Tag: Musings
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Musings on Star Ocean: The Second Story
Throughout the 8-bit and 16-bit eras of gaming, RPGs were kind of a niche thing. Even though there were some great games out there during this time (early Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and the Phantasy Star series), it was mostly a niche genre of gaming as far as these things went. It wasn’t until the…
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Musings on the Myst VR Remake
Take a Look, It’s in a Book A few years ago, I was talking to a friend of mine who lives out in California. She had just had a date with her now-fiancé at a virtual reality park out her way. We got to talking about how Virtual Reality games are now actually becoming a…
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Musings on Kingdom Hearts and Peer Pressure
A friend of mine asked me to write what I think about the Kingdom Hearts series. It is one of her favorite gaming franchises ever, and she is not the only person I know who adores this series. She was hoping to get my take on it: what I thought was good and bad. I…
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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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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 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…
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Musings on Sonic and Knuckles
Fans of Sonic the Hedgehog have a notoriously bad reputation for being vocal and disagreeable. You’ve got people who became fans of the series because of the Saturday Morning Cartoon and Archie Comics