Going where several other blogs have gone before.
Hello and welcome back to the Story Arc. Three weeks ago I began an adventure where every other day in December of 2022 I examine a minor mechanic in the Yakuza franchise and look at how it has evolved game by game. In the previous articles I looked over how super small mechanics like locker… Continue reading Evolution of Yakuza Mechanics: Inventory
Do you all know about DokeV? I'm willing to bet that a lot of you haven't even heard of it. It's an Open-World, Action-Adventure game about catching creatures similar to Pokemon being developed by Korean game studio Pearl Abyss. The game is also allegedly going to have various multiplayer mechanics so that you can play… Continue reading What happened to DokeV?
Do you all remember Toontown? That Disney MMO from the early 2000s that shut down back in 2013? I never played it myself but those who did insist it was a very fun time. The game's premise had you create a disney-esque animal avatar and go around the various areas to fight corporate enemies known… Continue reading What the heck has been going on in Toontown?!
About a month ago I released an article about how Yakuza Ishin turned the Completion List into an actual gameplay mechanic and how every game since has tweaked and slowly evolved it. Upon writing that I got interested in examining other small mechanics that have slowly changed as the series has progressed. Thus I have… Continue reading The evolution of Yakuza mechanics: Locker Keys
Video games come in so many shapes and forms that it’s honestly a bit hard to keep track of. It’s an overwhelming medium that takes ruthless time and energy to commit to. Fortunately, though, there are just so many different kinds of video games that everyone on the planet is bound to be drawn to… Continue reading Idle Gaming: Cookie Clicker, FarmVille, and the Art of Time Wasting
So in my last piece, I introduced this series and went over the depressingly lacking preservation efforts of the seventh generation. I strongly recommend that you at least read the start of that, to get into the kind of headspace that I’m doing for this series. One of the other reasons I’m writing this is… Continue reading The Seventh Gen Part 2: And So It Begins…