Oliver Shellding
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Mato Anomalies
It’s a wonderful and sad fact that the digital marketplace has allowed many a people to reach across the far distances and spaces to get mostly anything they want at any time. My parents live in the middle of nowhere, but they can still get Netflix, Amazon deliveries. and video...
Kirby has such a roller coaster dynamic across his various games. Sometimes he’s a ball of yarn, sometimes he’s a strong fighting machine, sometimes he spends most of his life on the back of a hamster because Kirby’s Dream Land 2 was a magnificent evolution of a franchise. Last year...
I have been playing video games for more than three decades now, and the effect games have on me comes and goes. There are titles that positively captivate my attention with ideas and presentation, and ones that simply raise an eyebrow in terms of tenacity and innovation. There are games...
Elderand
Anyone ever seen Pi? The debut film from Darren Aronofsky, this movie supposedly tracks the mental decline of a gifted mathematician who seems to see and experience pi everywhere. A bunch of weird things happen, like Jewish underground groups, people from government agencies threatening harmless protagonists, and a brain on...
It’s exceedingly hard to project a proper plotline into a first person dungeon crawler. For one, the core mechanics and presentation ask you to hold the plot in mind while actively separating from the stage: it’s like if a musical just had people wordlessly playing mahjong between songs. Over the...
Rhythm games are one of those difficult fields to navigate in terms of balance. On the one hand, a majority of the players will want to have the core elements properly presented: good soundtrack, solid mechanics, and an appropriate difficulty curve. There’s a reason that Pop’n Music maintains a good...
Being able to have 2000 years of history to pull from as reference points in your media is an advantage I never imagined when coming to Japan. As an American expat, I’ve been heavily indoctrinated with tons of books, movies, and games that circle around key moments of history for...
Some people enjoy turn-based combat simply for the thrill of the kill. Let’s be clear, when the mechanics are good or the graphics are gorgeous or basically anything can distract you from what you’re supposed to be doing (chores, work, funeral), then it’s easy to overlook the shortcomings. I may...
Stray
The obsession with cats that seems to permeate the internet can be exhausting at times. Don’t get me wrong, I love cats and would personally have a cat in my home instead of a dog, simply because of what the animals are. Dogs are adoring creatures who need a huge...
Very few people are going to be able to avoid the phenomenon that is Vampire Survivors. A game that seemingly came out of nowhere, this endless, indie roguelite has captured the hearts and minds of players across the PC base. Enticed by rave reviews from multiple big names, this Early...
Beacon Pines
A great story lives not just on the words of the author, but on the ears of the audience. There are hundreds of wonderful and exciting tales woven every day, and, for the fortunate few who hear them, they can decide how this new information will change their lives. There...
When you look at The Godfather III from a purely subjective space, you can easily see that the derision it received was unfounded, particularly as time went on. The story of Michael Corleone is encapsulated well in the first two movies, and the third, while interesting and expansive on the...
