I love The Witcher 3, but don’t like Dragon Age: Inquisition. I can’t get into most JRPGs, but I kind of like Paper Mario: Sticker Star. I’m a huge Legend of Zelda fan, but I’ve never loved the original. The Super Nintendo is my favorite console ever, yet I don’t think I’ll ever finish Super Mario RPG or Super Metroid. … Why am I like this?
Browsing: Op-Eds
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was officially unveiled during E3 this morning at EA Play. While there are bound to be plenty of observations taken away from the game based on its 15-minute, unedited gameplay segment, I have a few burning thoughts… and they’re not great.
What Happens When You Play a Game Decades After Its Height? Here’s something that everyone on this planet has experienced: Somebody is telling you a story with great enthusiasm hoping to elicit a certain response…
Daaaaaaaaamn, Nintendo, Back At It Again With the Sexist Design I love Fire Emblem. I really do. For all the plans I have for articles that will seem to contradict that, Fire Emblem is the…
Examining the Best and Worst of Romance in Games Happy February! Valentines’ Day recently came and went, and Anna and I decided to celebrate in the traditional fashion—arguing! We have pretty different opinions on romance…
Super Smash Bros. Melee and Ultimate Can, and Should, Sustain Each Other Going Forward Genesis 6, the latest in the long-running Super Smash Bros. super-major series, came to a close at 3 a.m. Eastern on…
Big Predictions for the Biggest Night in Games Correction: Don’t expect to see The Last of Us Part II Thursday night, as Naughty Dog recently tweeted that they don’t be showing anything from the title at…
Disclaimer: This game is super long and I have so many thoughts about it, and there’s just no way one article can encompass all of those thoughts. Red Dead Redemption 2 might very well be…
Meet the Newest Generation of Platform Fighters The “platform fighter” genre has existed for decades, even if the specific phrase to describe them didn’t reach mass relevance until years later. For the longest time, it…
Cuphead Animation—the Good, the Great, and the Amazing Before we begin, I need to give a huge thank you to Cuphead animator Jake Clark for posting some of his wonderful pencil tests of the game’s animation…