A while ago I had the chance to read and review Everything I Need to Know I Learned by Playing Dungeons and Dragons. Having zero familiarity with the book, the genre it comes from, or the author, I felt like I should try to get to know Shelly Mazzanoble a bit. What follows here are… Read More »
I was honestly less than thrilled when I got my copy of Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Playing Dungeons & Dragons. I probably shouldn’t say things like this, but one doesn’t always think clearly when working four different jobs. Everything is…kind of a self help book? Well, it’s about self help books…. Read More »
Sine Mora is a thing. And it looks a bit like distilled insanity. Let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves. This is going to be a horizontal shmup. It isn’t revolutionizing anything, but it may be taking it to a whole new level of crazy. I’m going to go ahead and quote the website’s… Read More »
So let’s talk about Jurassic Park. Not the weird Metacritic kerfuffle that’s come out of the game, but the game itself. I was pretty into Jurassic Park growing up, mostly because I was little and dinosaurs, yo. Seeing this, my loving parents acquired not one, but several of the Jurassic Park video games. I almost… Read More »
So let’s talk about Lord of the Rings: War in the North. And by that I mean let’s talk about college. Because that’s what this game reminds me of. See, during my undergraduate years my roommate pat had a PS2, and every year he’d get a pile of Spider-man and Lord of the Rings games… Read More »
A good zombie-based action game is kind of like a hot dog these days: it may be generic, but its generally satisfying and hard to screw up. That’s what really makes Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone so egregious; it takes so many potentially solid elements and delivers a poorly-paced, unfun experience that simply misses the… Read More »
Radiant Silvergun is a difficult game to talk about. Not just because it’s incredibly dense and almost incomprehensible from a casual perspective, but because virtually all of the people curious about it have already bought or spurned it. So I’m not writing this review for you. This is for all the folks like me, who… Read More »
Dead Rising 2: Off the Record is a weird game. It isn’t weird because of its blend of zombies and Japan, but because of what Capcom’s doing with it in this iteration. They’ve made a number of very odd departures from the core of the previous games. I’ve written before about how I largely consider… Read More »
