Oliver Shellding
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Tomba! is a fantastic reminder to players everywhere that metroidvania games don’t always act and look the way you may think they will. Sure, you’re going to have some titles that have adorable protagonists, puzzling mechanics or are just plain inscrutable, but still look the part once you break things...
There’s a quote by T.S. Eliot that almost no one uses: “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” That’s because it’s a bit clunky and heavy-handed, and sometimes takes a bit to extrapolate the meaning. Steve Jobs, meanwhile, then took that quote, changed it, and misattributed it to Pablo Picasso: “Good...
It’s so hard to look at summer now and feel that it’s anywhere as good as it was when I was a child. From the age of five to eighteen, summer meant two to three months of open freedom, of choices, ideas, and possibilities that existed only in this window...
Nintendo has really been doing a lot to try to tap into the nostalgia market. More and more, we’re seeing advertising and positioning for new titles that try to capture the elements of the classic 80s vibe. You’ve got extreme commercials, merchandise that I would have actually bought as a...
Folks may never fully understand what it is to enjoy a title like Princess Maker. At its core, it’s a bizarre affair: suddenly doing a sim game where you dictate the life and choices of a young girl through adolescence and into adulthood. It’s something that, when taken out of...
Until Then
One of the reasons that I adore visual novels is their ability to evoke emotions in ways that just hit differently than other games. With platformers, fighters, and adventure games, you get the thrill of victory and the agony of being terrible. With modern RPGs, there’s a wide range of...
I cannot overstate how important the gaming ecosystem of the 90s was for the current state of consoles. Fighters, JRPGs, sports games and more made their foundation here, and, for better or worse, evolved from that point. The sidescrolling titles of the 16 bit era are fondly remembered, and they...
While installing Read Only Memories: Neurodiver, I took a moment to go back over my thoughts for the original 2064: Read Only Memories. A game that underwent a hellish cycle of re-releases and public scrutiny, there were so many things I enjoyed, namely the world, the style, and the soundtrack....
Understanding the importance of Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord is critical to seeing where RPGs went in terms of PC gaming, console gaming and fantasy gaming in general. Originally crafted in 1981, this classic title saw the mainstream birth of the first person dungeon crawler and the advent...
Neptunia, what on earth happened to you? You were a franchise that fans gathered around for ages, celebrating and flailing about on all walks of life. The original Hyperdimension Neptunia games on the Vita and Steam are some seriously fun moments in my developing life, and I even convinced my...
Princess Peach has really gotten the raw deal in terms of spotlight recognition since the Mario universe started spinning into side character games. Luigi’s Mansion is a fantastic series, Captain Toad warms my heart, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is tough as nails, and we’re all just waiting for a...
I really appreciate the global commitment to showing everyone what the apocalypse could look like. While so many of the films I saw in my younger days showed a lot of USA-based scenarios, the end of the world took place in every corner of Earth. Escape From New York, Brazil,...
