Ever since I began reviewing video games on this blog in 2018, these have been my Game of the Year (GOTY) award winners: 2018 - Celeste2019 - Fire Emblem: Three Houses2020 - Ori and the Will of the Wisps2021 - Metroid Dread You may notice a pattern here -- 2D games take up the majority … Continue reading The Elegance of 2D Games
Time spins on, my friends. With each passing Holiday season, I'm reminded that my childhood was a long time ago, and it's only drifting further and further away into the past. My parents gifted my siblings and I a PlayStation 1, our first video game console, in the Christmas of 1998. I remember plugging that … Continue reading My 2021 In Gaming
It’s that time of year again! I really look forward to my Mini Review Marathon. It’s a good writing exercise to try and condense my opinion about a game down to just a paragraph or two. This year I have nine such reviews lined up for all of you! 1. Ultimate NES Remix (Nintendo 3DS) … Continue reading Mini Review Marathon 2021
Game Builder Garage is a creative engine and online platform for sharing fan-made games developed and published by Nintendo. It was released on the Nintendo Switch in June of 2021. MSRB is $30. A demo is available to download as well. I had asked Nintendo to develop a Super Zelda Dungeon Maker. What I got … Continue reading Game Builder Garage – My New Game-Making Hobby
Well, people, it finally happened. We can now say for certain that everyone is here. We’ve had quite a journey with this second wave of Smash DLC fighters. It all began as a bit of good news in January 2020 that we would get six more fighters, and then it kicked off for real in … Continue reading Ranking Smash Ultimate’s Second Wave of DLC Fighters
Minecraft is a creative, open world, survival crafting game originally developed and published by Mojang for the PC. It was released in beta form in May 2009 and was fully released in November 2011. In 2014 Microsoft bought Mojang, who now handles all publishing rights. Minecraft is available for PC, Android, iOS, PS3, PS4, PS … Continue reading Minecraft: 10 Years of Existentialism
Skyrim is an open-world Western Action RPG developed and published by Bethesda. It originally was released for the PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 on November 11, 2011. Later it was remastered for the PC, Xbox One, and PS4 in October 2016, and was ported to the Nintendo Switch in November 2017. VR versions for all … Continue reading Skyrim: 10 Years of Limitless Possibilities
Last week I talked about the Game Boy Advance, and today it's time to gush about the GameCube. The GameCube launched in November of 2001. Like in my last post, this was a time before I had regular access to the internet and so could only find out about games through TV ads, store demo … Continue reading The GameCube: Finally Appreciated After 20 Years
In the summer of 2001, Nintendo released the 32-bit successor to the Game Boy: The Game Boy Advance (GBA). It lived for only a brief period, a little over 3 years, but they were very successful years, and they defined an important era of my life. Allow me to indulge in my memories of the … Continue reading The Game Boy Advance: A 20th Anniversary Celebration
Sable is an Open World Action/Adventure game developed by Shedworks and published by Raw Fury. It was released in September 2021 for PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. MSRB is $25. I played the PC version. Sable first caught my eye way back in June 2018 during the annual PC Gaming Show. I was … Continue reading Sable: A Cozy Open World
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