After over 10,000 listen's to her first song Rebecca Mayes returns with her musical Okami review. Just in time to help with the Christmas eve cheer, we're sure you and your readers will love this little ditty.

Having caused something of a storm with her first song, and raised many questions amoungst hard core gamers about what counts as a video game review, she can't wait to hear what people make of 'I'm a wolf' her Okami review.

Either way, she's enjoyed having conversations about video games with people who don't usually play from all walks of life. Using songs to talk about games seems to have struck a chord with a fascinated cross section of the public.

What's more she was flatter to have so much press interest which culminated in being commissions to write an exclusive music review for an upcoming DS game.

The exclusive song can be heard first hand on her Audio Gamer writers pages on the site. Have a read of her bio to hear how all this started (read: she got roped in), or check out the lyrics.

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Rebecca Mayes Starts Playing Video Games

Gaming is a mysterious world to me and I stand on the edge and look into it like Alice at the entrance to wonderland.

Recently I jumped into that black hole and found myself lost in a place I don't understand. It is a place full of spectacle and phenomena which feeds my imagination. In many ways I represent all the people who know nothing about games, who are uninspired and uninterested in games. As such, I'm not sure whether I'm particularly welcome here. The way I look at computer games is nothing like an ordinary gamer would look at them. My 'reviews' are naive, ridiculous observations that only someone totally inexperienced could make.

I am inspired by that edge where two distant and separate things meet. What I am interested in is the collision of my own creative world with the creativity of the gaming world. There is something about the gaming wonderland which challenges my understanding of what constitutes beautiful art. It's tempting to be something of a purist when it comes to art, and particularly my own art of creating music, but recently notions of possibility and process have been more important to me than clear-cut, polished beauty.

What I have created here I created at home in my spare room, with whatever I could find lying around the house. These songs come from a place of immediacy - like the first word that comes into your head.

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