Oliver Shellding
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There’s a part of me that wishes I had never played Disco Elysium. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a phenomenal game that’s groundbreaking in several ways: the character buildout and social choices, the dialogue and off-the-wall decisions, and the incredible replay value that comes from approaching different angles. It’s a shame the developers got completely screwed, but they’re thankfully working on Hopetown now, and it looks like it’ll be a smashing success.
Look back at yesterday. You were just there, weren’t you? It was real and it was important and it was everything, literally everything, if your world. Now you’re here, in today, and yesterday is back there. Already a fuzziness begins to inhabit what was your thinking, breathing, all encompassing day, and you want to keep it strong and true. But the past is water in your hand: the tighter you hold on, the faster it seems to slip away. Our lives are the ever flowing river of joy and sorrow,...
Never before has so much been told in so few words.
Edmund McMillen has stolen weeks of my life, and I have let him. From the PC to my ill fated times on 3DS and iOS, and now my almost daily driver of the Switch, I have continued to play The Binding of Isaac for more than a decade, and I’m no closer to being finished than I was the first time I defeated Hush. For all the critique you can levy against the crass nature of the art and the perpetual nerfing that occurs (though Glass Cannon was really well rebalanced), the game has a nearly perfe...
Sometimes, I wonder if people would have better lives if we just let nostalgia remain nostalgia. We, as a species, love to wax poetic on the good old days, on how things used to feel and taste and smell. Some of it is fairly relevant: I haven’t seen an actual night sky since The OC was on the air, and The Pirates of Dark Water remains a top tier Western animation. But going back to some of the shows, movies and games of my childhood remind me they aren’t actually that spectacular, just a ...
Now that I have your attention, I’d like to speak with you about Pokémon.
And I’ll just put a happy little tree RIGHT ACROSS YOUR FACE.
And I’ll just put a happy little tree RIGHT ACROSS YOUR FACE.
Ya’ll, PopCap is dead and they’re not coming back. The maker of beloved puzzle games was absorbed by EA a while ago, and the franchises that we played to avoid doing work back in high school and college now no longer exist. It’s why we have things like Bejeweled Stars and why Bookworm hasn’t been heard from since Obama took office. But the core franchise, Plants vs. Zombies, still gets acclaim and occasional pushes to make it a thing again. Garden Warfare was decent, that weird mobile...
Simon the Sorcerer: The Search for More Money.