In the 8 years since the release of Hollow Knight, the gaming world's adoration of the indie darling and anticipation for its sequel have both grown immensely. What was seemingly a breakthrough success for a small dev team has morphed into one of the biggest indie games of all time with over 15 million copies … Continue reading Hollow Knight: Silksong – The Good, the Bad, and the Six Year Wait
Eight long years have passed since Nintendo returned to form with the launch of their hybrid handheld/console the Nintendo Switch. All-time classics like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey made us rethink what was possible with gaming on the go, and the video game industry was forced to take … Continue reading 2 Months With the Nintendo Switch 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Nintendo
Microsoft ended 2024 with an absolute bang compliments of Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Now for the first time in longer than I can remember, the company behind the Xbox has a chance to establish some real momentum thanks to a suddenly packed first party slate following years of famine that would've made "The … Continue reading Avowed: The Good, the Bad, and the Skyrim
How do you follow up a year like 2023 that featured multiple all-time great games in Baldur's Gate 3, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and Alan Wake 2? From the get go, 2024 had quite the uphill battle, and while I don't think it produced any clear cut all-timers, it was still … Continue reading My Year in Gaming: 2024
Let's get this out of the way real quick. Zelda's first turn as a playable character in a major The Legend of Zelda game is an absolute triumph. It is the perfect bridge between the more traditional isometric Zelda games of yore and the anything goes open world exploration and experimentation of the modern Breath … Continue reading The Most Powerful Item in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom is a Bed
Despite my insistence on playing seemingly every new game released, there has always been one massive blindspot for me - PC gaming. As a kid, my family did not get a true PC until my 16th birthday, and all I really played was some Team Fortress Classic with my buddy Brandon. Eventually in college, I … Continue reading A Steam Deck Check-in With Nightmare Kart, UFO 50, Yars Rising, and Tiny Terry’s Turbo Trip
In the mid 2000's gaming lost a little something. After years of a never-ending rotating cast of platforming mascots of the week, Sony decided to take a grittier, more grounded approach with the PlayStation. While this led to a wealth of wonderful titles and sad dad adventures, a little sparkle left us that only Nintendo … Continue reading Astro Bot: The Good, the Bad, and the Mascot
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
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