It’s time for our wildcard week, folks! While the rest of the month was dedicated to relationships, I thought I’d focus more on our surroundings for this week’s post. Because who doesn’t enjoy decorating their home for Christmas and getting it nice and festive in time for all your guests to arrive? So today, I’m…
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I like to work on art and writing and was inspired by video games and movies and other such things. I love when I find creative stories and characters, and I try to make my own. So far, I've been unsuccessful, but I'm trying.
Listmas 2024: The Duck’s Revised Christmas Guest List
Our last Listmas category before our wildcard week revolves around those characters we’d most want to spend the holidays with, whether it be due to our inkling that they’d be good gift-givers or just a lot of fun to be around. I actually wrote a similar post back in 2022 if you want to check…
Listmas 2024: Even Scrooges Need Christmas Cheer
We’ve already covered our favorite allies and most memorable gaming friendships and family relationships. So now let’s look at the other end of the moral spectrum. Because you can’t really have a good adventure without some villains causing the main conflict. These guys might be on Santa’s naughty list, but that doesn’t mean they can’t…
Listmas 2024: Friends and Family Are the Greatest Gift of All
The one thing more important than gifts and good food during the Christmas season (as much fun as they are) is having friends and family to share the holidays with. (After all, who else is going to give you those presents, ha ha!) So it’s about time we listed some of the gaming relationships that…
Listmas 2024: The Duck’s Favorite Teammates
RPGs are typically known for their grand stories and complex characters. Alongside turn-based fighting where allies and foes alike take turns slapping each other silly. Ahem, considering these kinds of games usually give us a wide array of characters that we can choose to travel alongside us, we thought it would be a good idea…
A Little to the Left is a Little Tedious
As part of one’s Nintendo Switch Online subscription, apparently free game trials are available, in which you have a limited time to play a game for free. I just found this out recently when Nintendo emailed me about a game trial for a puzzle game called A Little to the Left. I had about a…
Ranking the Bosses from Donkey Kong Country 3
Donkey Kong Country 2 already had some perfectly memorable boss fights. But the third game’s penchant for gimmicks meant the bosses tended to vary even more in their mechanics, from a snowball fight with a nightmarish snowman to feeding bugs to a giant sentient barrel until he burps himself off the stage. Frankly, I found…
Alisa: Demo Review
Making modern games in a retro style has become rather common practice lately. A major trend I’ve noticed lately are PS1-style horror games. Perhaps those grainy graphics just lend well to a spooky atmosphere in the same fashion as creepy VHS-style videos. Wanting to try one of these games for myself, I was pleased to…
FNAF 1-4: A Comparison
For the longest time, the only original Scott Cawthon-created Five Nights at Freddy’s games I owned were the first two. This was largely due to the fact that these games were originally only available on the PC, and I’m more of a console gamer. Nevertheless, I still tried the first two games for myself, then…
The Horror That Surrounds: The Eye of the Universe
When I decided to write about Outer Wilds, it was hard to narrow down the exact location I wanted to cover. Let’s see, we’ve got a planet being torn apart from the inside by a black hole, an ocean planet covered in tornadoes, and a bizarre place where the fabric of space itself doesn’t work…
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