Oliver Shellding
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While I enjoy the Castlevania series a pretty good amount, I don’t think I have the same degree of fondness that others saturate themselves in. I gave Bloodstained a try, and it was fine, nothing particularly great or awful about it. I acknowledge the legacy that is Symphony of the...
Anchorman is not for everyone, and I accept that. A movie that I loved to death when it hit me at the right time in life, I get that the style of humor, and madcap delivery of lines and visual gags can be annoying for some. Which is why I...
Pocket Trap positively charmed and won me over last summer when I laid hands and eyes on Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo. The game, which is so heavily GBA-inspired in design and execution, had the perfect little demo of dungeon-adjacent exploration, puzzle solving and some witty dialogue to make the...
There are times where we must contemplate death and whatever we think, believe or hope comes afterwards. The entirety of human consciousness has hinged on how we have taken that existential concept and used it to drive our actions. As a result, people have come to act, react and progress...
One of the best things about eating at McDonalds is not thinking about it. If you really take a moment and contemplate everything that goes into fast food – exploitative working conditions, factory farms that are nightmarish in quality, and that movie with Michael Keaton – you’d turn around and...
When I first picked up Labyrinth of the Demon King, I immediately went into a pretty serious downward spiral of doubt and self-loathing. After all, I’ve been playing video games for over three decades, and the last couple of weeks are probably the least amount of time I’ve spent with...
When it comes to titles from NIS America, I doubt anyone is going to list Phantom Brave as their favorite all time. To be fair, it’s not a terrible title by any stretch of the imagination: a fairly decent SRPG with cute characters and a whimsical approach to summoning and...
It’s important to remember that supergroups still work and produce excellence. Not everyone is emphatic about Temple of the Dog or The Highwaymen, but they should be because the result is incredible. Did ya’ll forget that ABBA is a supergroup? The point is, when you bring top talent together in...
Star Overdrive
It’s been said, by many people, that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. To some degree, that can be true: after all, if a product, design or style wasn’t worth copying, then it would be ignored. As KMFDM put it: Let’s stop saying, “Don’t quote me,” because if no...
Inti Creates seems to always have their fingers in the most interesting creations. Azure Striker Gunvolt is a fantastic trilogy exploration of the pixel art platformer, Yohane was a very engaging metroidvania all on its own, and Gal*Gun has its own warm, sometimes sticky place in all our hearts (some...
Just you, me, and like maybe a hundred of our friends, something real intimate.
Ever 17: The Out of Infinity is the next step in Kotaro Uchikoshi’s attempt to frame the importance of life. Life is unique because of how we each experience it. Despite what cynics might imply, every person gets to view, think and feel the way that reality washes over them...
