Thomas Medina
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Medieval PC strategy games are a dime a dozen. Nearly literally as Humble Bundle frequently hosts packs of them starting at a dollar. Not bad games either, but genre standouts like Crusader Kings and Civilization. So when you’re making a game in arguably PC gaming’s biggest genre, you’re already on...
Tactics Ogre is the game I should have played, but never did. Shining Force is one of my favorite games of all time, Final Fantasy Tactics is the best Final Fantasy bar none, and Fire Emblem: Awakening is a modern classic. I love JRPGs, I love tactical strategy games, so...
While playing Marvel’s Midnight Suns, what it reminded me most of was Sonic Frontiers. Not because of the gameplay obviously, as it’s clearly extremely different. But in other more fundamental ways, they were sadly similar. Both games were announced to a lukewarm to negative response from their target audiences. Both...
Tetsuya Takahashi, creator and director of Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Xenoblade, is a creative genius. His story of success despite constant failure is an intriguing one I’ll do my best not to bore you with now. What matters is that ever since 1998’s release of the ambitious unfinished masterpiece that is...
As a kid, Sonic was the greatest. Mario was for nerds, and real gamers preached the way of the Blue Blur. Sadly, reality didn’t agree and Nintendo’s Mario emerged the victor of gaming’s bloodiest console war, absolutely crushing Sega and Sonic under his brown heel. Ever since then we’ve been...
Lost Eidolons
Fire Emblem has surprisingly and unarguably become one of Nintendo’s biggest franchises. And for good reason. Its strategic gameplay is simple, yet has tons of depth and complexity. And it was doing relationships long before Persona 5 made it popular. With that level of popularity though comes plenty of imitations....
As common as roguelike games are, few developers get them right. They’re among the oldest of genres that survived into modern gaming, beginning as they did in the 70’s/80’s with classics like Rogue, Adventure and Moria. It’s a formula that you would assume the gaming community would have down after...
Fire Emblem: Three Houses was a massively popular and successful game in a massively popular and successful series. Generally, I consider myself a Fire Emblem fan. I liked Shadow Dragon, LOVED Awakening, enjoyed Shadows of Valentia, and beat all three of the Fates games. For some reason though, Three Houses...
First things first. The demons in Demon Slayer are vampires, not demons. Muzan Kibutsuji is anime Dracula, not anime Satan, and you can’t change my mind. Living for human blood, special blood powers, and transference of power through the blood of a sire? Vampire, and that’s that. Now, for the...
How the mighty have fallen. From being one of the biggest names in racing games to just another EA subsidiary that lost it’s way. To be clear, I’m not blaming the EA curse in any way. Codemasters has long lost its way as a racing game developer with subpar game...
There’s nothing more epic than giant mechs and monsters duking it out. The scale, the devastation, the apocalyptic themes, there’s a reason the concept burns so strongly in pop culture. Optimus Prime, Godzilla, Ultraman, Gundam, fights are just so much more exciting when everyone’s taller than skyscrapers and somebody can...
Triangle Strategy wasn’t the game I assumed it was going to be. Since its announcement, all I’ve seen is “Final Fantasy Tactics 2″. So when I started to learn about the actual game, I was confused and worried. No Job System? No random encounters? Fixed recruitable party with no permadeath?...
