Going where several other blogs have gone before.
It's been a long, long time since we got a proper Spongebob platformer. Two years ago, Purple Lamp Studios released a remake of the classic platformer Battle for Bikini Bottom. This remake was met with mixed reception as it was riddled with glitches and performance problems such as horrendously bad pop in. It didn't help… Continue reading SpongeBob SquarePants The Cosmic Shake Review: Different, but Great
Three days ago, Nintendo and Intelligent System released the seventeenth entry in their ever popular Fire Emblem franchise: Fire Emblem Engage. I had fallen off of Fire Emblem years ago as my interest in the franchise began to wane with the release of games like Three Houses, however something about Engage grabbed my interest so… Continue reading Fire Emblem Engage Review: Rebuilding the Foundations
Last year Luminous Productions and Square Enix revealed their new open world action RPG Forspoken. The game's premise is that a young woman from New York gets transported to a fantasy world and gains magical powers that she must use to save the world. For the past year Forspoken has sort of been a laughing… Continue reading I Really Enjoyed Forspoken’s Demo – A Review
Featured Image; Christ Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. It looks like a video game map. Basically the only science fiction I’ve even engaged with in the last month has been Disney’s latest Star Wars series, Andor. This time of year always gets busy for me, and I’ve… Continue reading Prescience 3: Against All Lore
Three days ago, Warner Brothers Montréal released their open world Bat-Family ARPG, Gotham Knights, to the world. When Gotham Knights was first announced I was extremely excited for it as a fan of the Bat-Family, but as time moved on and we learned more and more about the game I began to dread it. How… Continue reading Gotham Knights Review: WB’s Guardians of the Galaxy
Last week I was one of the lucky few people to be given access to the Street Fighter 6 Closed Beta Test. Upon getting my email I immediately downloaded the game, waited for the release day…and then had to wait half a day more before for the first few hours the game was up the… Continue reading A Newbie’s Thoughts on the Street Fighter 6 Beta
Cover Image: The Topanga Microwave Relay Tower, part of AT&T's Long Lines program, via this reddit post. In our popular imagination Science Fiction is grandiose and scales vast changes. Those could be social, technological, temporal, or even distances, but the point is that we generally think of Science Fiction as spanning some giant visible change.… Continue reading Prescience 1: In Which I Talk About A Specific Aesthetic That I’m Likely Misnaming
Despite the currently middling reviews and overall lackluster reception the game has received thus far, let it be known that Shadow Warrior 3 will fondly be looked back at as the best first-person shooter game of the year, if not one of the best first-person shooter games of this generation. This seems like quite a… Continue reading Shadow Warrior 3: Almost Perfect
In 2019 and 2020 two popular manga that get games all the time coincidentally tried out the same genre: Open World Action RPG. In 2019 we got One Piece World Seeker from Ganbarion and in 2020 we got Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot from CyberConnect2.On the surface it would be obvious which of these games would… Continue reading Dragon Ball Z Kakarot vs One Piece World Seeker: Transforming Anime to RPG
Just so you know this is not an unbiased review, this is in fact it's supremely biased review. I didn't want to watch WrestleMania this year. I haven't watched WWE tv regularly for two years, skipping the regular programming and picking a select number of pay-per-views a year instead. This is by far the best… Continue reading I’m still not over it: WrestleMania 38 reviewed
In early 2018, the world was introduced to Ice Cream Man, written by W. Maxwell Prince with beautiful art by Martin Morazzo. The series is a horror anthology that is quickly approaching its 30th issue. it's also one of my favorite comic books in general, so indulge me in gushing a bit.Ice Cream Man as… Continue reading Why Ice Cream Man is my Favorite Horror Anthology
Last February Atlus and Tecmo Koei released the latest spinoff of the Persona franchise: Persona 5 Strikers, combining the Musou gameplay of the Dynasty Warriors franchise and the world of Persona 5. As someone who is a huge fan of both these franchises, I was very pessimistic about this game. A long stream of Warriors… Continue reading Persona 5 Strikers Review: Exceeding Expectations
Earlier this year Square Enix revealed that Eidos-Montréal was working on a Guardians of the Galaxy game and people online are still mad that this AAA title based on a billion dollar IP got an entire fifteen minutes of ad time at E3. This reveal coming right off the failure of Square's Avengers game caused… Continue reading Guardians of the Galaxy Review
Frogwares hasn't lost their touch
Around a month ago now Samurai Warriors 5 released in the West, and I….didn't play it until last week. Can you blame me? Even as a huge Warriors fan, July 27th, 2021 was packed full of big game releases and The Great Ace Attorney and NEO The World Ends With You took priority for me.… Continue reading Samurai Warriors 5 review: Rebuilding the franchise