Survivor? I hardly know 'er!

I don't know what the boards look like on the PC version, but on the 360 there are apparently people who can last in Left 4 Dead's survival mode for over 1100 minutes. And I was proud of just seven minutes. Call me crazy, but I have a feeling there are a couple of undiagnosed bugs still in the system allowing people to not get hit. At this moment in time ascending the leader boards isn't about surviving the undead menace, it's about exploiting a bug and taking part in a wholly meta competition, the winner of which is the owner of the Xbox which red rings last.

Don't get me wrong, survival mode is definatly fun, teams I play with are commonly treated to elaborate fireworks displays as I lay out all of the explosives on the map into convoluted chain reactions, resembling a fourth of July remix of the game mouse trap.

I beat The World Ends With You yesterday, I say beat, what I really mean is finished the main story. I swelled with a great feeling of pride as the end credits rolled, still not entirely sure how I managed to beat those last three bosses, but secure in the knowledge that I had attained ascension. At this moment a charming dialogue box informed me that I had, in fact, accomplished nothing so far, that I had merely passed the entry exam. Now was the time for the obstacle course, which consisted of nothing less than every other level with additional objectives and bosses added. At this point any sane mortal man would put the DS down and pretend that they had never read this final message, living out long and fulfilling lives. But this dialogue box offered a very special treat, the kind I enjoy even more than experience bars: additional story, back story in this case. Put the ambulance on standby, I'm diving back in.

Keep on survivin'