a blog about video games and culture from a guy stuck in the 90s!
Greetings and hello, newcomers and old readers alike. Perhaps you fall somewhere in the middle of those two extreme demographic ranges. Maybe you are a snow crab fisherman in your 40s, visiting relatives in New Zealand. These are only a handful of things that I have no way of knowing, because WordPress doesn't have a …
Continue reading Introducing to the Family, the PSP! A Long-Winded Tale
I am the proud owner of a new Playstation Vita Slim! It was a couple of months ago when I was planning on a full replay of Jak & Daxter, when I learned that there was the whole trilogy available on this mysterious system called the Vita. I Googled around looking for information about it, …
Continue reading Playstation Vita – Adventures on the Other Side!
If you know me personally or at least know what I look like, you probably can't imagine me spending an hour setting up and taking these pictures. But try harder - it'll be more ridiculous that way. In terms of my gaming collection, it's certainly been a good year so far! I have a love/hate thing with …
Continue reading Summer Game Hauls, Presented by my Amiibo Collection!
Score! I was a big fan of the first installment of New Super Mario Bros. It was a nice, welcome change to the franchise that felt very fresh, on all fronts. From the upbeat music to the updated happy factor in the game, I enjoyed it and have replayed it several times to completion. While re-organizing my Wall …
I gotta tell you - I haven't been this excited for a new game in a while. I wrote about Completion Armor a few weeks back, and the primary focus of that article was Xenoblade Chronicles. Upon finally finishing Dark Cloud 2, and noting it only took about a month of dedicated play to bang out 60 friggin' …
Continue reading Chronicling my Experience in Xenoblade Chronicles
Given my own personal playstyle, I tend to stay away from games that are "endless," at least in the sense that they go on forever, and when the combined time average on How Long To Beat is 131 hours... well, there are pretty low odds that I'm ever going to try out that game. I generally pass on …
