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Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition
There aren’t many games I would refer to as “masterpieces” in the same way another person might. It takes very little for me to be pleased, but a lot for me to be impressed, especially when it comes to JRPGs – when you’ve played through as many as I have over the years, it takes a lot to surprise you. You can only see it so many times before it becomes stale and predictable.
With that said, Xenoblade Chronicles remains the best game I ever played.
Continue readingMegaman X2
So I caved. I told myself that I was going to leave more time between Megaman games, but the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to play the next one…partially because I now have the Zero collection and feel like I should probably play the X games first (I’m conveniently ignoring the originals until I have significantly more patience or masochism) but also because I actually really enjoyed the original and wanted more of the same.
It’s nice when I get what I actually want.
Continue readingDOOM
Wolfenstein 3D was one of my favourite games growing up, mostly because it was the most violent thing I had at the time. But I was never allowed to have Doom on the Gameboy Advance – apparently shooting demons is bad, but shooting Nazis is A-OK?
I’ve always been curious, but I’ve never had the time to really give Doom a try. I’m really glad I made time now.
Continue readingCave Story+
This is one of those games that has been on my radar for years but one I have never gotten around to, mostly because of the asking price and there being other things I would rather spend my money on. I mean, I love a sprite-based Metroidvania as much as the next person who grew up with them, but…well, they’re a dime a dozen these days.
But Cave Story is critically acclaimed! One of the best indie games of all time!
…why, though?
Continue readingDarksiders Genesis
I love Darksiders. I have since the moment I first saw the trailer for the first game. It’s a series that has constantly disappointed me in the grand scheme of things, but I have loved every game, even though none of the games have moved beyond the ending of the first. It’s been ten fucking years and I’m STILL waiting on a continuation of the first game!
Unfortunately, Darksiders Genesis is not that continuation, it’s a spinoff prequel. But it’s still pretty good…mostly.
Continue readingWorld of Final Fantasy Maxima
I really want to like every video game I play. Why else would I buy them? I play to have fun, not suffer or critique – I’m not a journalist. It’s never particularly pleasant when I play something utterly unenjoyable…and this often happens with games I really want to enjoy, too. Games that seem just made for me end up being…awful, frankly. I don’t have very high expectations of games; I’m easy to please – I can overlook one bad element as long as the rest of the product is good…most of the time. But sometimes a game just makes me throw my hands up in disgust and wonder what I did to deserve this.
Yeah, this was another one of THOSE games.
Continue readingSecret of Mana
One thing I have never liked about the video game industry is its glorification of “classic” titles, which may or may not even hold up particularly well by today’s standards. It’s like a QoL blindfold is put over people’s eyes when it comes to improvements made on the original formula. The original is the best, no ifs, ands, or buts. The games that were amazing back then are still amazing, even if their gameplay has been improved upon thanks to new innovations and existing hardware. He who does it first, does it best. It’s an attitude I really cannot get behind, and one that irritates me every time it comes up in conversation…and it inevitably does, because people just LOVE their nostalgia.
Don’t get me wrong here, I do too…well, to some extent. It is important to understand video game history, and where these ideas and trends originate. But what is NOT acceptable, or realistic, is putting the origin of these ideas up on a pedestal as the best example of the medium.
Fans of Secret of Mana, look away now.
Continue readingBatman: The Enemy Within
Controversial opinion time: The Enemy Within is the best Telltale game ever made. Better than The Walking Dead (although not by much when it comes to the second season in particular) and significantly better than the rest of them.
Controversial opinion time #2: John Doe is the best Joker not voiced by Mark Hamill.
Yeah, I fucking love this game.
Continue readingBatman: The Telltale Series
I am probably not as knowledgeable about Batman as I ought to be. Growing up with the 90s animated series should have made me a fan of the comics as well really, but I was very much a Marvel comics fan, and with subsequent Batman media being very hit-and-miss (Gotham, The Batman, select episodes of Brave and the Bold, and the one-off DC animated movies were amazing, the rest – and yes, I include Nolan’s trilogy in this – were trash) I’ve never really been as huge of a fan as I might have otherwise been if Marvel didn’t have better comics during the 90s and cartoons that were at least on-par.
…come on, everyone knows the 90s X-Men theme. You know I’ve got a point.
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