Oliver Shellding
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Somebody’s favorite game, of all time, is Glover. Yes, the 1998 Nintendo 64 title that got remade into a middling PC port a couple years back sits atop someone’s list for the GOAT platformer. There could be any number of reasons for this (TBI, parents are both gloves, etc.), but...
Very often, it bothers me when people recommend going into a game blind. The concept is clear: you want to make sure someone experiences a grand, epic revelation without spoilers or another person’s influence. But some people need to at least have a rudimentary idea of what to expect when...
Mario Party is my far and away favorite franchise, to the shock and dismay of my 15 year old self. As much as I adore JRPGs, I’ve had too many games that disappoinetd me. Yet even, the most banal Mario Party title has enthralled me in one way or another....
It stands to reason that you’ll get massive tie in games around the world. After all, Rugrats wasn’t as big in Japan as it was in America, but we still have a digital release of the latest adventure all the same. So, while Crayon Shin-Chan might only register for most...
JRPGs are a genre where I feel the middle ground might as well be the bottom. As much as I love them, you either find games that are exceptional and stick with you forever or ones that simply don’t. The reason that people keep circling back to Chrono Trigger, Dragon...
When I first received FAIRY TAIL: Beach Volleyball Havoc, I immediately began thinking of when I could play this without anyone I knew or cared about seeing me. I only knew two things about FAIRY TAIL, and both of them were Lucy, so a game based around swimwear was alarming....
Bakeru
The tanuki is Japan’s perfect hero vessel. You’ve got a mythical beast that’s also a real animal, but given plenty of mythical properties in lore and stories. Shapeshifting is so underrated, and giving that ability to an entire tribe of cunning bastards is the best bad decision I’ve seen since...
Tomba! is a fantastic reminder to players everywhere that metroidvania games don’t always act and look the way you may think they will. Sure, you’re going to have some titles that have adorable protagonists, puzzling mechanics or are just plain inscrutable, but still look the part once you break things...
There’s a quote by T.S. Eliot that almost no one uses: “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” That’s because it’s a bit clunky and heavy-handed, and sometimes takes a bit to extrapolate the meaning. Steve Jobs, meanwhile, then took that quote, changed it, and misattributed it to Pablo Picasso: “Good...
It’s so hard to look at summer now and feel that it’s anywhere as good as it was when I was a child. From the age of five to eighteen, summer meant two to three months of open freedom, of choices, ideas, and possibilities that existed only in this window...
Nintendo has really been doing a lot to try to tap into the nostalgia market. More and more, we’re seeing advertising and positioning for new titles that try to capture the elements of the classic 80s vibe. You’ve got extreme commercials, merchandise that I would have actually bought as a...
Folks may never fully understand what it is to enjoy a title like Princess Maker. At its core, it’s a bizarre affair: suddenly doing a sim game where you dictate the life and choices of a young girl through adolescence and into adulthood. It’s something that, when taken out of...
