2013 Game Review Haiku, #10 – Vanquish
Slide, shoot, hide, slide, shoot The standard “save the world” stuff Foreboding ending – These little haikus proved to be quite popular in 2012, so I’m gonna keep them going for another year. Or until...
View ArticleA videogames rundown in honor of Barristan the Bold
Right now, I don’t have any particular thoughts on a particular game, so I figured I could use a post to sum up what’s going on with the games I’m playing currently. As usual, I am juggling several,...
View ArticleJoe Danger 2, a colorful crash course in prodigious puns
To my honest surprise, I enjoyed Trials Evolution despite having no appreciation or interest in all things motorcycle riders traversing over obstacles. In my youth, I did do some light biking with...
View ArticleThe Cave, a labyrinthine moral adventure for the tested and tedious
Excited about exploring and seeing what was next, the scientist ran ahead, but fell too far from a high platform and died, turning into a magical puff of white smoke and re-materializing earlier in...
View Article2013 Game Review Haiku, #15 – The Cave
Pick your three poisons Explore the Cave, heed its snark Ladders are the worst – These little haikus proved to be quite popular in 2012, so I’m gonna keep them going for another year. Or until I get...
View ArticleinFamous 2 is decent fun, but no shock to the system
So far, inFamous 2 really makes me want to go back to free Nazi-controlled terrain in The Saboteur or stop kicking dirt around and finally pick up Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, y’know, the game I more...
View ArticleCollected all those scattered Blast Shards in inFAMOUS 2
I’m nearing the end of inFAMOUS 2–sorry, quick aside, but I previously wrote the game’s name as inFamous 2, and the copyeditor in me will not rest until I owned up to the error and corrected it going...
View Article2013 Game Review Haiku, #18 – inFAMOUS 2
Cole: ice or fire Stop the Beast, cure the sick, save New Marais, shocking – These little haikus proved to be quite popular in 2012, so I’m gonna keep them going for another year. Or until I get bored...
View ArticleHow do you pronounce Serge in Chrono Cross?
Yesterday, I finally got around to kickstarting my goal of finishing these five videogames some time this year, starting off with Chrono Cross. It’s an RPG I’ve played countless times before, but...
View ArticleYou say you want a Tekken Revolution
Last night, I switched on my DownloadStation 3 to see what I should grab next and add to my growing digital collection of games that I worry I’ll never get time to actually play. Yes, first-world...
View ArticleMean gnomes, friendly fire, tenacious towers, extra elements, and goliath...
Alas, I’m still not in a place to really write at length about the videogames I’m playing (or thinking about playing). Y’know, unless that writing is really short and in the form of a haiku. This hard...
View ArticleFriendly fire is not be tolerated in Battlefield 3, so they say
When it comes to war-based videogames, I’ve always kept my distance. This is a twofer: a severe disinterest in using a digital gun modeled after a real-life version and shooting a digital person...
View Article2013 Game Review Haiku, #30 – Chrono Cross
A boy must travel Between worlds, fight the Darkness What a vague ending – These little haikus proved to be quite popular in 2012, so I’m gonna keep them going for another year. Or until I get bored...
View ArticleDragon Fantasy (Book 1) grinds just like the old days
The open honest truth is I never really played much of the old Dragon Quest games. Or even the early Final Fantasies, for that matter. Well, not until pretty recently. It does not–and did not–stem...
View ArticleThe good, the bad, and the grind of Dragon Fantasy (Book 1)
So, I beat Dragon Fantasy (Book 1) recently, as well as earned all of its Trophies, which makes it the first game on my long list of mostly untouched PlayStation 3 games to have a shiny 100% next to...
View ArticleNot bluffing over Poker Night 2′s poor performance
Last month, I dipped my big toe into the videogaming poker pool with World Series of Poker: Full House Pro, which is basically a poker game captained by Avatars with some cosmetic-only items to earn...
View ArticlePretty late to the Joker’s party in Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: Arkham Asylum came out in 2009 to nearly unanimous praise, and four years later, during a PSN summer sale, after consecutively not experiencing Rocksteady Studios’ take on the Dark Knight year...
View ArticleThe Half-hour Hitbox: October 2013
I can’t believe we’re already on the third iteration of this passably new Grinding Down feature, which, in retrospect, I should have put together years ago. The months surely do seem to be flying...
View Article2013 Game Review Haiku, #36 – Batman: Arkham Asylum
Bats is late for the Joker’s party, let’s just blame Those Riddler trophies – These little haikus proved to be quite popular in 2012, so I’m gonna keep them going for another year. Or until I get...
View ArticleHaving trouble surveying the score in Grand Theft Auto V
I slip back into Grand Theft Auto V every now and then to drive around aimlessly, look at a few jokey billboards and websites on the game’s internal Internet, and do a main story mission or, at the...
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