Four years after the release of Final Fantasy VII Remake and over 26 years following the original's debuted, the most expansive realization of the epic journey of Cloud, Tifa, Aerith, and friends to heal the planet and stop Sephiroth has finally arrived. In many ways, Remake had it easy. It just had to turn the … Continue reading Final Fantasy VII Rebirth: The Good, the Bad, and the Mini-Games
Judging by my writing output this year (2 whole posts!), you might think that 2023 did not have a whole lot to talk about in gaming. In fact, it was quite the opposite as the year provided us with one of the most memorable gaming feasts of all-time to rival 1998 and 2018. From the … Continue reading My Year in Gaming: 2023
Note: 2023 was a fantastic year in gaming. I may have written this back in May and then gotten too caught up playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Baulder's Gate 3 to actually publish it until now! Enjoy this very late review to see how Cal Kestis's second adventure builds upon … Continue reading Star Wars Jedi: Survivor – The Good, the Bad, and the Rancor
From the Playdate, to the Analogue Pocket and the Evercade EXP, the past six months have seen rapid expansion of my handheld gaming capabilities. They are all just so cute and charming. How am I, a simple gamer with disposable income, supposed to resist their wiles? While I had heard effusive praise for Blaze Entertainment's … Continue reading Evercade EXP: The Good, the Bad, and the Homebrew
The passage of time is a crazy thing. Somehow, this blog has now been humming along for over five years, and I find myself writing my sixth massive year in review recap. While the number of posts I make per year might be dwindling somewhat, the amount of games I am playing sure is not. … Continue reading My Year in Gaming: 2022
As 2022 draws to a wintery close, the gaming gods have given us one final contender to attempt to unseat Elden Ring as this year's GOTY. Kratos and Atreus are back trying to stave off the end of the world and plunder a few chests along the way in the follow-up to my 2018 GOTY … Continue reading God of War Ragnarök: The Good, the Bad, and the Boy
In honor of this year's The Last of Us Day, which, as we all know, marks the day the Cordyceps Brain Infection overtook the world, I thought I would share some of the best screenshots from my recent trek through the PS5 remake of my favorite game of all time. As an added service, I … Continue reading The Last of Us Part I: A Photo Album of Good Times in the Zombie Apocalypse
There is a certain sense of childlike wonder that only a quality handheld console can elicit. Nothing is quite like the promise of fun anywhere provided by a AA battery-draining Game Boy. Sure you may have spent half the time trying desperately to get the light just right to see the screen in the car … Continue reading Playdate: The Good, the Bad, and the Cranky
With video game manuals having mostly died out over the past 15 years, you might be surprised to learn that there are still plenty of opportunities to read about video games! For the first time ever, I'm going to channel my inner-Oprah and devote some space in this blog to printed media. So, the next … Continue reading The Pwned and Operated Book Club
One of my favorite gaming experiences of the last generation of consoles was Guerrilla Game's 2017 hit, Horizon Zero Dawn. Bolstered by a thrilling post apocalyptic world that melds the primitive with the high-tech and a breakthrough performance by Ashly Burch as the outcast Aloy, HZD established a character and setting with seemingly limitless potential … Continue reading Horizon Forbidden West: The Good, the Bad, and the Robot Dinosaur Apocalypse
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