The battle was fierce this time around! From enjoyably high-handed insults to calling in the fanboys to smear campaigns across social media, this might have been our most contentious Game of the Year event to date.
Year: 2019
This is the fourth in a series of reviews covering the recent Boss Fight Books Humble Bundle.
“I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the…
Good things come to those who wait — and those who pour an exorbitant amount of time and energy, blood, sweat, and tears into it, with patience.
The Reader’s Choice Game of the Year event is back and better than ever!
I never bothered to look it up or found out or anything, but why do you think they selected “EarthBound” to be the English, western name for the game?
This episode we dive headfirst into the horrors of a cult classic: Shadow Hearts, discussing how to win a game of hangman, the definition of cult classic, our take on Lovecraft’s works and Lovecraftian themes present in Shadow Hearts, purple prose and classic literature, anti-anthropocentrism and cosmic horror, the technical word for fear of dolls (never use it, please)…
“I think it will be a shame if we won’t be able to cry as we play our own game.” -Nobuo Uematsu
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
With the eighth sanctuary, Fire Spring, today we’ll complete the final note in the Sound Stone’s melody. Thus today’s will be a highly musical episode, so I could wish I were more knowledgeable on that subject, but at least I can play some clips of the songs under discussion and you can decide for yourself how far to go with my amateur musicology.
“Elysium is a perfect world, created by the Ancients thousands of years ago. A world of eternal youth… a world without disease, hunger or war.” -Yuna, Mega Man Legends 2
Hey hey! Come on over have some fun with our Crazy Taxi critique! What a wild ride. All I can say is: “YA YA YA YA YA!”
It’s time to get dark and gritty talking about DC Universe Online with fellow DC Comics fan, the Black Humor Mage!
In terms of historical and literary precursors here, EarthBound’s Lost Underworld clearly owes something to conventions established in the Hollow Earth sci-fi subgenre, starting back with Jules Verne again, his Journey to the Center of the Earth, and to Arthur Conan Doyle, with his Up-esque plateau of un-extinct dinosaurs in The Lost World.
At first glance, the participants in today’s struggle for digital dominance couldn’t be more different. In one corner, you have a Gothic-themed horror game and in other, a high flying ninja revenge quest. But a deep dive into these 8-bit classics reveal eerie similarities in design, control, and difficulty. How do these titles stack up in the crucible of Thunderdome examination?
“Like” if you remember Nintendo Power. Yeah the magazine.
Alyse Knorr opens her delightful Super Mario Bros. 3 by posing three interrelated questions: “Why does everyone love this game so much? Why do I love it so much? Why was it so incredibly successful?”
Like a great tapestry, vertical and horizontal threads have met and become intertwined, creating a huge, beautiful image.
Chrono Trigger, by Michael P. Williams, opens brilliantly.
I got to chat with my dad, the 16-bit one (@16bitdadblog), about Parasite Eve! We get into the differences in horror between the West and East and how Parasite Eve blends the two, how the story connects to the incident in Japan in the novel…
“Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.”
-Diogenes
That’s pretty germane to where I’m at right now with EarthBound, actually. Because Ness, where we left off, he’s about to be in a world of his mind’s creation. It’s sort of his dream or his imagination, and we’re going to see how he returns to the waking world, to real life, at the end of that.
In the name of Loric, King of the Elves, Demon begone!
-A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
Octopath Traveler is about convictions and traditionalism painted with heavy strokes and a new coat of paint.
Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now, Overcoming Shyness, and EarthBound.
If you like JRPGs or are a fan of mind-bending stories and Japanese culture, give this a shot, just be prepared to lose a significant chunk of your life to this video game epic.
Now available in ebook form through Amazon!
First, a word or two about who these books are for. For you, probably, if you’re taking the time to wonder about this at all. And, if you’re feeling generous, maybe for your brother or sister who used to play 8-bit Super Mario and Final Fantasy games with you at your old house growing up.
