Okay, this is the last week we’re going to feature Trails of Cold Steel II for a while, I promise. But there were a couple tracks that I’ve been putting off for potential spoiler reasons, and they might be the … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Phantasmal Blaze and Blue Destination
I’ve never been much of a hoarder myself, but I do tend to keep things longer than I should. The biggest issue for me is nostalgia — if an item meant something important to me once upon a time, it’s … Continue reading Moving, or Why Some Old Video Games Had to Go
This is one of the coolest songs in Trails of Cold Steel II, and like the last track we covered, it’s actually a reference to a song from earlier in the series. Aria ~Holy Saint, Holy Spirit~ is from an … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Aria ~Holy Saint, Holy Spirit~
My Hero Academia and One Punch Man are popular shonen anime series with stories featuring worlds in which superheroes save people from villains and monsters. While the premises are undeniably similar, the execution of these ideas is wildly different, making … Continue reading My Hero Academia vs One Punch Man
The Kingdom Hearts series has a gigantic cast of characters comprised of the original characters, Final Fantasy characters, and Disney characters all working to move the story forward and create these great, memorable games. Now with the Dark Seeker saga … Continue reading My Top 5 Favorite Kingdom Hearts Characters
We’ve reached the halfway point of our playthrough of Trails of Cold Steel II, at least as far as recording goes (although the video series isn’t too far behind either). That’s the point at which everything about the sequel gets … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Awakening Will
For the last decade or so, the Royal Rumble has been an exercise in disappointment. Year after year we’ve seen mediocre storylines, poor match pacing and unwanted winners. You can argue that fans haven’t been happy with the end result … Continue reading Blazing a Trail: The Success of the 2018 Royal Rumble
Michaela usually covers the anime stuff around these parts, but I stumbled on a cover of a song that I adored last night. So we’re breaking the rules and covering that in a series that usually focuses on video games … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Tabi no Tochuu (Spice and Wolf)
When we first started playing Trails of Cold Steel for the Youtube channel, I was pretty confident that I was going to enjoy it. I may not have been able to complete Trails in the Sky due to my old … Continue reading Thoughts on Trails of Cold Steel II: The First 20 Hours
Shaun and Michaela have been playing Persona 5 recently, and that has rekindled my itch to dive in again myself. With my time for gaming getting cut down as I go deeper into my 30s, there aren’t very many games … Continue reading Persona 5, and the Rare Joy of Replaying Games
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