Persona 5 Royal: Mind Games and More Palaces

After completing Persona 5 Royal’s first palace, Kamoshida’s Castle, I had no idea just how the game could or would top it. Not only was Kamoshida’s whole story somewhat shocking, but his castle was so utterly twisted that I couldn’t imagine how subsequent palaces could be any more perverse. And yet, they did. I’m not…

It Seems Atomic Heart is Selling Rather Well!

Good news for fans of AA-level games: Atomic Heart is actually doing fairly well. As reported by Mp1st.com, the publisher of Atomic Heart, Focus Entertainment, released a revenue report that claims that the company’s overall revenues are up about 36% from last year. This inlcudes everything that the company publishes, but Atomic Heart sales in…

Hunting Down Missing Strawberries in Celeste

A couple years ago, I wrote a review about my experiences with Celeste, a super difficult game about climbing a mountain.  The game was amazing, don’t get me wrong, but it was also quite a trial.  And while I did manage to complete the main game (chapters 1-7), there’s a whole lot that I didn’t…

I’m Kinda Glad Morality Systems Went Away

You know, I used to quite like morality systems in video games. They had a way of giving one’s choices some narrative weight and were often what a game’s different ending hinged on. That said though, I’ve found my opinion on the mechanic changing over the years. It’s not that the idea itself is bad,…

Revisiting Neverwinter

In the latter half of 2018, I became obsessed with the MMO Neverwinter. Actually, it may be more accurate to say that I became obsessed with its characters, classes, and leveling; because once I max-leveled a character in each of its available classes, my general interest fizzled. Oh, I tried my hand at a few…

Bravely Default 2: Demo Review

Although I am indeed an RPG fan, I feel like there’s just so many RPG’s out there that one would really need to catch my eye in order to entice me to buy it.  One such series that I’ve always passed over was Bravely Default, which, aside from having a rather odd name, didn’t appear…

Dragon Age: Origins is Both Better and Worse 13 Years Later

It’s amazing to me that 2009 is already practically ancient history as far as video games are concerned. Yet, a lot has indeed changed, especially when it comes to presentation and storytelling. Where everything was (for some reason) meant to be dark, gritty and very brown back then, now vibrance carries the day.