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
In Yakuza 6 RGG Studios introduced Oni Michio, a cute mascot character for the small town of Onomichi. This character was an instant success and as such RGG began to put him in every game from Kiwami 2 to Like a Dragon. However, an instant issue began to arise with including Ono Michio in every… Continue reading Yakuza Mystery: Kamulop’s Real Identity
The 2022 Game Awards was proving to be the longest show yet with a runtime of over 4 hours due to an excess of celebrity appearances and Crash Bandicoot skits. I and a large amount of my friend group were getting very bored and were about to fall asleep when suddenly a bizarre chain of… Continue reading Some Random Kid just Hijacked the Game Awards
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?!
A little while ago, WB Games Montréal released their Superhero Action RPG Gotham Knights. I got the game on release date and while it wasn't as good as I wanted it to be, I still had a fun time with it (You can read my review for my full thoughts here).Today though, I don't want… Continue reading Gotham Knights has a Barbara Gordon problem
About 2 weeks ago at the time of writing this article, RGG studios revealed that they would be remaking Yakuza Ishin and would be bringing it to the west for the first time, causing us all to rejoice! It's safe to say that a majority of Yakuza fans, myself included, were very excited over this… Continue reading Every Change Like a Dragon: Ishin is making (That we know of)
In celebration of RGG announcing that not only would they be remaking Yakuza Ishin, but also localizing it into English, I have begun to play through the game in Japanese for the first time.As I have been playing through the game I have been shocked at how many gameplay mechanics I had previously falsely claimed… Continue reading How Yakuza Ishin completely changed the franchise
Spoiler free advice for early Xenoblade 3 players
One month ago on the subreddits r/NieRFanart and r/NieRAutomataGame reddit user u/sadfutago made two posts labeled "How to access the church?". The posts' contents were simply, only two sentences that read "Hello, I'm new to Reddit. I was wondering how to access the church in Nier Automata."People in the replies asked for more info as… Continue reading The Mystery of the Hidden Nier Automata Church
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
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 – Yakuza Musou
For the past month the internet has been loving Heardle, a music based variation on Wordle. The rules are simple, you are given the first second of a song and need to identify it. You get 5 guesses and with each guess you get wrong you are given another second of the song. It's an… Continue reading A list of Video Game Heardles
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
This last week, I finally beat Prey 2017, and you know what…I really liked it. I really like explorative immersive sim design but rarely feel compelled to put up with the expected levels of jank and obtuseness the genre often comes tied with. Prey, however, is a very streamlined version of that formula. The mechanics… Continue reading Prey: Vibes > Audio Logs
The best fan roster a Pokemon game can have