convore.json/groups/take2/el-shaddai-ascension-of-the-metatron/messages.json

[{"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1306945945.2356551, "message": "It's already out in Japan, coming Westwards later this year, is incredibly beautiful, and seems like a really great game too. \n\nEurogamer loves it: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-06-01-el-shaddai-ascension-of-the-metatron-review\n\n\"El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is the maddest and most beautiful thing I have played since... I don't even know. Probably Space Channel 5. It takes you on a breathtaking aesthetic journey that begins with strange, abstractly tribal landscapes and majestically solemn religious imagery before cartwheeling off in completely unexpected directions. The only thing that even remotely compares to it in terms of visual impact is Child of Eden. El Shaddai isn't perfect, but it doesn't have to be; it's unique, and that's much more important. \"", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1255257}, {"user_id": 33191, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1306949737.642719, "message": "Yeah. Ive been following this game. It looks great.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1255786}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1306999683.3433449, "message": "I keep forgetting about this game!  Silly me\u2026", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1264110}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1306999920.7718821, "message": "WHY did I mentally have this pegged as a Wii game?  PS3?  That means we can\u2026 IMPORT!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1264129}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307001007.044641, "message": "Only the menus are in English.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1264193}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307002530.909106, "message": "Funnily enough, there's a pre-school called El Shaddai a block or so from where I live. Ascension of the Metatoddlers?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1264317}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307002431.655272, "message": "I'll be right back in 1998.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1264308}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307002947.0157981, "message": "I know what the Metatron is. I ALSO WATCHED DOGMA, YOU KNOW! :P", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1264382}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307003241.485507, "message": "And I read His Dark Materials too. I'm a bloody Metatron expert by now!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1264421}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307002792.2127559, "message": "Well, \"El Shaddai\" is one of the invocations of the Abrahamic god (which is why you see it around on preschools and whatnot), and Metatron is an angel-figure in some of the Judaic religions.\n\nAscension of the Metatron is an Eastern reinterpretation of Western mythology as a game\u2026 a nice inversion of the natural order, if you ask me.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1264354}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307003152.1682191, "message": "Silly me!  Forgetting about popular culture's ability to inform and educate!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1264406}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307009569.8105011, "message": "Now THAT is a great series.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1264908}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307010049.8623359, "message": "Absolutely. One of my favorites.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1264966}, {"user_id": 31753, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307035752.055871, "message": "It does.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1268934}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307035268.805486, "message": "Hrm. Does it get better after the first book?", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1268845}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307257229.818548, "message": "Europe: Sept. 9", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1292063}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307602874.3647921, "message": "Seems the US release is in July. I might just go the Tronix route with this one.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1346970}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307603281.7013559, "message": "There is a demo on the US PlayStation store, It's...interesting.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1346996}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307608087.592406, "message": "Oh!  Well!  Time to see if that long-neglected fake US account still works\u2026", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1347323}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307610304.543391, "message": "Oh cool, thanks for the heads-up. Will DL it tonight.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1347491}, {"user_id": 35617, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307620322.4556079, "message": "Is Darric implying that he's never read all of His Dark Materials? There's clearly something wrong with him then.\n\nAlso: going to check out the demo as well. I kinda forgot about this game.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1348619}, {"user_id": 35612, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307627489.6085801, "message": "Edge magazine just gave this an 8.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1350229}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307640067.8146551, "message": "I read Northern Lights a while back, and it didn't really engage me, I don't know. I might go back and read the rest. I haven't read *anything* in ages.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1352021}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307643894.294415, "message": "I bet that'll change in one month and three days' time!", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1352375}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307645044.182369, "message": "I also haven't taken a good long bath since I've been here, really, which is something I need to fix.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1352560}, {"user_id": 25703, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307645023.9536901, "message": "It's actually not really been a matter of time, if anything I'm doing on par or better with my work hours in VFX, but my change in lifestyle doesn't really lend itself to good stretches of reading. I used to do all my reading in lunch breaks, being stuck in town with nothing better to do. Here, I'm a five minute walk from home, so I just do that. :\\", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1352557}, {"user_id": 32282, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307687755.417521, "message": "Replayed the demo. I'm not sold on the gameplay, but the aesthetic is certainly unique.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1357770}, {"user_id": 31927, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307688062.8605039, "message": "Crap.  I completely forgot about this last night.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1357788}, {"user_id": 31852, "stars": [], "topic_id": 37691, "date_created": 1307690899.218796, "message": "I played a little bit of the demo, but the combat definitely seems in danger of becoming very repetitive.", "group_id": 9493, "id": 1358074}]