Nice article again! I like how you systematically go through instances where vertical design is featured in the dungeon.

As for Minish Cap, I dunno. I played through it and had an excellent time, but it seems to be missing something to make it stand out among the many amazing Zelda games. It’s the type of “good”…

Most of my favourite games are sequels, which makes this choice difficult to make. Technically, my choice is probably something like Final Fantasy VI/VII (the two are tied for me) or Zelda: A Link to the Past, but I think that unrelated sequels should barely count. As far as direct sequels go (as in, sequels that…

Virtue’s Last Reward seems like a major omission to me. I’d certainly put it on a list over Majora’s Mask (a title I’d put on a list of the best N64 games instead). In any case, for systems like the 3DS that lived for well over five years and accumulated vast libraries of high-quality games, it seems incredibly…

Learn the ability to summon metal slimes and abuse it if you want to grind. Otherwise, you should just avoid grinding for the sake of grinding, as it really isn’t required in the game.

I’m not sure how much your specific needs apply to everyone else. Most people are not video game journalists who need to play through games as quickly as possible. That said, I don’t recall ever being bored while fighting enemies in Grandia or wishing that game had a fast-forward feature for combat. The fighting was…

That’s a stupid shorthand. There aren’t visible random encounters. What defines a random encounter is that it is invisible.

Suikoden II requires one major update (in North America, at least), and that’s a new translation. However, I doubt Konami will bother to port Suikoden II, much less improve its translation should they bring it over to newer consoles.

Every time someone says that a triple is more exciting than a homer, I feel obligated to say that an inside-the-park homer is exponentially more exciting than a triple (but people aren’t referring to inside-the-park dingers when discussing three-outcome baseball).

Hey, the 70s had great movies, at least. I can’t comment on the decade’s TV shows, though, as I don’t think I ever watched any of them extensively (and I have no plans to).

Sorry, but it’s really hard to tell which images are supposed to be the new ones. I’m guessing that the version where the characters look younger are the do-overs.

Personally, I think the older ones look better.

Vlad Sr. has 2500+ hits and hit basically every possible pitch location, so it is virtually impossible for Vlad Jr. to do anything with his bat that his dad didn’t do before. In the case of this homer, I’m just impressed by what Vlad Jr. did without needing to hear about his dad.

I got mad respect for Kershaw, but his presence on the Dodgers will always make me root against him in the postseason.

It’s a neat trick, but the amount of in-game manipulation is insane (like the part where the video skips 60 minutes of tedious coin cloning), and I just think to myself: I can get that star in a minute just by jumping. Interesting as this guy’s videos have been in terms of revealing the inner workings of Mario 64,…

There are three good things to do when it’s raining in Breath of the Wild:

1. Find a way to your destination that doesn’t involve climbing or abuse Revali’s Gale to cheat your way over obstacles.
2. Go somewhere else and finish a different task before coming back to the raining area later.
3. Complete the Divine Beast…

I bought a reproduction cart once, but it was clearly marketed as such and didn’t cost much (I just wanted to play the game). Sellers who swindle people by passing reproduction carts as rare games, though, are garbage.

I’ll wait until I see what the price is (hopefully, not that much), but the only game I want from this collection is Grandia II, which I haven’t played yet (I already played the first). If the price is fairly low, I’ll buy the first Grandia a second time if it’s what I have to do to get the sequel; if not, I’ll just…

Sorry, but any taco with a hard shell instantly becomes bottom-rung for me.

While I’ve had a blast with Three Houses so far, I view the lack of interactions with the house leaders prior to choosing a house to be problematic. I learned a lot more about Edelgard’s past in Chapter 6, many hours after I made the crucial choice, and I imagine the other house leaders have hidden depths as well…

Great. Now it looks like Toronto will suffer from a lack of competent pitching once these three sons work out their rough edges and get really good.

I still don’t get why baseball teams are so adamant that pitchers do not catch pop-ups near the mound, even in cases where the pitcher is obviously in the best position to catch them. That diving catch by Velazquez is a reaffirmation that most pitchers are excellent athletes, too, are more than qualified to catch the…