Going where several other blogs have gone before.
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 back to the Story Arc! A few days ago I decided to begin putting out a short series of articles about the various evolving mechanics in the Yakuza franchise for December 2022. Last time I covered how locker keys have changed game by game and today I'm going to cover a mechanic… Continue reading The Evolution of Yakuza Mechanics: Taxis
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
November 18th 2022 at 5:20 PM, reports come out from Alex Heath of the Verge that a large amount of the remaining Twitter staff aren't accepting Elon Musk's offer to work on Twitter 2.0.November 18th 2022 at 6:52 PM, Zoë Schiffer of Platformer reports that employees have been restricted access from Twitter headquarters. Allegedly because… Continue reading Twitter is dying and I’m okay with that
This morning Square Enix celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Kingdom Hearts franchise by revealing the much anticipated Kingdom Hearts 4. I, like many other Kingdom Hearts fans, have watched the trailer multiple times and listened to other people's thoughts on it. However with the fast speed which social media moves it's easy to miss… Continue reading Kingdom Hearts 4 Trailer Analysis
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 – Kingdom Hearts Musou
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
Recently in my crusade to deal psychological harm to myself by platinuming every game I play I have been playing a lot of Grand Theft Auto V, part of the platinum requires getting a gold medal on 70 of the game's missions, so I was replaying many missions multiple times. I'm not the kind of… Continue reading The genius of GTA V’s Blitz Play Mission
The film adaptation of a video game that is itself adapted from a book has finally hit Netflix. As a huge fan of Dynasty Warriors and the Musou genre as a whole I needed to watch this. I've been curious about this film ever since our first trailer in 2018, however the first trailer left… Continue reading Dynasty Warriors is everything Video Game Movies should be
A common question in the mind of FGO NA players who are able to look two years into the game's future is "What now?" I had this same thought myself once I managed to get Miyu this February. I had started the game just because I heard she had been added to JP. I managed… Continue reading The Quest for All FGO Daughters: A Journal (Prelude)
So what happens when you take a character from an H-game and give them a magical girl anime? You get Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Now what happens when you do the same thing in the 2010s? You get Magical Girl Prisma Illya.I tried to look up more info on why this particular Fate/Stay Night spinoff… Continue reading Prisma Illya review – flawed but magical
Gambled it all and came out on top
The more trophies I get the worse my sanity gets
I love Sakura Wars, it's one of my favorite franchises ever with Sakura Wars 2 being my favorite game of all time, and one of the reasons for that is the characters. The Sakura Wars franchise is full of amazing and well written characters. So with Sakura Kakumei coming out very soon, why not rank… Continue reading Every Sakura Wars Love Interest Ranked
Almost great, but just missed the mark