Reviving a classic Nintendo franchise means a couple things tend to happen. The new game is picked apart and scrutinized under a vaseline-smeared microscope of nostalgia for previous games in the franchise, and every tiny reference and returning aspect is brought up in the evergreen debate of “where does this fall in the lore!?”. When […]
Over on my BlueSky, I’ve started another minor project. Every single day, I’m posting one game from my game collection. I’m leaning towards lesser-talked about titles that people may not have tried. To make things easier to digest, I’ll also be doing monthly wrap-ups of those posts here on one single page for easier viewing.
Here I sit, in the good ol’ U S of A, watching as everything around me goes to shit by the hands of maniacs and narcissists the likes of which feel pulled straight from a parody. Evil and corruption and grand-scale poor decision making that would make James Bond villains blush. And during that time, […]
Over on my BlueSky, I’ve started another minor project. Every single day, I’m posting one game from my game collection. I’m leaning towards lesser-talked about titles that people may not have tried. To make things easier to digest, I’ll also be doing monthly wrap-ups of those posts here on one single page for easier viewing.
Spoilers kept under Spoiler tag below. All images taken from Asobo Studio’s official website A Plague Tale: Innocence Write-Up Making a sequel to a game that didn’t necessarily need one is always a huge risk. Not every story or concept needs to be made into a franchise. Not only does it run the risk of […]
All images taken from MobyGames’ Ape Escape 2 page There is something to be said about the feel of games from certain eras, in certain genres. Settling into point and click adventures on classic PC hardware. Random encountering your way through pixel art JRPGs on the SNES. And the focus of today’s conversation, yelling at […]
Minor spoilers within. All images taken from Asobo Studio’s official website It’s a tale as old as time. Pick up some sticks and stones, tape them together to make a random thing, and then proceed to brutally murder some dude with said thing. At this point, it’s replaced “jump” as the go-to video game mechanic. […]
The Mog Pile 