Oliver Shellding
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There is mystery and terror in that which we do not understand. From the vast reaches of space comes ideas and concepts that the human mind cannot grapple with, and, as a result, can go mad with the attempt to slot it into something familiar or logical. We are surrounded...
There’s nothing stranger than someone trying to tell you they improved on your favorite dessert. Like, when it comes to chocolate mint ice cream, I simply cannot picture something better in terms of what I want when I’m interested in a sweet. For years, people have tried to show me...
I sincerely appreciate the three pronged emotional response that NIS is delivering with their Prinny Presents series. It’s equal parts boldness, fondness and almost unflappable brashness, if that makes any sense. It’s like going through your closet that contains all the clothes that you wore since you were born, and...
We’re heading into dangerous territory again as a gaming nation. I grew up in a time where every IP on the planet thought that publishing a video game was the path to untold riches, as the logic was “kids are stupid and they will play anything.” Now, I’m not saying...
One of the biggest reasons I loved becoming an adult was removing the need to do busywork or unnecessary research for things I wasn’t passionate about. Once I got to university, suddenly I was only studying what I wanted to study. If I was curious about a thing, I could...
Have you ever petted a chinchilla? For the love of God, don’t walk away from this analogy and stick with me. So there’s a chinchilla, this fluffy looking mouse creature that apparently can live to be twenty or more. It’s a doofy looking thing, very cute, but hey, it’s a...
Kirby is the one Nintendo character that I keep going back to despite deep, deep disappointment. For me, a bitter old man shaking my cane at everything that says 4K or VR, the Kirby franchise seemed to peak in the Game Boy heydays, when riding a hamster was peak whimsy...
The Nintendo Switch has become a safe haven for the titles that, previously, would have raised a massive number of eyebrows across the globe. Coming from a perceived “family-friendly” console, people often forget that Nintendo’s roots were all about the bizarre and questionable games that got released, specifically on the...
Rhythm games are a fickle, evil bunch of titles that I simply cannot stop playing. I was at the front of the line for those Dance Dance Revolution days back in the late 90s and early 2000s, and I mistakenly thought that smashing arrows was the same thing as being...
Infernax
One of the hardest things for a game to create is the experience of gaming as a kid. Many of the players who got their footing in the 8-bit and 16-bit eras are now fully grown adults, potentially with the income to get all the games to their heart’s desire...
The video game world is not a binary place of winners and losers. Whenever a title launches, critics like to dub it with ridiculous monikers like “The God of War killer” or “The Resident Evil rival.” But multiple games for similar/same genres can coexist peacefully, often without impacting the community...
Golf. The slow game. The businessman’s pastime. The only sport that is somehow both incredibly relaxing and insufferably stressful at the exact same time. I’ve played golf once in my life, generally enjoying it, but noticing that my lack of left handed clubs gave me a handicap that my fellow...
