Very few games mean as much to me as Suikoden. While a lot of RPGs before this one influenced a number of things, Suikoden might be one of the finest role-playing game series I've ever played. Which might be an oddity as Suikoden, the original game, is not actually all that great. It forms a … Continue reading Game Reviews: Suikoden (1996)
Persona Q and Persona Q2 are games that're difficult to review simply because there's so much going on. Created as a type of fusion of Atlus' Etrian Odyssey dungeon crawlers and the rising in popularity Persona series, Persona Q is neither Etrian Odyssey nor Persona. It features a lot of the same features as both … Continue reading Game Review: Persona Q and Q2 (2014/2019)
I'm in a school assembly when a friend of mine brought out a Gameboy Advance, which he was playing this dark game on it. It was Castlevania: Circle of the Moon. It looked just like another well known game in the series, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. It had leveling up, exploration, and whip-based combat, … Continue reading Game Review: Castlevania: Circle of the Moon (2001)
I don't often start a review on this point, but jesus christ, Estival Versus is a game made in Hell and belongs there. Even on the easiest difficulty, this game is hard for all the wrong reasons. Minions, actual name, have way too much health and are far too numerous. And for how often enemies … Continue reading Game Reviews: Senran Kagura – Estival Versus
After doing the Castlevania Collection, I had thought there would be less aggravation to be found in the previous collection, featuring a mere two games. Those being Rondo of Blood, from the PC Engine, and Symphony of the Night, from the Playstation, though I think some of the Saturn content is included. I was wrong. … Continue reading Game Review: Castlevania Requiem
For my first thinkpiece, I wanted to ask a question. It was fueled by a picture, which I will show below. Shows used to be quick and to the point. At least in anime, way back during shows I loved, you could get an entire story across in a season or two. At around 26 … Continue reading Why do shows take so long?
I said before that the good momentum of the TMNT movies stopped with the last movie. Now, I did not intend to imply that this movie is bad. Just not a good successor to TMNT 1 and 2. Both movies were very good, faithful adaptations of the heart of my childhood, while TMNT 3 is, … Continue reading Movie Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)
If you haven't guessed, video game related media is kinda my thing. I love to see movies, read books, and the like based on video games I enjoy. So after enjoying the heck out of Persona 4 Golden on the PS Vita, I heard about Persona 4 The Animation. Simply put, it's an animated form … Continue reading Anime Review: Persona 4 The Animation
Few names are as endearing and maddening as Castlevania. As much as I love it, my hatred for it's parent company, Konami, is among my worst. A company that's a shadow of it's former self, Konami seems to be trying to drag itself back into relevancy with a number of collections, including an Arcade and … Continue reading Game Review: Castlevania Anniversary Collection (2019)
It's December 6th, 1990. My birthday. And the present I have received is a Gameboy with Tetris, Super Mario Land, and Final Fantasy Legend 2. The first kept my attention for a few minutes. The second was too fast and too hard. But the third was just right for me. This game is important to … Continue reading Game Review: Final Fantasy Legend II (1990)
The Professional Protagonist 