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I Didn’t Hate Onimusha Way of the Sword But I Didn’t Love It Either
(This blog contains spoilers for Onimusha: Way of the Sword) When the PS2 released in the US, it felt like a huge magical leap. That in a short number of years we went from blocky polygons to amazingly rendered models and backgrounds felt like a dream. In truth it’s probably the hugest technological leap in the history of video games, between both storage increase and graphic fidelity. My older brother had decided he was going to go and get one. He was a lot older than me, and he had…
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An Ode To Odin Sphere: Why Leifthrasir Is A Perfect Game To Me
(This post contains major story spoilers for Odin Sphere.) Being that my online persona is ‘Prinny’ you’d assume that Disgaea would be my all-time favorite game. And you’d be correct at one time: Disgaea was my favorite game when I played it back in 2003. It just so happened that I first started to use the internet around that time…
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The Spider-Man Games Are Excellent Movies, But Okay Games
(This post contains spoilers for the video game reboot of Spider-Man, Miles Morales, and Spider-Man 2.) I tried really hard to transition to being a PC player. I finally got a rig that could handle most games I threw at it, and I was really happy with the results. Unfortunately, the world changed, and I was unable to get a…
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Dungeon Crawler Carl is Pretty Dang Good, But Not Great
(This blog post contains slight spoilers for Dungeon Crawler Carl Book 1.) It feels like the popularity of this series came out of nowhere and completely blindsided me. Sure, I’d seen the book advertised numerous times at a Barnes and Noble many times, and I even picked it up and read the blurb on the back. “This seems decent.” I…
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Hypercriticality is the Death of Enjoyment
The first ever Dynasty Warriors game, otherwise called Musou games, I played was Dynasty Warriors 4. These games are really simple in premise: You play as a warrior who is capable of mowing down tons and tons of enemies using simple button combos, and they don’t usually put up much of a threat, if at all in most cases. There…