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All reviewsSonic the Fighters1996
3 out of 5 starsLet’s get one thing straight right now: I’m not the kind of guy who is extremely knowledgeable about fighting games. I’ve played my fair share – all of the Virtua Fighters , every Street Fighter , and so on – but I wouldn’t say I’m terribly good at them. I know just enough to be a danger to myself. I understand what chip damage is, and if you hum a few bars, I can probably do a cross up – or at least know when one’s…
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed2012
1 out of 5 starsSonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed for the Xbox 360 is a great game. One of the best kart racers of our generation. Before writing my original review , I basically ended up clearing most of the game over the course of a week: I unlocked every possible racer, finished most of World Tour mode’s missions, and had completed the entire Grand Prix (even mirror tracks). But All-Stars Racing Transformed (ASRT) on the…
Anarchy Reigns2012
3 out of 5 starsI’m sure we’ve all bought at least one retro arcade game collection – for me, my most recent purchase was Midway Arcade Treasures Volume 3 , which contains a collection of racing games from the early-to-mid 90′s. When I initially got it, I was a little bit disappointed; all of the games included were almost insultingly easy and incredibly simple. Removed from the environment of the arcade, some of them barely even…
Dust: An Elysian Tail2012
4 out of 5 starsIf you don’t know who Dean Dodrill is, maybe I can’t blame you. He’s been in and out of the videogame industry for more than a decade, having worked as an animator on Jazz Jackrabbit 2 and having been one of the driving forces behind the never-released Jazz Jackrabbit 3D . As the story goes, Dean Dodrill simply sat down one day and decided he wanted to make a videogame all by himself. Four years later, we have Dust:…
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My Favorite Games That I Can't Stop Replaying
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All articlesVideo Review: Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric (and the year in review, a bit)
Feb 6, 2015
As of this video review, I am deadline-free for the first time since at least October. Though one could say that all of 2014 was nothing but one big long deadline. I made a conscious decision to produce more video reviews, which takes an excruciatingly long time to do thanks to my aged PC. It started with my video review for Sonic Lost World , after which I dove immediately in to doing a Game o...
A lot of people wanted me to make a Sonic Boom glitch montage, so I did
Jan 2, 2015
By far one of my most popular videos on my Youtube channel is a montage about glitches in Sonic 2006 . With the release of Sonic Boom, a lot of people have been wondering if I was going to a video for that. I've ended up committing to three (!) Sonic Boom videos, the first one being embedded above there. I also have plans to do a video review, as well as a second montage video -- I ended up wit...
Once Upon a Time, I Tried To Make a Horror Game
Oct 14, 2014
I've written on this blog before on my tendency, in my younger years, to generate videogame hoaxes . Famously, I got Kotaku to post about something I'd made, and spent the better part of 8 years banned from their commenting system, possibly as a result. I've struggled over the years to figure out what inside of me liked making things with the explicit intent of fooling people, and why I've pres...
I've Launched My Own Website: www.bltn.net
Aug 24, 2014
So, I dunno! I bought a domain and figured I need to throw something up on there. It used to just point to my Youtube channel, but instead I just used tumblr because it's easy to do stuff with and I don't have to pay for it. It has an archive of all my video reviews and I'll be posting other junk there too (blogs about games, etc.) Might do a backlog feature or something. Also has outtakes from...
My 10th Video Review: Mario Kart 8
Aug 6, 2014
Since video embeds still aren't in user reviews, here's my Mario Kart 8 review in blog form! In my completely objective, unbiased opinion, it is the best Mario Kart 8 video review you'll find on the internet! As always, it's surprising how long these take me I ran a poll on Twitter and Tumblr under the guise this would only take me a week to put together, and it ended up taking over a month! An...
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - The Video Review
May 3, 2014
There was a time where GiantBomb let you embed Youtube videos in to user reviews, but that time has seemingly passed. Despite responses from both Jeff and Rorie implying that removing video embeds from reviews was not intended, it would appear things are officially falling on deaf ears now . Or everybody's just too busy. Whatever! Either way, here's this. For those of you following my (much mor...
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