Super Mario World deserves all the accolades, praise, and awards heaped upon it for decades and here’s why…
Month: March 2016
“Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot. So my disguise must be able to strike terror into their hearts. I must be a creature of the night, black, terrible…”
-Bruce Wayne, Detective Comics #33
“Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can’t see the enemy.”
― Frank Miller, Batman: Year One
“Sometimes… sometimes I think the Asylum is a head. We’re inside a huge head that dreams us all into being. Perhaps it’s your head, Batman. Arkham is a looking glass… and we are you.”
― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum – A Serious House on Serious Earth
Today, I’d like to talk about an element of video gaming that is virtually not to be found among the classics. This is something that is a thorn in the side of modern gamers, something that reeks of calculated, corporate greed.
Today, despite my railings against the modern world, I set foot into the unknown waters of next-gen console gaming.
When life gives you lemons… prepare to be massively depressed. It can only mean everything you’ve ever hoped for has inexplicably been dashed into tiny pieces, microwaved till burnt, blown up and then vaporized by the surface of the sun. Today is the day the Man of Steel cried.
Welcome back to our countdown. Let’s keep exploring the deep dark greenwood and the recurring…
One of the chief ways in which a video game comes off as an art piece is through its use of music. And one of the recurring themes in video game music is the “Forest theme”.
Final Fantasy Tactics is one of the heavier and in some ways more realistic entries in its series. Haven’t played it? Heresy!
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
I’ve been through two PlayStation One’s that stopped working because of lens problems, two PlayStation 2’s, a slim and a regular black one, that just decided they had had enough, an Xbox that cried itself to sleep, a Gamecube that became a paperweight, and a PS3 that’s rapidly deteriorating and recently refuses indomitably to run even its own PS Store.
But you know what? My Super Nintendo still works. In fact, it works just fine. Works better than my PS3.
“I have an idea for a movie called ‘The Walken Dead’ which is about a town where, instead of zombies, everyone becomes Chris Walken.”
-Robin Williams
This is old news, but that won’t stop me from complaining about it. This weekend,…
“Xavier and his X-men wanted us to build bridges between man and mutant! But we can fly and swim and leap! We will have no need for bridges!”
-Magneto, X-Men #146
To be clear, I do, but I actually prefer the term “classic” over “retro”. Here’s why.
“Child of the kindly West, I have come to know, if more of us valued your ways – food and cheer above hoarded gold – it would be a merrier world.”
-Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit (1977)
“Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe–share their world at all costs.”
-Hideo Kojima
“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads…
“Dreams save us. Dreams lift us up and transform us. And on my soul, I swear… until my dream of a world where dignity, honor and justice becomes the reality we all share… I’ll never stop fighting.”
-Superman, Action Comics Vol 1 #775
I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
-Louis Armstrong, What A Wonderful World
“Unfortunately, killing is one of those things that gets easier the more you do it.”
-Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid
