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
Hello and welcome to yet another article in my series on The Story Arc: Make a Musou. I love Dynasty Warriors, the number of times I bring it up, and the multiple Musou related articles I’ve written should be proof enough of that. However, I am currently in a Dynasty Warriors drought as I have… Continue reading Make a Musou: Xenoblade 3 Musou
Spoiler free advice for early Xenoblade 3 players
Hello, and welcome to the third article in my new series on The Story Arc: Make a Musou. I love Dynasty Warriors, the number of times I bring it up, and the multiple Musou related articles I’ve written should be proof enough of that. However, I am currently in a Dynasty Warriors drought as I… Continue reading Make a Musou: Xenoblade Musou
If you tell people that Ash Ketchum is one of your favorite characters ever you will be laughed at. People will tell you he has no personality or that he's barely a character. I'm sick of seeing this slander so today on The Story Arc I and my friend CJ are going to recap how… Continue reading Why Ash Ketchum is Better Than You Think
Tomorrow Nintendo will be hosting another long awaited Nintendo Direct. This direct is all but guaranteed to show off at least one DLC fighter for Super Smash Bros Ultimate. So what better way to celebrate than talking about characters who we know will never get in Smash but we really want anyway. Yes that's right,… Continue reading 5 Characters who will NEVER be in Super Smash Brothers
Masahiro Sakurai has always been one for theatrics. Both in game design and in general, the man knows how to create a certain atmosphere. In particular, Super Smash Brothers has always been the series he spoils the most. It’s a series that needs no introduction, and the games have always received acclaim due to their… Continue reading We Just Got a Letter! The importance and lore of the Smash Bros invite
Tokyo Mirage Sessions is a beast of a game. Not content-wise or from a particularly ambitious story, but by the measure in which starting directly at it can cause blindness from sheer overstimulation. Okay, so it’s not quite an eldritch horror in that regard, but the game is weird. No way around it, and… Continue reading Please Give Tokyo Mirage Sessions a Chance!
A Journey Through the Game of the 2010s April & May 2020 Jre Best Well, it's been a little bit. Sincerest apologies for the delays. These last two months have not been easy for anyone and I don’t help myself by putting so many damn words into these articles. Truth be told, Virtual Odyssey almost… Continue reading Virtual Odyssey: April & May 2020: Nier Automata, Until Dawn, Splatoon and Xenoblade Chronicles