a blog about video games from a guy stuck in the 90s!
I don't remember when I first saw the trailer for Yonder, but right away, I realized it was for me. Following the discovery of Yoku's Island Express, a combination of relaxing play and beautiful visuals seemed like it paired well with me at the time, and just as Yoku did not disappoint, Yonder currently sits in my good graces. …
Continue reading Thoughts on Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles (Switch)
Gamers are a strange group of people. Music collectors don't subject themselves to music they don't like for hours on end, just to be able to tell people that they did. Cinephiles don't watch dozens of hours of films they're not enjoying just to say that they've "gotten the full experience." But gamers? Dump a …
Continue reading What Makes You Aim For 100% Game Completion?
I love Rayman. Since the day I booted up the original Rayman on my old Compaq Presario many moons ago, I had a weird fascination with the strange fellow. I first wandered into the world of Rayman in my younger years, naturally - wandering into a CompUSA I found a copy of the MS-DOS release …
With my recent purchase of Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc for the Playstation 2, I have officially lifted my self-imposed video game embargo! It's truly an exciting time - some great titles are coming up (or have recently come out), particularly for the Switch, and I'm feeling good about the next couple months. One thing worth mentioning …
A few months ago, after Christmas but before I fell off the face of the Earth, I decided to do something very simple to fix a problem I was having - I was going to stop buying games completely until I finished a backlog of games that I already owned. I had noticed a pattern in my …
Continue reading How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Game
A few weeks ago, Ian over at Adventure Rules has graced the blogging world with his next great event - Secret Valentine! The rules are not unlike that of Secret Santa, but each blogger who entered is paired with another fellow blogger at random, and to write an appreciation post about them, highlighting some of …
Continue reading A Happy Secret Valentine’s Day to…. The Gaming Diaries!
The WordPress community is certainly not shy when it comes to sending around good vibes, and I was recently nominated for the Mystery Blogger Award - twice! Now I'm generally not great at receiving these kinds of things so please forgive me if it's taken me a while to get a good response together. Truth …
Continue reading Celebrating Two Mystery Blogger Award Nominations!
