Category: Features
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Musings on Dragon Quest XI S: Definitive Edition and Industry Practices
In 2019, the Nintendo Switch finally got a version of Dragon Quest 11. It had been a long time since I played any Dragon Quest game, but I kept hearing how good it was. So I downloaded the free demo. After booting that sucker up, I remembered, “Oh, right, I love Dragon Quest,” and set…
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Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League – First Impressions
The Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League trailer has just been released and it is mindblowing. I will start this off that I have not played a ton of DC games myself but have watched a lot of story points and watched others play them. Haven’t seen it yet? Check it out below. Next Generation…
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AQ40 Updated Thoughts
The AQ40 Raid itself was relatively easy. In a new raid you usually bank on using a ton of materials for consumables and a ton of wipes but for us, it was smooth. Throughout the entire raid, we only had 7 wipes across 4 bosses. Which week one that isn’t too bad at all. The…
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Musings on Musical Fan Works
Many years ago, I was incredibly active on HCRealms.com, a forum devoted to the game Heroclix. This was the first internet community I was really a part of and one of the first times I realised it’s ok to be a geek and enjoy superheroes. You are not alone. For those of you who remember growing up before…
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My Top 20 Video Games of All Time
Not too long ago, GameFAQs released a survey that ranked the greatest video games of all time from your personal perspective. It works by presenting you with 2 games and you vote between them. Leaving you stuck in uncertainty when you have to decide between what your favorite Final Fantasy game is. In the end,…
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Musings on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan
Video games are an artistic medium. When they are at their best, they can deeply move you. This can be from the beauty of the graphics or the story they are conveying. But just because a game isn’t a masterpiece, a big seller, or even particularly good, doesn’t mean it can’t be a landmark experience in your life.…
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Musings on Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom
I have a weird fondness for oddball entries in video game series. The ones that just don’t quite fit in with the rest of the games in a franchise. Their existence fascinates me, as they often have unusual historical reasons for coming into existence. Sometimes, different games get reskinned to be part of a franchise they…
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Musings on Ports and Remasters on the Switch
At the time of this writing, Pikmin 3 Deluxe has recently been announced. And, I for one am excited about this. When the first two Pikmin games came out, I could count on one hand the number of people I knew who actually owned a Gamecube. As a result of this, I never really actually experienced Pikmin…
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Musings on Super Paper Mario
Paper Mario: The Origami King has just been released in the past couple of weeks. I have yet to pick it up myself for a couple of reasons. One of those is that I currently have too many games in my “to play” stack for my Switch (and for everything else, for that matter). I definitely…
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Musings on Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3
When you talk to gamers of my generation, when you ask them about the first video games they played, or the first video games they owned, you’re going to hear a couple names quite frequently. If you were to poll a hundred people born between 1980 and 1990 about some of the most memorably and…
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Dealing With Mental Illness in These Difficult Times
During the current Pandemic where we are all stuck at home, it is easy to let your emotions get the better of you. On July 2nd, 2020, a renowned streamer, Byron ‘Reckful’ Bernstein had lost his battle with mental illness (he was only 31 years old). He was honored in World of Warcraft community with…
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Musings on the Secret of Mana
“Some of us like chocolate ice cream, some of us like vanilla ice cream, and some of us like strawberry.” The bulk of my gaming memories are from the Nineties through the early 00s. I vividly remember the excitement of the Console Wars from my childhood. I remember people arguing over the merits of the…