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Suggested musical pairing: Link's Awakening - Title Screen From the first second of the Link's Awakening remake teaser video, I knew exactly what I was looking at. It's no wonder, considering just how many times I've played through Link's Awakening, and the fact that it was my first Zelda game ever when I was a …
Continue reading Why the Link’s Awakening Remake Makes Me So Damn Happy
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)
Well, it seems everyone on the WordPress parts is busy these days! Which is great, honestly - being the summer time, I hope everyone is taking advantage of the warm weather! After all, it'll be cold and miserable again before we know it, and then we'll be wishing it was warm and.. well, "the grass …
Well, well, well... what do we have here? It's the revival of an old series where me and my faithful companion Munchkin, an EMPOLEON, thoroughly slash and thrash our way through Pokemon Pearl! Catch up on previous installments here: Pokemon Pearl: The Solo Piplup Run – Munchkin’s Journey Begins (part 1) Pokemon Pearl: The Solo …
Continue reading Pokemon Pearl: The Solo Run – Back on Track! (part 4)
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?
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
