justin258
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3 out of 5 starsThis is one of a handful of games that I had never heard of before I bought it. I was just poking through the Switch online store, thought it looked kinda cool, and bought it! Turns out it is kinda cool! If it were any longer, it would probably get to be a bit of a slog. If it were any shorter, I’d probably have felt cheated out of ten bucks. As it is, this is a two to three hour Metroidvania that takes a few…
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night1997
3 out of 5 starsSymphony of the Night is often considered one of video game’s greats and it contributed the second half of the name for its genre, the “Metroidvania”. Unlike Super Metroid , though, this game hasn’t held up so well in the face of two decades’ worth of iterations on the formula, both within and outside of the Metroid and Castlevania franchises. That’s not to say that I don’t think this game is worth playing. It…
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin2006
4 out of 5 starsThe Castlevania series is pretty much split into two eras - the series’ original incarnation was linear, slow-paced, and notoriously difficult. Most of these games were on the NES or SNES, but some appeared on other systems. The second era made the second half of the term “Metroidvania” – everything takes place in one seamless open level with items and upgrades to gather, the games moved faster, the later games tend…
Prey2017
4 out of 5 starsThe developers at Arkane Studios are apparently very fond of the style of game pioneered by Looking Glass studios. Even the phrase “Looking Glass” is plastered all over their newest release, Prey , which might as well be called a spiritual successor to Looking Glass’s 1999 effort System Shock 2 . Arkane’s first game, Dishonored , was the same thing to Looking Glass’s Thief series. Some might be compelled to compare…
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All articlesI watched the Prequel trilogy for the first time in ages and had some thoughts.
Jan 19, 2021
So I finished watching the Prequel trilogy today. Yay! Good times. Somewhat. ...OK, so, The Phantom Menace. Let’s dive right in, ok? OK. The acting is really bad. It's been a long time and I don't remember ever noticing how bad the acting is here. This is a cast that should be able to perform far better than they do. Liam Neeson is in this fucking movie! That makes me think the problem wasn’t t...
Looking back at what I played in 2020
Jan 9, 2021
I played some Metroid Prime and wrote a bit about it
Sep 8, 2018
I finished one of my favorite games recently, Metroid Prime. I started writing a review for it, but instead wound up writing something that reads a lot more like a blog post (and a review would have just been five stars and me gushing). So here it is as a blog post. There are several games that someone might consider “landmark titles” for the Gamecube. Super Smash Bros. Melee, The Legend of Zel...
So let’s talk about Horizon Zero Dawn for a minute, all right? All right.
Apr 15, 2018
I think that Horizon does some things right. The most obvious and most striking thing about it is that it’s downright gorgeous, and that’s coming from a guy who spends a lot of time playing PC games. Guerilla games have implemented some insane technical wizardry before, to make games like Killzone 2 and 3 look miles better than anything the competition could dream of, but this is something else...
I watched all of Dragonball Z Kai and I have opinions
Mar 8, 2018
After getting into Dragonball Fighter Z, my little brother decided to buy all of Dragonball Z Kai. Unfortunately for him, he doesn’t have a blu-ray player at the moment – my parents are borrowing it – so I wound up borrowing the discs from him and found myself way into Dragonball Z. I have finished all 167 episodes of Kai and I have opinions. It’s Still Pretty Good, You Guys Dragonball Z is a w...
Games I Think Were Pretty Good in the Year of our Lord 2015
Jan 1, 2016
All right! So! I wrote one of these and didn’t finish it and then I wrote another and scrapped it and wrote a third that was just a reflection on the year and I think it’s maybe too negative to really post as a GOTY thing, especially since 2015 was such a great year for games. This time, I'm just making a top five list. That said, I do want to mention some games that from this year that I'm not...
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