electricviking
Member since Dec 6, 2025
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All reviewsLEGO Island1997
3 out of 5 starsLEGO Island is one of the first video games I ever finished as a young person. It may have been the first, though I spiritually let Star Fox 64 have that spot. Looking back, considering my own time with the game decades ago as well as a classic Giant Bomb piece of coverage led by Drew Scanlon, LEGO Island sticks out as charming, surprisingly expressive children's media that probably isn't worth sharing with your own…
Super Rub 'a' Dub2007
3 out of 5 starsThis game apparently developed a decent meme following over the years for being a real piece of shit. It sure does have a lot of demerits when you look at the back of the proverbial box. It's a PSN exclusive from the murky early years of the PlayStation 3. The art style is simple, even dull. It predates the advent of trophies on Sony platforms, so in this day and age you're playing for token glory on basically dead…
LocoCycle2013
1 out of 5 starsStars and garters, dear readers. The Xbox One's launch is already codified in the history of our hobby as a large, hubris-driven snafu. From Don Mattrick's tactless dismissal of always-online concerns, to months and months of "900p-gate" nonsense, right up to the rocky rollout of Halo MCC, it was a free for all of bullshit for what felt like an age. And yet, even if the launch had been perfect, LocoCycle would have…
Astro Warrior1986
3 out of 5 starsAstro Warrior, released in late 1986 as a standalone game, is shockingly slight. That's not necessarily a bad thing for a first party Sega shmup sitting in that .zip directory full of Master System games you "found" online, but the idea of paying a new game price for Astro Warrior is comical. So much so, in fact, that Sega cottoned to this truth internally; thus Astro Warrior is more likely to be found bundled with…
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All articlesThis is farewell.
May 3, 2025
I started undergrad in August 2007, a little bit before Jeff Gerstmann and GameSpot parted ways. I discovered Giant Bomb in 2011, about a month before I received my Bachelor's Degree. I was updating a computer lab and actively dropping out of grad school when I learned of Ryan Davis' death. I shepherded the Giant Bomb Community Endurance Run for its first few years before @thatpinguino stepped...
Viking Strike 03
Mar 24, 2025
Oh no, he's doing it again. ****** Max Payne (Finished) Max Payne remains technically impressive, if nothing else. Hardcore Gaming 101 recently did a podcast episode on Max Payne, which reminded me that I had a half finished save file on my Xbox. So I’ve gone back and finished a game that I wasn’t particularly enjoying already. Final take? It’s just okay. It’s interesting to go back to pre-San...
NamCompendium 17: The Tower of Druaga
Mar 20, 2025
Editor's Note: This was originally posted to the NamCompendium blog in May 2020, aka the Before Times. It has been modified to fit your screen. The Tower of Druaga June 1984 (ARC, Japan) The Tower of Druaga is one of those “important games”, a pesky class of entertainment products which, while not really “fun”, were groundbreaking and/or influential in their day. Druaga was groundbreaking, and...
Viking Strike 02
Mar 17, 2025
Round Two. Fight! ****** Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Finished) Notably, this is the first AC game where I've not synchronized every view point. Maybe I'll go back and do this? The worst feeling in the world is playing one of these contemporary AssCreed games, stealthing up on a target, pressing Y to Instakill, and seeing a health bar go down by *only* 80 percent or so. It’s the kiss of death. Not...
NamCompendium 16: A Tale of Two Sequels
Mar 13, 2025
Note: This is adapted from a blog posted from June 2019, back when the hills were young. Some edits have been made. Another NamCompendium entry, and two more games up for consideration. And by god, hopefully the turnaround time on these won’t be as long as the last piece. (Editor's Note: This is just hysterical to me in hindsight). The two games on the docket today represent two different schoo...
Presenting, Viking Strike 01
Mar 10, 2025
I’ve been tutoring people for about a year now. These folks have come from different walks of life, have been in different parts of their academic journey, and I’ve done my best to improve my craft along the way. Something I wind up telling clients a lot is, “The best assignment is the one that’s turned in.” We can work with ugly, we can grade a compromised assignment, we can incorporate negati...
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