Here’s my Metro Reviews for the week of Feb. 9th
Guantanamo Diary
By Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Kindle/iBooks/Kobo
Three Stars
A former member of Al Qaeda who maintained dangerous friendships, it’s easy to see why Mohamedou was picked up by US intelligence 12 years ago, but navigate through the scanned pages and heavily redacted text of his prison diary and it’s less clear why he’s still at Guantanamo Bay today. This is a tale told with surprising sensitivity and intelligence.
RunBit
iPhone/iPad/Android
Free/$1.19
Runbit populates your neighbourhood with virtual GPS stars you can collect by running or jogging. The challenge is to discover the best path to collect them and alter your fitness routine.
Tasty Health
iPhone/iPad
$5.79
With a tweak of the settings you can adjust the number of calories in each recipe of this app. A novel innovation, certainly, but one that changes the taste too.
Reflections x Ray-Ban
iPhone/iPad
Free
By using both your front and back smartphone cameras, Reflections will blend pictures taken between them both for an artistic selfie you can then further stylize using filters and effects.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask
Nintendo 3DS
Rated: Everyone 10+
4 Stars 1/2
By far the most surreal of the Zelda games, Majora’s Mask is a wonderland of nonsensical carnival characters that will play with your perceptions through a three-day time loop.
Link is at his youngest, using fantasy masks to change into imaginative forms with different abilities and a musical ocarina to repeat events. These all weave an adventure that is mystical and fun, but the lack of maps at the beginning and the need to keep track of time travel can make it a disorienting handheld game to play on-the-go too.
