about four of us in there to do it so while everyone else had the serious questions down, I pinged him with questions that I can only deem as once in a lifetime. We ended up talking quite a bit about his scarcely documented work on the arcade racer Manx TT and at one point I accidentally managed to call him overweight.

I’m the master of dealing with cute, fobby people. Ask me to place your order at Jollibee next time.

I’ve been spending a lot of time with Rez HD recently and it’s definitely a title that has stood the test of time, but most likely because there’s still nothing quite like it. And thank god for that. I don’t think I’d want to live in a world where there were annual sequels of Rez like we got with Katamari Damacy. I’ve been shooting for the achievements, though I’m noticing that it takes me longer and longer each time through the Direct Assault mode. I keep losing interest half way and wind up picking it back up again six hours later.

I’m not sure if I’d jump off the deep end and call it a ten, but I will consider you a bad person if you own an Xbox 360 and don’t pick up Rez. Chances are you never played it and if you did, it was probably the crappy Dreamcast version anyway. Go now!