Objective analysis of Mighty No.9 is impossible, so I'm under no pretense that I can offer it. Even if the Kickstarter campaign didn't carry the absolute truckload of drama that it does now, the very premise was bound to cloud judgmen...

Damn it Kemco, can't you see I'm trying to keep up here?I've been preparing a huge write up talking about you guys, and I've been showering my website with reviews for your vast catalogue of RPGs. I actually just finished writing an update ...

To the staff writers at Toucharcade.com: I love the site. I really do. I check in daily for all my mobile gaming news, and Shaun Musgrave's RPG Reload column is consistently excellent week after week. I fancy myself a mobile, console, and P...

For those of you just tuning in, I recently started an RPG Maker Workshop series to help aspiring RPG developers become the game-making experts they’ve dreamed of. Yet in writing that, I assumed that my readers had already purchased ...

I asked about it, you* asked for it, and here it is. Welcome to the pilot episode of the RPG Maker Workshop, brought to you by JoyfulSanity.com and Destructoid.com** *By "you" I mean a couple people this one time. **Destructoid doesn't eve...

Look at this guy. I'm not even an hour into Covenant of Solitude, and I am floored. Not because the game itself is that great (it seems pretty mediocre so far), but because little did I expect to see the classiest man in the worl...

What do you get when two MMORPGs based on two giant RPG franchises are launched within less than a year of each other? Arguments. Lots and lots of arguments. The ongoing debate over whether Final Fantasy XIV or The Elder Scrolls Online is ...

Have you ever been away from home for a really long time? Do you know that warm fuzzy feeling of seeing old friends and family for a week after being away for months at a time? That's kind of how I feel writing this post. It's good to be h...

I had it all figured out yesterday. I had most of the day set aside to play the brand new Final Fantasy XIV expansion Heavensward, and I was ready to binge on it until I saw enough to write up a comprehensive first impressions blog. T...

    It's time to join the club   When I first heard about Bacon Club Cheeseburger, I was skeptical to say the least. Developer McDonald's is no stranger to anti-consumer practices, and the critically panned Black H...

  Confession: I wrote the title of this blog as a silly excuse to jump on the anti-badger bandwagon after the not-quite-stellar Q&A session that recently happened. However, after rereading all the badger-related posts and...

How does one write an intro for a blog about something as shameful and private as their fetishes? Seriously, someone tell me please. 1: Elizabeth When it comes to Persona girls, some guys like Chie for her legs, Yukiko for her laughin...

Image Source: Kotaku If you ask just about anyone what they hate the most about old school style jRPGs, there's a very high chance they'll say "random battles." It's an idea that has been parodied to death and has been the subject of rid...

Ever since I started blogging here around the beginning of the year, I've been thinking I should keep away from talking about personal drama or struggles for the sake of my own (joyful)sanity. For this month, I think it's for the best that...

If you asked me to fill out a list of ten reasons why I come to Destructoid, numbers one through nine would probably be a picture of Marlon Brando riding a polar bear which is wearing a jetpack made of shotguns. But at number ten, I'd prob...

Playing Pok�mon X brings me back to a simpler time. And no, I don't mean the days of drinking Surge and watching Nickelodeon. I'm talking about the years after studying for weekly spelling tests and before Steam sales flooded our game lib...

It's Halloween, and there is literally nothing scarier we could be celebrating on this day of shock and terror than the�Pok�mon�series. I mean, seriously, have you read the creepypastas? Chances are, if you buy a used copy of any of the G...

ShadeOfLight says we need stupid things like "happiness" and "positivity" and "quotation marks" around here. Well tear down the pillow fort and throw out the pizza, because I'm about to add some much needed JOURNALISM to this site. What f...

Look, I get it, the reasoning for those images being changed in The Stanley Parable�is a bit silly. I haven't played the game myself, and I hope to change that when I have a little bit more spare change, but I get why the impulse is to be...

For all the times the words �sexualized� and �sexualization� pop up in articles and comments sections on gaming sites these days, have you ever taken a step back and asked what those words mean? I mean, I�m sure we all kind of think we d...

Not only is Klonoa 2: Lunatea�s Veil the best game you�ve (probably) never played, but it�s also my favorite game. As in ever made. I�m not here to convince you that Klonoa 2 is the best game ever made (objectively, it�s not), but I can ...

Welcome to the epic conclusion of this tutorial on how to murder even the most fearsome backlog. New to the party? Catch up by reading the first part here. Yesterday, we learned that we should only buy games we actually want to play vers...

�My wallet is crying.� Admit it, you�ve said it, or at least thought it. If not, you must be here just to laugh at the rest of us and I will not tolerate such pretentiousness. (Just kidding, please stay and play nice). Between Amazon, ...

The 3DS StreetPass games aren't great because they�re deep games. They�re great because they�re accessible versions of occasionally obtuse genres that are designed for short bursts. I�m not sure if the StreetPass games have managed to in...

Raise your hand if you like boobs. If you didn't, I'm going to assume you're lying, because you clicked a blog called "boobs." I'm not here to guilt trip you, because, I mean, who doesn't love boobs? Heterosexual men are kind of hardwired...

Final Fantasy XIII does nearly everything that I believe a jRPG shouldn't do. The dungeon design is nonexistent, all pressure of resource management has been nullified, and the story is honestly the worst I think I�ve ever seen in a game....

It's been two days since Mega Man was announced as a playable character in the new Super Smash Bros. and I still feel adrenaline left over from the excitement. I know I'm not alone in this. Go to just about any Mega Man related video on Y...

An introduction after four blogs is a little silly, isn't it? It's like being at a party for three hours and finally telling everyone your name. In Destructoid's case, it's a party full of characters so diverse and quirky that it could be...

Did you know that there was a blog recently posted called "Why I Hate Your Blog?" It's a great read, and I recommend you take some time to read it. Although, if you do, remember to come back here afterwards, because I'm lonely. ;_; This ...

Imagine walking into a room and seeing a four year old with a Super Nintendo controller in his hand, yet the TV is faced away from you. What game might you imagine that kid to be playing? The most logical guess would likely be a sidescrol...