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Bringing Sexy Back: Rebecca Mayes's Musical Game Reviews

Posted by Derrick Sanskrit

Game People is a blog that has been amusing me for a little while now, playing to the idea that there are many different types of gamers out there (there are) and that they deserve to have their opinions on games heard (they do) because they're interesting and insightful (they are!). They've got a sports gamer and a teen gamer and a family gamer and even a haiku gamer who reviews games with haikus and origami. It seems the contributor drawing the most attention, though, is Rebecca Mayes, Game People's "audio gamer".



Like so many people we know and love, Rebecca is new to the world of video games. She does not have a pedigree in Metroid, Rebecca is just diving into a mysterious pool of beautifully uncertain water and hoping she'll float. She does this by doing what comes naturally to her, writing and recording quaint little pop songs about whatever she's playing. If ever a genre was formed of "twee gaming," I think Rebecca and I would be right there in the same boat of uneasy wonder, she plucking her guitar strings and me thumbing my kalimba. What? Sorry, I seem to have drifted off there for a moment... As is, they're rather delightful jaunts. Check out her newest one for Flower (sorry, the embeded player doesn't seem to work on our blog). The sound is somewhere between Imogen Heap and a hushed Neko Case, for anyone to whom that sort of thing matters.

She's also got some rather amusing ones for Hello Kitty, Okami and Wii Sports, but easily her best ballad to date is this ode to Kyle Hyde, the shifty hero of Hotel Dusk: Room 215:



Rebecca makes me long for the days of adorning my beret as a patron of our local open mic night eight years ago, writing stream of concious songs during the day and performing them at night...except her's are all charming and about video games. Keep an eye out, she seems to do these on a roughly monthly basis.

Previously on Bringing Sexy Back:
The Nintendo DS Spa
Toshihiro Nagoshi
Retro Controllers of the Future
John Carmack
Street Fighter Dress-Up Party!
Susan O'Conner
Yoji Shinkawa

Also:
Soulja Boy on Braid: "BWOOOOOOOP!"


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