Year: 2016
“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”
-Poppy Z. Brite
“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” –William Shakespeare
“These are two hungry dino-mights and they’ve got bubble fight’n fun down tight. You and…
I never dreamed that motherhood would be as simultaneously beautiful and terrifying as it…
Strip off your BVDs and throw your pants back on because today we’re running with Captain Commando and his “Commando Companions”. I kid you not, that’s canon.
Rage Mage Reviews! Rather than getting a true Final Fantasy, drunken has-been…
When was the last time you saw the 1987 NES boxing-classic Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! in…
Super Metroid is an iconic and foundational landmark in the history of gaming. Plumb the subterranean depths of this critique with me.
Is there water in outer space? Maybe space is water? I’ve seen 2001: a Space Odyssey. There’s some trippy crap out there.
Back in the ol’ M of arch, we here at The Well-Red Mage took…
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” -Lord John Dalberg-Acton
“To contemplate is to look at shadows.”
-Victor Hugo
“I wonder if aliens ever say: Do you believe in humans?”
-Anonymous
“When convention and science offer us no answers, might we not finally turn to the fantastic as a plausibility?”
-Fox Mulder, The X-Files
Super Mario World deserves all the accolades, praise, and awards heaped upon it for decades and here’s why…
“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.
