A Critic

I have to admit that I only have little experience with the classic AVG, like Sierra or Lucas Art. I believe they are all great works, but my age disturbs me to approach them, comparing to modern video games, the traditional are sometimes limited with graphic and sound, also much harder puzzles. For the hardcore, they are the core of AVG. But I was't too worried about Legend of Hand (LoH), actually I really enjoy LoH for its amusing content which is included with multiple characters, soundtrack, illustrations. I already knew Cloak and Dagger Games for a while, The main developers Shaun Aitcheson and John Inch are the fan of AVG but their games have showed some new things on the way of AVG road, such as Mudlarks uses a Google Map-like real view as background for a modern story, and The Terrible Old Man presents a expressive and creep drawing for old man’s face. Picture 1. Screenshot of LoH. LoH is a karate game with point and click on the surface, I believe...

我恰好住在附近，才發現到這間非比尋常的餐館，大概是我不吃牛的關係，我每次都只點香茅雞腿飯，一份八十元，跟高雄市區相比，也就是一個雞腿便當的價位，但是他在配菜和主餐上做得非常有味道，那隻雞腿作法類似於義式簡餐的香煎雞腿，肉質新鮮味道十足，很難想像在一間小店裡可以用這個的價位吃到這樣的品質。在老爹廚房裡，實際上有個老爹和老媽，老爹有著濃厚廣東腔口音，老媽應該是在地出生講台語的，夫妻倆也已過一甲子了，我近期去看也只看到老媽在掌廚，老爹似乎生病而歇著和一旁的孫女玩耍，我想到過去老爹到室內拿材料經過看到新聞就會熱情地跟我談論他的人生經驗，雖然我聽得不是很懂，但我能感受得出他所散發出的活力也帶動了其他來客的喜悅。

我和母親五點就到，我媽說在路上看到這間挺不錯的。沒有架得天高的招牌，只有一個立在地上亮著不新不舊的「古早味陽春麵」看板，就現今一簇簇興起的古早味風潮而言，又有誰能夠光用眼睛就能辨識「老店」的真假，或許是它在雙叉路街角鐵皮搭建，牆上沒個菜單，只有一堆膠帶痕跡足以證明它的老舊吧。老闆娘準時五點半才開始料理，點了乾麵和滷菜。在吃一下第一口麵時，你幾乎就可以立定這間店的好壞。它不是以豬油攪拌而成，而是偏向日式清醬的口感，以高湯和醬油組合而成，麵條比一般的陽春麵更為瘦小但卻飽滿的咬勁，上頭還灑滿了新鮮且細碎的蔥花。一碗好的麵就在於調味與麵條本身，熬出來的高湯替代味素，麵條的咬勁足以和手打麵相提並論。老闆生性好客，儘管可能打烊後還得再照料長輩年老的疼痛，但處處皆是以禮待人，我幾乎已經沒再見過有哪個攤販還會主動詢問口味是否合適的情形。這碗麵不僅體現了台灣傳統小吃的精神，更反映出台灣人傳統本性為善的真諦，是實實在在的古早味。