Hi Jonathan. I'm Derek, the Designer on Ashen. Its awesome to hear the idea of Ashen appeals :)

I got this game as a gift thinking it would be "meh to OK" but it's actually quite good.

It's all fun and games until Nintendo re-releases the thing and it STILL demolishes the Vita in sales.

I am going to commemorate it by watching Independence Day...and Team America. Any other commemorative movies you guys watch for the 4th?

A new pilotwings would be neat. Honestly, the gamepad adds a whole new layer to a lot of existing games that lots of people are eager to see how it changes the game.

While I do enjoy burning petrol, I wouldn't drink it.

This post made me very happy - I usually (via roms) replay Soul Blazer and IoG every few years.

I played this right after your first article on Summer of Old JRPGS. I had to re-visit it. This is definitely one of my favorite SNES games.. FF4 being #1, of course. ;)

soul Blazer is my third most favorite game of all time (Behind Dragon Quest III and Dragon Quest VIII. I love the game and play it at least once a year. The game just fell together perfectly. The music is stunning and I find myself humming it to this day (thinking of the Mountain of Souls theme right now.) The…

Soul Blazer is one of my all time favorites, primarily because of the "tug" you described. It was an unusual and (at the time) unique and simplistic way to show how your actions were literally changing the world. The Dark Cloud series has a similar mechanic where you kill monsters to rescue pieces of the town that you…

SB is actually the only one in the trilogy I haven't finished. I did love the resurrecting the village bit-by-bit and discovering big or tiny things like a flower that will actually speak to you.

Soul Blazer is one of the first games I ever played and it remains one of my favorite games of all time. The music is great, the story is amazing - it's simple, but it's so well done. Instead of always getting a happy ending, some of the characters you've freed will tell you about folks who died trying to prevent the…

I don't care about particular franchise, but I'd just love to see Shigeru Miyamoto and Koji Kondo team up on a proper project again, with Kondo doing the entirety of the soundtrack, and Miyamoto serving solo as Director and Designer, just like in the good old days. Wishful thinking, I know they're both swamped with…