In the beginning, Final Fantasy really was supposed to be final. The last ditch effort to save an ailing company from fried doom. I guess it… worked? Twenty-two years later we’re staring down the barrell of the 13th installment of the main series, and it looks pretty freaking sweet.
Final Fantasy EX EYE EYE EYE is stamped [...]
Sometimes games just shit you right off. It’s not that they’re bad games, exactly, it’s just that they do bad things. Nobody really knows why they keep doing these bad things. Don’t they know they’re KILLING THEIR MOTHER?
1. Swimming/Underwater Levels
In real life, swimming is a fun and relaxing activity. In games, swimming is a way [...]
Assassin’s Creed. Sigh.
It really could have been a great game. Really. The idea of being a trained assassin in the Holy Land circa 12th Century practically hypes itself. I even liked the silly science fiction madness that framed the whole thing.
Unfortunately the game is best described as a flawed diamond. Or a very pretty piece [...]
Tetris has reached its mid-twenties. Recently the innocuous little puzzler reached its quarter-century anniversary to a level of fanfare appropriate to a block stacking exercise.
It was, of course, the introduction to gaming for a lot of people, and spawned a endless load of copies, rip-offs, pointless sequels, cosplay and a gameshow craze. Not bad for [...]
Today I’m going to be a complete asshole. First I’m going to tell you about two fantastic PC games from a bygone era, ones which should really be played by everyone. Classics. Then I’m going to suggest that you go out and buy them as soon as possible. And when you go out to find [...]