Slowly but surely, I’m working my way through games that I’ve missed in the last couple years. The backlog problem is a very real thing. One of those titles is Rise of the Tomb Raider, the sequel to the 2013 … Continue reading Early Impressions: Rise of the Tomb Raider
Tokyo Xanadu is a game that I thought about playing for a good chunk of 2017. Having been sucked into Falcom’s vortex through the Legend of Heroes series, tackling an action variant seemed like an idea that made a lot … Continue reading First Impressions: Tokyo Xanadu eX+
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
Horizon: Zero Dawn is among several contenders in a stacked 2017 for Game of the Year candidates. There are some years where Horizon would probably have been the clear consensus pick, but in a year with other titans like The … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Prologue (Horizon: Zero Dawn)
Now that I no longer have a broken PS4, I’m trying to play catch-up on several of the heavy hitters the console has produced this year. It was a coin flip on whether NieR: Automata or Horizon: Zero Dawn would … Continue reading Music to My Ears: City Ruins (NieR: Automata)
We’ve given the Legend of Heroes series plenty of love, so why not spend a moment today on another underappreciated JRPG franchise with the phenomenal Falcom Sound Team jdk providing the soundtrack? Ys is Falcom’s most successful property, an action-based … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Main Theme (Ys VIII)
Sports video games have the reputation of being little more than roster updates and a couple new features on an annual basis. NBA 2K18 decided to break from this mold in a new and horrifying way — by completely breaking … Continue reading NBA 2K18, and How Microtransactions Lost a Customer
I think I did a pretty good job not posting about Persona 5 for a while. I should get a medal or something. If we’re being honest, I could do a post about a track from this game for a … Continue reading Music to My Ears: Ark (Persona 5)
Chris, Dave and Shaun continue their basketball odyssey with their team’s third season — but this time, everything they know has changed. Classic NBA teams have joined the league as dimensions have blurred together, and now losing at home means … Continue reading Game On: NBA 2K16 (Part 6, vs. Showtime Lakers)
Chris, Dave and Shaun continue their basketball odyssey with their team’s third season — but this time, everything they know has changed. Classic NBA teams have joined the league as dimensions have blurred together, and now losing at home means … Continue reading Game On: NBA 2K16 (Part 5, vs. ’96 Sonics)
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