Kingdom Hearts: The Story So Far I’m drawing a blank as to how this writeup developed. More specifically, I don’t know what made me wake up one day and say, “I want to replay Kingdom Hearts and finally play Kingdom Hearts II.” Back in the spring, I taught a video game theory course (it’s totally fun). One of my students
Lost Odyssey It’s been a hot minute since I’ve posted on the blog. I want to write more, but work and research often get in the way. Still, I’ll aim to be a bit more consistent in the coming months. This time around, I took stock of my Xbox 360 JRPGs. During the seventh-generation console war, I pivoted and picked
Introduction Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, happy holidays, and good tidings. Hopefully, you received some nice gifts, made some nice memories, or got to relax. If not, well, I hope there were some nice opportunities to day-drink. Christmas officially started my transition into the next generation of game consoles as I received a PS5. There are still quite a few
One of the better Lovecraft games currently available is deeply flawed. If you can look past these issues, you’re in for a fun gaming experience. Introduction: Vote for Cthulhu Fall weather here is bizarre as we just had our first snowfall. While the leaves are changing and I now have to deal with 30-degree temps, let’s review a game! Like
Some Fall Housecleaning “Now we’re into the dregs,” as Principal Skinner might say. Bonjour. It’s my goal to play some spooky games this Halloween season, but I attempted something different for this writeup and reviewed some deleted games from my PS4 to close out September. I honestly can’t tell you when I purchased any of them, but they were taking
Keeping The Lights On Well, damn. Has it really been 2+ years since my last blog post? I guess it’s time to dust off this Pooh Corner since I’m paying to keep the lights on. There have been quite a few updates since April 2021. First, I’m still teaching and enjoying my courseload. Second, my book, The History and Allure
4/19/2021 Update: Sony reversed course and will keep the PlayStation Store open. Maybe we’ll eventually get true backward compatibility out of this, but that’s probably way down the road. Downloading the following games is no longer urgent, but keep this page in mind if you have some bucks to spend. Pour One Out for the PS3, PSP, and Vita Most
Valkyria Chronicles Digital war is hell, man. Both of my grandpas served in World War II, and I occasionally picked their brains about their service as officers before the Air Force became its own branch. For the most part, they were open about their roles since they never (to the best of my knowledge) experienced frontline combat. One of my
Final Fantasy VII Remake I, uh, guess we’re going to be here for a while… Testing. Testing. Is this thing on? The domain seems to be updated. SSL was recertified. Hey, I even see some comments! Huh. Everything seems to be working properly. Guess we can take the tarp off this site. 2020 turned into quite the ordeal. Suffice it
Resident Evil 3 That feeling you have when the other reviewers were right. It was probably obvious in my review of the Resident Evil 2 Remake that I’ve always loved the Resident Evil series. While 4 is my favorite, 2 (or the remake in this case) is my second favorite. That leaves 3, which has always sort of been in