As an old-school JRPG player, I hesitate toward anime-themed games. Seems odd considering how I watch anime and spend too much time writing and thinking about it. But in the past, anime-themed JRPGs weren’t that great compared to the likes of Chrono Trigger, which acted as my old-school standard for anime-ish JRPGS. I’ve finished Final…
Category: Video Games
Anger, Gamers, the Brain, and Benefits to Gaming
In a survey of 1046 US residents who game at least 4 hours a week, some interesting data about anger shook out. Whether or not these data can be generalized is another question. In any case, the survey (Treanor, 2022) found the following data: How often do you feel extreme anger while gaming? xbox playstation…
Enders Lilies: Fun, Difficulty,Beauty, and Lessons
Enders Lilies stands a a beautiful game, but it became too hard for me at the end. Enders follows a young, pure priestess as she works to purify the horrors caused by the Blight, a mysterious energy and rain that corrupts people. To combat these undead, the kingdom turns the Blight into a weapon. The…
The Not-So-Future Problems of Cloud Content
Despite Google pulling the plug on Stadia, cloud gaming or gaming as a service continues to be the direction the gaming, movies, and anime (and manga for that matter) will move. There’s too much profit to be had and convenience for video gaming not to move this way. Video games as a service would allow…
The Internet’s Spoiler Culture
Every week, some upcoming video game is leaked to the Internet. Either you have an entire ROM (read only memory) drop of the game, or leaks of screenshots and gameplay videos. For old-school gamers like me, it’s nearly impossible to avoid spoilers with how prevalent they are on the Internet. You see, I grew up…
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond
Pokemon Brilliant Diamond remakes Pokemon Diamond on the Nintendo DS. I hadn’t played Diamond, so I went into Brilliant Diamond blind. This is my preferred way of playing video games. I was a gamer before the Internet was public. I grew up making my own maps for The Legend of Zelda and other games. So…