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Welcome to Gacha Hell Gacha, short for gachapon, is often viewed as an exploitative skinner box made specifically to spear whales and keep them in tow until they can no longer afford to play or break the line. That’s because it is. However lucrative it can be, general gaming news ignores it until a whale … Read more
And you may find yourself looking at this 2021 retrospective, dated four months into the year 2022. And you may ask yourself, “Is this moron serious?” And he may tell yourself, “Yes, he is.”
Game: The Forgotten City Developer: Modern Storyteller Available On: Xbox Series X/S, X-cloud Cloud Saves: Yes Played On: Series X, via streaming via Chrome browser and Samsung Galaxy S8 Completed: Yes Must Play, Try it, Pass?: Must Play I never know how much to give away in reviewing or talking about a game. Obviously, an article … Read more
There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In external horror films, the evil comes from the outside, the other tribe, this thing in the darkness that we don’t understand. Internal is the human heart. – John Carpenter The fear of the unknown. The dread of self-isolation. The psychological divide between ourselves and … Read more
It’s that time again. A time when we look back and reflect on the highs and lows that defined the year that will soon come to a close. As the first year since leaving the Kinjaverse behind us, I had a bit of a difficult time adjusting to new routines here in addition to whatever … Read more
Let’s just get this out of the way: I hate Kingdom Hearts. I hate the characters, I hate the convoluted story, and I hate that out of the billion possible characters we could have gotten that Sora – the poster child of “generic JRPG protag” – was somehow the most requested fighter for Super Smash … Read more
Like a lot of people, my first Fire Emblem game was Fire Emblem Awakening. Tons of my friends were into the game at the time, and I was constantly seeing fan art and comics about people’s favorite characters and ships. I can’t articulate exactly why, but I’ve always been a sucker for games with dating … Read more
When it comes to anime, no genre is more synonymous with the medium than Shonen. Having spent nearly three decades growing up beside it, one of the things we take for granted is just how much choice we have. The last decade saw the rise of several promising titles – many of which I covered … Read more
Gust’s Atelier games are JRPG comfort food. Candy-colored affairs with frilly character designs, goofy monsters and silly jokes. Where it’s far more urgent to make flour so the blacksmith can bake a cake for his daughter than it is to save the world. The first Atelier game I played was Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana, the … Read more
