(THIS ARTICLE WAS MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH DONATION. IF YOU WANT TO SEE MORE SPECIFIC VIDEOGAMES FEATURED, YOU CAN GO HERE) In preparation for Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night’s latest attempt to resurrect what some people love about Castlevania, I’ve spent the last month playing a previous attempt at the same thing. Castlevania: Lords of Shadow was…
WHY DO I GOTTA KEEP BUYIN SHIT!
Advertising doesn’t seem to end now: The videogames I play or the movies I watch extend out from the media that they’re captured on. They become Forever topics of conversation. “Did you think about this [Probably Marvel Movie Thing] or did you see [X Trailer Revealed at E3]” The most harmful part of it? The…
Witness Jonathan Blow
God Bless Jonathan Blow; that is the opening statement to my lecture. MY lecture is about how important ass holes like Johnathan Blow are. Johathan Blow’s greatest contribution to videogames might be him making a 3D version of the box game a few years ago. Perhaps Johnathan Blow’s greatest contribution to videogames is Braid, the…
THE FRIENDS OF RINGO ISHIKAWA
Platform: Nintendo Switch Released: April, 2019 Publisher / Localization: CIRCLE Ent. Developer: yeo Sometimes I get really busted up about how much time I don’t have for playing videogames. The new ones that come out all want me to be the game I play forever – we’ve been doing that song and dance since 2008….
FATALITY
Have you ever seen a friend get injured? If you have, or if you’ve really just ever had to watch anyone get injured: you know that violence hurts to watch. The sound and sight of someone getting injured has a way of burning itself into your brain. Mortal Kombat 11 gave several members of its…
IF YOU DON’T WANT TO WORK, IT BECOMES YOUR JOB
WHAT THE HELL IS A COMEBACK TOUR There’s one sound that can get me every time. Something that every time I hear it, my brain immediately does the hyper-speed jump into the past. I find myself cross legged on a maroon carpet, sun pouring through the windows. I’m a kid, I give a shit about…
STUPID ENOUGH TO THROW MY LIFE AWAY
My grandmothers funeral was yesterday. Do you know what the day before that was? Devil May Cry 5 got released. I’ve been playing the Devil May Cry series since I was a teenager: I’ve been dreaming of it since before that. The earliest screenshots captured some part of my imagination. Today I still remember…
YOU CAN’T GET THERE BY DRIVING
Else Heart.Break() Is a videogame about programming and computers, or maybe it’s a videogame about community and relationships. Now I am primarily a writer, so I don’t understand how those work: but I do understand how the human heart works. It’s my gift, or maybe a little bit of my curse. Maybe i’m just a…
CHOP TILL YOU DROP
Dead Rising (Chop Till You Drop) There was a singularly high profile Zombie Game released a week or two ago now, and I didn’t comment on it. While I’ve been letting Resident Evil 2 bake in my head for a few days after playing it initially. I’m drawn to Raccoon City. As a kid, I…
character creation
There’s a ship floating above the planet Io, just high enough it could drop out of safe orbit in a matter of seconds. Its pilot is a fierce guardian – though she’s likely more interested in stretching her legs and enjoying a few minutes to air out on the safety of her ship. I don’t…