Impressions

Paradise Killer – Joesph Joestar: Ace Attorney

My journey with Paradise Killer has been a strange one thus far. It’s only been a few hours and I’ve already run through the gauntlet of how I feel about it. On paper, it’s a fairly simple premise – solve a murder by running around the island and finding clues, investigating leads, and finally, present […]

In Search of Departed Slime: Memories of Dragon Quest

Dragon Quest XI is out in English and that’s just the tops. I’m really looking forward to revisiting my 2017  GOTY in the coming weeks and months. Last year, I was living a different life. This year a lot has changed for me: I have a kid now, I changed jobs, and I’ve moved across […]

Blues and Bullets – In For A Penny, In For Two-Fifths Of A Pound

  It’s a weird thing to start something knowing full well you’re starting something that’s likely never to be finished. Imagine another timeline where Stephen King dies after getting hit by that van and never finishing The Dark Tower series. It wasn’t but a few months after I finished the fourth entry in the series that King was […]

Drifting Lands – See You Space Cowboy

Drifting Lands is a side-scrolling shooter after my heart. It takes a side-scrolling shooter and adds in RPG and rogue-like elements and that should keep me coming back far longer than pattern recognition does. I stepped into it a few days ago and found myself backing away from it before I even got a chance […]

Not Your Grandma’s Crocheting Material

To say I was a little apprehensive about Kirby’s Epic Yarn would be making it sound like I had any interest in this game to begin with. As I would look through stores searching for a bargain that wasn’t in the ads, I would always pass right over certain games. Epic Yarn somehow got lumped […]

Fortune Favors the Bold and Death Favors the Dumb

26 June 2015 – Guadalajara, Mexico I sent my team to stop alien abductions in a city I can barely pronounce. Fairly straightforward operation – touch down, wipe out the aliens, head back to base. Colonel Ruben “Richter” Marquez and Major Zahara “Pox” Manana took shots and were out of service for a few days. […]

I Am the Arisen

Running out of the tower to the top of the fort as my party attempted to raise a gate for support troops while we were being chased by a sizable pack of goblins, we stopped dead in our tracks. As I turned around to survey our surroundings and to come up with an attack plan […]

How Precious Is Life? Dark Souls Doesn’t Care.

Platforms: Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 (playing) My video game time is something I treasure. As an adult with a wife and a small child, a full time job, and a career change on the horizon, those moments when I actually get to sit down with a controller (or portable system) in hand and enjoy […]