I don’t care that they’re Kratos and his son: they’ll effing freeze to death if they don’t dress up. They should also have puffs of condensation coming from their mouth. :P

There’s no justification to have no form of backup whatsoever for any kind of user data in this day and age.

Guild Wars was amazing, and I was so disappointed in Guild Wars 2 for departing from the formula, instead of improving on it. :(

“What if we made a game where you play Pikango, the traveling painter from Breath of the Wild?”

Did they take cues from Suikoden?

I still listen to it, and I have a few songs on a playlist that to which I happened to be listening today. ;)

I bet you never thought you would describe a game as Oregon Trail meets NBA Jam, and have it be the most accurate description you could come up with.

If you’ve never see taoist fable Tekkonkinkreet, you’re in for a treat.

“Use the Left Analog Stick to move around.”

Vanilla is a kink - albeit a common one.

What you describe also reminds me a lot of Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow. It’s a post-scarcity and post-death society where your backup gets DLed into your clone if you die, and the protagonist is trying to figured out who murdered him and why someone would do something like that to him.

Nintendo, why are you so insistent of making life hard for people who love your games?

Sound design is an underrated part of what brings a game alive. My husband works in TV and film, and he says it’s all about the audio: visuals distract but audio immerses. He’s not rapping against good visuals; he’s just saying that what creates the immersion is impeccable audio work.

Rorschach is a fantastic character, but he’s a homophobic, right-wing conspiracy theorist who loves to hurt people. He can be appealing in the sense that he’s uncompromising on his principles, but I definitely would not get along with anyone who shared his values.

Jeez, and I thought Empires in Arms was the heavy of heavy games!

You can’t make that list and not put Eternal Darkness on there.

Got into it near the end, after two unsuccessful attempts at getting through Act 1 (I know), and it blew my mind. There is nothing like it. Even though it has ended and it would be a different experience than reading it will the fandom was in full swing, it remains a seminal work of the internet age. It’s messy and…

If it can make you feel better, authorial intent doesn’t matter. In this case, as you said, FF8's story is far worse if Ultimecia is not Rinoa. My personal take on the theory is that there are actually two timelines: one in which Squall survived the time compression and we get the happy ending that is the game’s…

This game was a huge disappointment for me. I love Yasumi Matsuno, and I was excited to know he was doing a mainline Final Fantasy. But Vaan is a terrible protagonist and the gambit system is clunky as hell - it would have worked better and been more relevant if you could have had all six characters at once on the…

Scanlators are cultural heroes. They are people who love manga who work hard so that more people who don’t read Japanese can enjoy those works. They pick up works that years ago Western publishers would never have touched, especially when it comes to manga with positive depictions of homosexuality or works that are…