Category Archives: videogames

The Online Shooting Robots

My wife and I have been watching a ton of anime together recently. She’s been going through the streaming options on Crunchyroll and Netflix and finding new series for us to watch, and her recommendations have thus far been spot … Continue reading

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ICHIBAN WA MEEEEEEE

The Oneechanbara series aren’t exactly art games.  Really, they’re a raised middle finger in the direction of every well-meaning crusader, from Fredric Wertham to Tipper Gore to Jack Thompson, who has ever tried to SAVE THE CHILDREN from the evils … Continue reading

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I Think I Can Maybe Live Without Half Life 3

So, finished playing through Half Life 2 tonight, my fourth time through the game which says an awful lot for how much I like it. It was my first time through since Valve patched in Achievements, which I found really … Continue reading

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Plastic Heroes

I’m still playing Demon Gaze, and it remains a terribly enjoyable game. The level of fan service has dropped off considerably as I’ve gotten further into the story and dungeon crawling, so I suspect that it may have been front-loaded … Continue reading

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Song of Saya : Dear God, That’s Bleak

I’m not the best person to talk about visual novels, because it’s a genre that I rarely have patience for.  While it’s probably unfair, I associate them with the old “Choose Your Own Adventure” books, which were 99% horrific endings … Continue reading

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I have a new shiny thing

So, like I mentioned the other night, I’ve been playing a Vita RPG called Demon Gaze.  I have a portion of our house that I’ve set aside as a gaming station, so it has a nice comfy chair from Ikea, … Continue reading

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Just Another Amnesiac With A Mysterious Past

Sony portables have been pretty much rhythm-game machines for me for the better part of this year, so it’s something new to find myself playing Demon Gaze, which is essentially a very pretty take on the Wizardry / Might & … Continue reading

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In which, Nintendo attempts to drain my wallet

I have a dirty confession to make: I bought Disney Infinity 2.0 a few weeks ago and haven’t played it once. It might, in plain fact, be an amazing game, or it might be awful, but it honestly doesn’t matter, … Continue reading

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Call of Mitchell: Advanced Mitchell: The Mitchelling

So, as I mentioned a few days ago, I bought the latest Call of Duty game, or at least tried very hard to buy it in the face of a corporation determined to give it to me for free, and … Continue reading

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I’ve become one of THOSE guys.

Oh dear. I may be becoming part of The Problem, where I define The Problem as people who take videogames too seriously for their own good. I was playing through a couple of songs in Project Diva f during my … Continue reading

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