Socratic is a term which gets thrown around a lot in education circles, but I still think it can be a helpful one for distinguishing a kind of philosophical ideal–a community of learners pursuing truth in honesty, sincerely, in friendship and with courage…
“Show a little more respect…
For Faerie Tales…”
-Sydney Losstarot, Vagrant Story
The Capcom Beat ‘Em Up Bundle brings the arcade experience of yesteryear home PLUS some games never before released on home console!
Serialized specially for The Well-Red Mage, based on the podcast by Wesley Schantz
I got to sit down this podcast with the comics experts at Opinioneering to chat about Batman: Arkham Asylum.
Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday reminds us that even on the mighty SNES, some memories are better off left buried.
Serialized specially for The Well-Red Mage, based on the podcast by Wesley Schantz
“Enter at your own peril! Past the bolted door where impossible things may happen, that the world’s never seen before!”
-Dexter’s Laboratory: End Credits
Serialized specially for The Well-Red Mage, based on the podcast by Wesley Schantz “The…
It’s sheer perfection, my precious G Virus,
nobody will ever take you away from me,
-Dr William Birkin
Whatever happened to the Blue Bomber? This Mega Man X podcast revisits the grimdark successor of the Rockman series.
Mega Man 11 feels like going home. An old Rockman veteran critiques the latest Mega Man game with an eye on gimmicky gameplay.
You were talking about the physics of it… I think that Sonic 1’s physics are glorious… in Green Hill Zone.
-Normal Happenings
These are my 7 honorable mentions, the games that didn’t make it to my Top 111 list but should have.
These are the 7 most controversial posts I’ve personally written on The Well-Red Mage, for better or worse!
Home is where the heart is and I left my heart in these seven places. These are my favorite video game towns/cities/villages/etc.
My top seven superhero games are here to save the day… UP, UP, and AWAAAAY!
I guess I’m a real fan of Generation 1… these are my top seven favorite Pokemon!
With Gordon Ramsay-like culinary expertise and barely concealed existential rage, the Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage takes a peek at Overcooked! 2, which may or may not be as good as the first one.
These are my top seven favorite developers, and my favorite games from each one!
These are my seven favorite VGM composers, the musicians behind the games.
Marvel’s Spider-Man may just be the greatest Spidey film ever made, but with great hype comes great responsibility.
In this EarthBound episode, the idyllic vision of America, the death of innocence, the lost art of memorable NPCs, and more.
These are my picks for the must-have games that the PlayStation Classic should definitely include but probably won’t!
“I just had to escape, I just had to be free,
And I didn’t even know, I had a destiny…”
-Abe
Final Fantasy Tactics, the Dead Sea Scrolls, themes of equality and corruption, and how the heck you are supposed to pronounce “Beoulve”, anyway.
