The third level of EveryDay Shooter, titled "Lush Look Killer"

We hope you like cliffhangers. Because Round 2 of the current installment of our Vs. Mode exchange on short session games with MTV News reporter Stephen Totilo, which is also being posted on Totilo's blog MTV News: Multiplayer, ended rather abruptly with Totilo asking us whether Super Stardust HD "feels like one of the first of a potential new strain of high-end small games?" In today's entry, we respond to his question in the negative, while going on to sing the praises of EveryDay Shooter--and suggest some possibilities for a sequel. Unwilling to let us dream a little dream, Totilo declares his preference for a brand new game from the EDS creator rather than our much-longed for follow-up, before going on to champion the 500-channel universe that is his new small games existence. Some excerpts.

N'Gai Croal: Jonathan Mak has barely scratched the surface of what EveryDay Shooter can do. Today, the game only uses guitar-based music. Imagine an EDS sequel built around other types of instruments: brass, woodwinds, stringed, percussive. Imagine an EDS built around choral voices, or a human beat box like Rahzel from the Roots, or a DJ collective like the X-Ecutioners. Imagine an EDS with adjustable audio effects to go along with the visual effects that gamers can unlock in the current version, and new visual effects to boot. Imagine an EDS where you could mash up these different elements with new backgrounds and enemies. I'd love to play that.

Stephen Totilo: Since I started covering games, I've had a huge variety of big new games at my fingertips. I've played a lot of those titles. But it's only now as I indulge in this newly available plethora of small games on non-PC hardware that I'm experiencing that kind of variety at this rapid pace. And you know what? I like this gaming lifestyle. I like the idea that every couple of days there is a new game for me to play on the 360 or PS3 that I can download in the blink of an eye, have embedded in an easy-to-navigate menu of games, and that I can sample and judge whether I like it in just a few minutes. I feel that this is a more exciting way to be a gamer.

To read Round 3 of our exchange in its entirety, click on the link below.

1. HUH...DirectX 10.1, clarified
2. AHA...Madden PS3 downgrade, explained
3. HMM...Testing games via Xbox Live, detailed
4. RND...New York Times op-ed, savaged