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(source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/06/8-bit-twilight-eclipse/)
"The Twilight Saga: Eclipse brings more action than the previous two films in the shimmery vampire franchise. But with Twilight films, “action” is pretty relative — and often interspersed with the requisite awkward silences and dialogue.
Luckily, through the magic of videogame nostalgia and YouTube, those who wish Bella would just pick a guy, start one massive battle and get it over with already can finally find peace with Twilight Eclipse: The 8-Bit Interactive Game. The “game” is actually a series of YouTube clips, each roughly a minute in length, detailing with welcome brevity the trials of Twilight pseudo-heroine Bella Swan.
Watch as she practically demands that her suitors, Edward and Jacob, fight over her, then insists they not get hurt! Marvel at how much better vampire baseball looks rendered in pixelated 2-D! Praise the internet gods that someone finally put the words “I’m done with piggyback rides, baseball games and shirtless gay wolves!” in Bella’s mouth! Giggle when Jacob “poofs” into a werewolf!
Each video ends with embedded Choose Your Own Adventure-style annotation links that let viewers tell Bella what to do next, which kind of feels like empowering those teenagers at the multiplex screaming “OMG, no!” to finally get what they want out of life. Actual winning in this game is achieved by — spoiler alert! — finding the one path where Bella doesn’t do something so asinine and self-involved she gets herself killed. (We play these things so you don’t have to.)"
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