Back in January 2019 I was enjoying my SNES Classic and decided I should investigate games I'd never played before. I mashed Right on the D-Pad in a kind of "Retro Roulette" I'd made for myself. I landed on Super Ghouls n' Ghosts. I booted it up, died about 20 times without even finishing the … Continue reading How to Make Difficult Video Games Fun
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
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
Pokken Tournament Deluxe is a Pokemon fighting spinoff game developed by Bandai Namco and published by Nintendo. It originally released in arcades and Wii U in 2015. A port to Nintendo Switch was released in September 2017 with the combined content from both Wii U and arcade versions. MSRB is $60. I played the Nintendo … Continue reading Pokken Tournament Deluxe Review: Giving Fighting Games a Fighting Chance
I once wrote a post about games I thought I'd never want to play. In this post, I claimed that I'd never want to play a game so ugly as Skyrim or Dark Souls. I elaborated about the overblown set pieces of cinematic games like Uncharted, sacrificing meaningful gameplay for a B movie plot. I … Continue reading My Gamer Palate
Arms is a fighting game developed and published by Nintendo. It was released exclusively on the Nintendo Switch in June 2017. MSRB is $60. Arms is a colorful marriage between a Fighting game and a Boxing game, like Street Fighter II meets Punch-Out!!. I'm not a fan of either genre. I picked up Soul Caliber … Continue reading Arms Review: The New Nintendo IP Punching Above Its Weight
Hookshot, Charge Beam, Revive 