As you can no doubt tell, I’m in a big Kingdom Hearts mood, which means I’m ending my Listmas posts with yet another KH list! Today, I’ll be ranking the boss battles from the first game, ranging from the absolute worst to the most fun. Pretty simple, right? Except, since there are so many bosses,…
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Listmas 2025: Five Consoles That Felt Like Magic
I’m more or less current with my game equipment and enjoy it all quite a bit, but this time of year has a way of turning my attention towards and the game consoles of yesteryear. I don’t always revisit these the past systems every time December rolls around, but I still think of them and…
Listmas 2025: Ranking KH2.5’s Data Battles
Keeping with the Kingdom Hearts theme, I have been playing the Final Mix versions of the first two numbered games in the series, which features new boss fights, including battles against the members of Organization XIII who had originally appeared (and perished) in Chain of Memories. This is great because I never enjoyed CoM’s card-based…
Listmas 2025: My Favorite Levels for Donkey Kong December
It’s not officially Donkey Kong December here at Virtual Bastion, but it’s something I wind up observing on my own every year regardless. Well, it’s more like “retro” Donkey Kong December now, as those are the games that pull me back year after year. It’s not necessarily that I play all the old games all…
Listmas 2025: Four Flaws Applied (and One I’m Trying for) in The Outer Worlds 2
Whenever I play an RPG, especially for the first time, I tend to err on the sides of advantage and power when it comes to skills. That’s to say, I pick skills/abilities/etc. that will give my character a leg up in battle and make them the most powerful person in the room. This means I’ll…
Listmas 2025: Kingdom Hearts 2 World Ranking
Last week, I wrote a world ranking about the very first Kingdom Hearts game, and now it’s time to cover its even more impressive sequel, the aptly named Kingdom Hearts 2. This game has some really good worlds…and some really dull ones. I’ll be ranking these based off of everything, the general theming, the story,…
Listmas: Places I’d like to Visit for Christmas
During Listmases past, I’m pretty sure I’ve touched on the games that were either the most Christmas-y of had the best winter levels. There’s absolutely Something to be said for overall atmosphere and feel, but those don’t necessarily make for a place that’d be fun to visit. So, what would be a fun place to…
Listmas 2025: Top Spots in skate.
If someone had told me six months ago that one of my most-played games of the last quarter of 2025 would be a skateboarding game, I’d have called them crazy. And yet, it’s true! I’m talking about the new and not-without-controversy title, skate. Released by EA in mid-September, skate. is a live-service, online game that’s…
Listmas 2025: Kingdom Hearts World Ranking
One of my favorite game series of all time is Kingdom Hearts, a mashup of Disney and Final Fantasy that is surprisingly deep and works far better than you’d expect. With memorable characters and lore that rivals that of Five Nights at Freddy’s, the first two numbered games of the series in particular will always…
Listmas 2025: Games I Want to Give Out This Year
Listmas is here again at last, and here at the outset I’m already thinking about the games I want to give out to my friends and family members who game. It was kind of hard to determine which games would make good gifts since everyone’s tastes are different, but I think the following would be…
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