So let me get this straight...I’m somewhere that could be full of CHAOS. I’m seeing freaking CHAOS. And oh yeah, I’m talking to a CHAOS. Okay, yeah, I guess that’s something I do now. I kill CHAOS...kill jacked-up CHAOS. I’ll probably KILL CHAOS next.

Gives me MAGFest Colossus Roar vibes.

I’m actually looking forward to some over-tutorialization as opposed to 2's under-tutorialization. I’m like 50 hours in, and I keep discovering new, very important things that were at no point explained to me, making strangled noises at my boyfriend and pointing emphatically at the screen every time I do. In order to…

Really the only thing I’m taking away from this article is the tragedy of a Shakespeare game that was to be...and now is not to be.

“Full time volunteers are paid a salary.”

I love sprites (though I’m 36; does that count as a “younger gamer”?). I think modern designers are doing such gorgeous things with pixel art and spritework that are stylized in a way that I find much more compelling then Unreal Engine eyeball tracking or whatever.

I kickstarted an RPG boardgame called Eila and Something Shiny entirely because of the art style and the fact that it starred a bunny, so I was actually surprised when I received it and discovered that it was a single player RPG boardgame. I initially felt disappointed, but I fell in love with the experience when I…

Nah, this is WAY more interesting than a bunch of new first person pew pew games. (Though Stray looks super neat.)

Sure, it’s not normal, but good luck getting a doctor to care about it. At LEAST 10% of people with uteruses have endometriosis, but it’s like running a gauntlet to get a diagnosis or treatment for it. Many doctors shrug it off, tell the patient they’re being histrionic, or suggest weight loss as a solution. I was…

Allow trash talk, but only in Shakespearean insults.

“Thou cuckoldy stale, hast thou blown’st the team’s objective once again?”
“If it be so, ‘tis due thy negligence, thou perambulating butt of malmsey wine.”
“Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?”
“I do bite both my thumbs at thee, sir!”

I’d watch that.

The Japanese voice acting is REALLY good at least. I listened to Serenoa say ONE line in the English dub, and I restarted the game at once with the Japanese voices.

My Great Regret now becomes the fact that I seriously considered picking up the 3DS port of Soul Hackers during the massive Atlus sale a couple of months ago, and then thought, “Nah, this sub-series probably won’t be going anywhere, and the systems look dated.” ALAS. I’ll have to remember to pick it up before Nintendo…

BOO, no couch co-op? I was so excited for a minute there. My boyfriend and I are huge Zelda nerds, but what’s the point if we can’t cuddle while murdering things with an army of bunnies together?

Yup, NA server. Aether>Faerie, too, which is pretty crowded on a normal  day.

I suspended my account in June after breaking up with my boyfriend, and I keep wondering when I’m going to restart my sub, and the answer seems to be “maybe in August with the server expansion”? Seems like I picked a good time to take a break.

I never buy a new console until a) there’s a JRPG on it that I can’t miss; and b) they’ve released the inevitable improved second gen version of said console. One of the delightful/unfortunate things about JRPGs being your preferred genre is that you always have a backlog because they all take 60-100 hours to finish...

This is legitimately interesting to me because I have tendonitis, and if it were practical to tie my boyfriend down and have him give me hand massages for two hours every day, I would. So, assuming this thing actually works, it honestly might be worth the price.

I’ve never seen this movie, so DDR lives on in my heart, and I own a PS2 and a CRT television for the express purpose of playing my (almost) complete collection of PS2 DDR games. I have quite a nice dance pad, but nothing beats the arcade cabinet experience.

This is TRAGIC. I went to GameWorks on my trip up to Seattle for PAX, and it had like...five different DDR machines. I consider myself extraordinarily lucky if an arcade has any DDR machines, but five? I spent hours pingponging between them, and I figured I’d get up to Seattle again at some point and do it again,…

Interestingly, back when I was still suffering from a debilitating gastrointestinal condition (that has since improved exponentially!), the only way I could get medication for it that I could afford was through a gray-market website with cryptocurrency. This was the only time I ever used crypto, and I was grateful for…