Here’s my Metro News reviews for the week of Mar 31st.
Skulls & Bones: El Inglés Goes Missing
By Jay Malinowski
Three Stars
In this first novella from Bedouin Soundclash singer Jay Malinowski, a weathered box gives up a collection of letters between an old sea dog and the granddaughter he left behind in Cape Bretton. Smudged with photos and drawings, they detail a violent, and rather confusing, Maritime family history. An included song, “Skulls & Bones”, suggests at deeper mystery will follow.
Strava
Free
Find great routes for cycling and running in your area with this GPS tracker that offers fun challenges while comparing your performance against others of the same age and weight.
Cocktails by ItalianYummy
Free
There are more than 400 cocktails in this cleverly organized guide that uses delightful graphics for step-by-step instructions. Shake your phone like a martini and you’ll get a surprise drink.
Ravensburger Puzzle
$2.99
From the leading name in Jigsaws comes this fantastic collection of puzzles with intuitive controls, useful sorting tools, nine difficulty levels, and enough pinch-and-zoom visual detail to lose yourself completely.
inFAMOUS: Second Son
PlayStation 4
Rated: Teen
3 1/2 Stars
Delsin Rowe has the ability to become smoke. This should make him superhuman, but because he uses it like a gun for some fairly standard shoot-outs, he’s just another ordinary game character. Compared to the beautiful city of Seattle you get to explore, the engaging characters that appear much later, and some neat activities involving Banksy-inspired street art, the super powers you unlock end up being the least-interesting part of the game. You end up playing, not for what’s happening now, but for what you hope might happen next.
