I have a hard time believing that sweet, adorable Yuna would fly around beating people up in a death match. Also, who would be monster enough to fight sweet, adorable Yuna in a death match?

I’m still trying to decide if it’s worthwhile for me to pick up a PSVR on Black Friday, as a bunch of places are doing a $100 off deal. That’s still $250, though, and that’s a lot of money for something that maybe I won’t play enough to justify it.

I AM SO READY FOR THIS MOVIE. Also, apparently I need to figure out where my nearest Target is.

Beautiful.

This is amazing article. I’d seen those Nancy Drew games on shelves when I was younger, but I always assumed they were boring hidden object games. I wish my 14 year-old self could have played them, though. Small me loved Nancy Drew. I read every book in the series my library had, and I wrote terrible Nancy Drew…

Nintendo is apparently much more woke than the state of Washington.

My partner and I bought World of Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy XV on the same day, and I taunted him with how much more enjoyable WoFF was than his bro game. He later agreed after finishing both games.

“The witch hat makes cats appear!” was the most important information presented in that trailer, and I think it was remiss of you to leave it out of your otherwise excellent mini-review.

This picture looks so familiar, I thought. Then I realized: this is EXACTLY what part of a level looks like in Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon, an exceedingly weird Wii game I just finished. I didn’t realize it was based on a real place!

I’m playing Tokyo Mirage Sessions on my Wii U right now, and the map on my Wii U screen is incredibly useful for navigating dungeons and I love it. I didn’t get a Wii U until the Switch was out, and I’m very fond of the weird thing. It’s too bad it died before its time. Playing RPGs with a nice map on my lap is great.

There is an impressive amount of nerd paraphernalia at Spirit this year. Every time I go in there I have been deeply tempted by the keyblades, because they have keyblades. Surprisingly nice keyblades. If there’s one left on Sale Day, I won’t be able to resist.

Sigh, oh, FFXV. The Final Fantasy that so barely acts like a JRPG that I’ve only played 15 minutes of it before giving it the side-eye and going back to World of Final Fantasy, a shameless nostalgia cash-grab that somehow still managed to be a more enjoyable RPG experience than XV. Still, as XV is technically billing…

One of the reasons I stick to my JRPGs is that they are done when I get them, and any DLC that gets released later is just some extra sprinkles on my already delicious cake. The only exception I can think of to this is when an RPG that turns out to be too easy (like Blue Dragon or Ni No Kuni II) gets a difficulty…

Make-up is so. Much. Work. And make-up is so. Expensive. It’s also complicated and difficult to put on in a competent manner. I wore it most of the time as a younger woman, but now in my 30's, I’ve really stopped giving a shit. I have a lot of hobbies. I’m not going to spend half an hour in the morning putting on…

I think “I want to be a Youtuber when I grow up!” is simply a modern version of “I want to be a famous actor/sing/dancer when I grow up!” Kids see Youtubers, and that’s this generation’s definition of fame and success.

Is it standard for higher-end arcade sticks to have R3 and L3 buttons, or is this a newer innovation? I bought a low-tier Madcatz Fightstick Alpha about a year ago to see if using it instead of a traditional controller would help my carpel tunnel. It has and I find it so much more comfortable to use than a traditional…

As a fellow English major, I think Arnheim is the perfect amount of windbag.

I have mostly steadfastly ignored the later additions to the canon. Harry Potter was an important part of my childhood also (I suspect we are close to the same age), and I honed both my writing and my (poor) social skills with years of obsessive Ezboard Harry Potter role-playing. Now, as an ostensible grown up, I am…

Nooo, I love my 3DS! But to be fair, sometimes I think I’m the only gamer on the planet who loves playing games in MagicEye-style 3D.

I think it has less to do with Puritanical values and more to do with the weariness that female gamers have with the breast-based assumed male gaze that these sorts of character designs seem to cater to. Every time I see breast physics like this, I think either, “That’s not how boobs work,” or “God, that looks…