Ok, so Brutal Legend doesn't have “Force Techniques”. But it is a awesome game. What does have “Force Techniques” is Chapter 5 of the Card College book. This chapter, Like chapter 3, was a lot of fun. It appeals to me on the same levels as the “False Cut”. Smooth, clean, and all personality. Now that I think about it, both of these chapters rely heavily on misdirection and your personality. And those are both things I need to work on. There's a timing to misdirection that takes practice. Whole chapters are devoted to it in magic books. Please read everything you can on it. But in the end you need your timing to match your personality and that's best achieved by performing the effects you practice. I could perform a Slydini Rubber band routine exactly as he did but it would look and be weird. I would have perfect misdirection cues if I did it his way but it would be lifeless. Like a band doing a cover song. Unless they put themselves in the song and make it their own its never as good as the original. I am going to try something new and try to put up videos and pictures of some of the things I talk about. Like the “Ribbon Spread” I talk about in the next paragraph. I couldn't find a picture but I found a Video of that plus some great shuffling on the Theory 11 web site. This is by a member called NeJ from Buenos Aires.
So for this chapter I start by putting a joker on top of the deck. This will be my “Force Card”. Then I do half the moves for a “Crisscross Force” and pause. Get a drink of water or pet the dog. Then I force the joker card on myself. After I do that a couple times I might force the card on my girlfriend or move onto “The Balducci Force”. I love this force. Its so pretty. Anytime you can work a “Ribbon Spread” into a effect I say do it. This is also something I need to work on. Its done entirely in the spectators hands and each time I've tried it my instructions confused the spectator (my girlfriend). So I practice this a little more than the others mentally telling myself exactly how to do it each time I practice. Next comes the “Goldin Force”. I practice this a few times and I have used it a couple times. I like this almost as much as the “Balducci Force”. Then I go over the “Ten-to-twenty Force”. I only do this once or twice. It needs setup. Until I learn how to Organize the deck without a spectator knowing it I don't plan on using it much. This chapter finishes off with a routine called the “Lie Detector”. Its a sweet effect where the spectator selects a card in the deck. Then they take out any other seven cards and calls out the correct names of six of the cards and lies about one card by saying it is the selected card. The magician finds the name of the selected card by detecting the lie the spectator tells. Its not as confusing as it sounds. Or as confusing as Chapter 6: Transfer Cuts.
Brutal Legend does have a forceful power though. Its a great game that begs to be played. I finished it this last weekend. Now I think I will go get anything I missed and try the multiplayer before I get completely sucked into the amazing Uncharted 2 game.
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