I recently dove into Final Fantasy VI for the first time ever and can’t say I’m not feeling a little teary-eyed as its finish line closes in. I simply don’t want it to end. (And yet, of course I do, because Kefka has to be stopped!) Before FFVI, I don’t know what I’d have picked…
Category: Unforgettable
Unforgettable: Mingy Jongo, the Crafty Shaman Impersonator
When I first played Banjo-Tooie, I had never played the first game (and Youtube Let’s Plays were not a thing), so all the characters were new to me. Bottles’ death was surprising, but didn’t mean anything. I didn’t know Mumbo’s role from the first game used to be Humba’s role now. I didn’t even know…
Resonance: Reaching for the Summit was Unforgettable
Some moments in gaming are just so amazing or terrifying or shocking that we just can’t forget about them. Others are accompanied by such fitting music that the whole scene is elevated to a new level. It shouldn’t be surprising then that, sometimes, both of these things coincide for the very peak of gaming moments….
Unforgettable: “The Game was Rigged from the Start”
Unsurprisingly, Fallout, in it’s now varied forms, has taken up a good chunk of my attention lately. Not only am I’m continuing a new journey through the Commonwealth in Fallout 4, but I’m nearing the end of the TV show, and I’ve been watching playthroughs of first two Fallout games. They aren’t my cup of…
Unforgettable: Nightmare (Metroid Fusion)
I’ve sunk many replay hours into several notable gaming series: Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Grand Theft Auto, to name a few. But I don’t think any of them come close to the time I spent replaying a “trilogy” of its own: Metroid: Zero Mission (remake of the original Metroid), Super Metroid, and Metroid Fusion. While…
Unforgettable: The Final Boss of Yoshi’s Island
In the recent-ish past, I wrote about my experiences playing Yoshi’s Island for the very first time, a really charming and unique game for the SNES. One of the biggest highlights for me was the fun and unique boss fights. While there were many memorable examples, the boss fight that stood out the most to…
Unforgettable: The Interactive Intro of Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
When I first started playing video games in earnest, words like “Atari” and “arcade” were commonplace. “Nintendo” and “Mario” soon followed, and with them came a chasm-like leap in video game technology. After spending countless hours with relatively simple (but not simplistic) games like Pole Position and Defender, I was utterly wowed by what would…
Unforgettable: 8-Bit Grannies World Tour
In the not too distant past, I decided to replay Rayman Legends. Like its predecessor, Rayman Origins, this game is the perfect combination of beautiful, challenging, and sometimes, downright weird. Out of a plethora of strange moments, none are so memorable for me as the music levels, even more so when you consider their 8-bit…
Unforgettable: Master Hand and the World of Light
In case you’re wondering about the vague title, I didn’t want to spoil something major for Ultimate’s World of Light, so… Ahem, though World of Light was not nearly as cinematic as Brawl’s Subspace Emissary, what few moments it did have were epic indeed. But what I think surprised me the most was not any…
Rare Scares: The “Unforgettable” King RedEye
In video games, boss fights are often meant to be an epic affair where our heroes face off against a foe that is, more often than not, super powerful, huge, or both. For these reasons, only the most memorable of boss encounters can be chosen for our Unforgettable series, as we simply can’t pick them…
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