Who needs the charming, clever, and simple character designs of the original when you can have Lumiere 2.0: Just A Little Golden Man and Cogsworth 2.0: A Monstrosity.

My initial, highly nerdy, question: Will these games be canon in the MCU? Will another medium be added to the list of things I have to consume to get the whole MCU picture? 'Cause I'll play them for that very reason, goddammit! Like the sap I am.

Resident 4, despite its legacy and how gosh darned amazing it is , didn't actually sell all that many units when it was originally a Gamecube exclusive. It has since been ported to every console under the sun, however.

The big daddy of ridiculous, inexplicable, and idiosyncratic puzzles in Resident Evil is in Nemesis, where the mayor of Raccoon City has devised a secret compartment that can only be opened by swapping a crest found in a depression on an ornate fountain with a stone tablet being held by a statue with a mechanical arm…

Capcom were exclusively making Resident Evil games for the Gamecube for a time and none of them during that period really sold all that well. As much as I love the Gamecube, it was the wrong place for Resident Evil. Which is a damn shame because the series rocked around then. I still regard Resident Evil 4 and the…

I have to go to the bathroom…

Yoo-hooo, Mr. Tentacle-guy?

Back in the day, before the fourth installment, there was a period when the Resident Evil series was almost the poster-boy for stuck-in-a-rut videos game series'. It's funny that now, with two major overhauls under its belt, it has become one of the 'old guard' franchises with the most experimentation and reinvention.

I love a good deal of anime, never fell out of love with JRPGs, and I actually found this write-up refreshing. It echoes a lot of my feelings towards the first game, which I overall largely enjoyed despite not caring one whit about the story or any of the characters. I used to devour anime as a kid and teenager. These…

I've been a fan of that show since I was about 9, and Norton's Father Noel Furlong is so amazingly quotable.

Goro Miyazaki really needed his first movie to be a barnstormer, proof that he's a good director in his own right and not just desperately following his father's footsteps. As it turned out, Tales From Earthsea is by far the worst Ghibli movie and the only one of the entire catalogue that I wouldn't really recommend…

All ad libbed by Glen Howerton, which is just fantastic.

My gaming resolution last year was to get back into JRPGs and play a few that I've had on my to-do-list for years, which I only sort of achieved: Earthbound, The World Ends With You, Suikoden II. Not sure what this year's will be yet, but having recently replayed Day Of The Tentacle for the umpteenth time and loving…

As tragically brilliant as Dee is in the "The Gang Breaks Dee", Dennis always makes me laugh the most in that episode. His concurring breakdown at the end is amazing.

And Majora's Mask takes it a step further. After all the wedding jubilation during the end credits we cut to the Deku Butler weeping over his cursed son: a side quest that doesn't exist, a character who was designed to be someone Link can never save.

Though I will agree that This Is The End's one maybe had more context and worked as a punchline better than your average sudden-dance-party ending, but I still hated it and it was incredibly irritating.

That cover's kind of great.

It's going to be both an adaptation and a sequel. It's a bit mad.

My favorite games this year:
5. Firewatch
4. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End
3. Final Fantasy XV
2. Inside
1. The Last Guardian

I guess. Maybe. It seems way too hateful too often though.