I finally got around to playing and finishing Stellar Blade over the past couple of weeks, and while I enjoyed my experience, I find myself wondering what all the fuss was about. It was a perfectly solid game with a lot of good ideas while also having more than a few weaknesses that held it…
Category: opinion
Revisited: Turning Over Mario Party 2’s Bank
Well, another August has just about passed, eh? We’ll be back to regular posts next week, but for now I’ve got one more post to look back at with you. This one originally ended with my friends and I abandoning the goal, but I actually have an update for you on that. While we did…
Revisited: Tricks, Treats, and Feats – The Golden Age of Halo 3 Rocket Race
Hey again all! Staying cool, I hope! Today we’re taking a look back at Halo 3 and the sorts of moments its wonderfully varied playlists enabled. Seriously, how is it that we’re now 15+ years out from this and we’re still looking back on how good the old stuff was? I dunno about you, but…
Revisited: What Makes a Remaster So Enticing?
Hey all, I hope your August is off to a good start! I know mine is! By the time this goes up I’ll actually be visiting home for the first time in a few years (international is just that expensive these days, unfortunately), and so am not actually around to continue the series I kicked-off…
Looking Back at Chrono Trigger
A short while ago, I was asked if I’d ever consider doing classic game reviews, like Super Nintendo, N64, Gamecube and, heck anything older than PS4/Xbox One. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t have if I hadn’t been asked since I consider stuff from all those eras pretty well-tread ground. However, everyone’s experiences are, as they say,…
Fallout 76: Flatlining Again
A few months back, after following the game’s new but underwhelming path to becoming a ghoul, I had a thought. What if I played through the game’s main story (and subsequent expansions) as a ghoul from the start? Though shotgunner Karla’s story ended with her turning back into a human again (because, at that point,…
What Games Are You Getting This Summer?
As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found myself buying fewer and fewer games at launch. There’s a few reasons for this, price being the biggest but also things like poor launch performance and DLC. Seriously, launch is probably the worst time to buy games, especially those from AAA studios. So, I usually wait. Sometimes months, sometimes…
Is it Time to Move On?
As an aging gamer, I like my nostalgia and legacy series just as much as the next 30–something gaming fan. I mean, it was just last October that I was singing the praises of the Silent Hill 2 remake and I’m pretty sure I’ve talked about more than a few sequels, remakes and spiritual successors…
Missing Missables
After last week’s post, I got to thinking a little bit. Despite all of the cool games that are still coming out, it’s still awfully easy to focus on the gaming business’s negative aspects. Like, it’s really tempting to talk about the Microsoft layoffs and all of the resulting studio closures and game cancellations, but,…
Taking a “Modern” Approach in Street Fighter 6’s World Tour
Since completing Street Fighter 6’s World Tour story almost two years ago, and over the course of revisiting the game when new characters have been released, a singular thought has been percolating: Could I play and enjoy this game using its new “modern” control scheme? The “and enjoy” part is key, because there were moments…
VIRTUAL BASTION 