In April of 2008, a game was released on the DS called The World Ends With You. It was critically praised upon its release, but didn't do insane numbers like other games released by the same company, Square Enix. Most important to...

Oh shoot, it's already May third. This theme is going up a little late, sorry about that. I hope May finds you all well. April is over (though I completely missed that happening) and a lot of intersting games recently came out, and are...

Spoilers for Nier Replicant! It was nearing the end of the month and I wasn't sure what to do about this month's Band of Bloggers prompt. The prompt was "subverting expectations" and it's not exactly easy to plan to have your expectati...

After a brief hiatus in February, Band of Bloggers is back and well rested.  There are a lot of things that can keep someone coming back to a game. Some games have excellent multiplayer, others have fun moment to moment gameplay t...

I was very excited for Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time. When the game came out I wasn't expecting it to be so difficult. Not in the 'die a whole bunch of times' way, but in the completing kind of way. I could get through the l...

2020 has been a ride, a ride through a stinky poisonous swamp that you can't dodge roll through, populated by giant mosquitoes and and an amalgamation of leeches. It's December though, we're almost done. 2020 will soon meet its end, an...

I am not good with scary games. I have always been interested in horror games, but most of the time when I try them out, I don't last long. I know that there isn't actually anything to be afraid of, it's all a game, but that doesn't st...

It's October and I'm in charge of the theme for the month, so that means that we're doing a spooky theme! I can't help myself. Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year, and I can't help but make an eerie theme for October. So,...

The wait for Persona 5 was a little agonizing. Just a little. Persona 4 is a great game and I think a lot of people, myself included, were anxious to see how Atlus would follow up. Atlus decided to follow up by making a lot o...

Hyrule Warriors is the game that I have spent the most time with on my Switch, at nearly three hundred hours. I also played a good amount of time on the Wii U and 3DS versions of the game. To say that I was excited when they annou...

In this month's (yes it's still August, no I'm not running right up against a month long deadline... shut up) Band of Bloggers theme, we were asked to discuss a sequel that seems to be missing something that it's predecessor had. In th...

Do you ever just get hit with a nostaligic feeling and find that you suddenly really want to play that game again, whatever game that might be. For whatever reason, whenever the weather gets unreasonably hot, I just need to play Spyro....

I live in a literal desert in the northern hemisphere. Here at the start of July the temperatures are getting unbearable, and I am forever glad that someone figured out Air Conditioning before I was born. When things get this hot, many...

Being a Dragon Quest fan in America has been a bumpy road. There have been several long stretches of absolutely nothing while Japan was getting regular releases. Recently things seem to finally be getting better. Dragon Quest 11 on Swi...

When I saw the theme for this month's Band of Bloggers, Release The Trolls, I immediately thought of Soulsborne games and how often the player can die due to a trap or ambush. Those games always have a feeling like anything can kill yo...

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is a really fun game that I have spent a lot of time with. I wanted to write about it for this months prompt, but I couldn't really think of a way to make it fit. This month's prompt is Rule of Fun, those mom...

We're finally past February and we're about to hit a wave of anticipated video game releases. You know what else the new month will bring us? A new Band of Bloggers theme of course. What do you mean that isn't as exciting as DOOM Etern...

In our little community here certain games are very popular. You'll stroll into the quick posts after a game release that everyone here has been looking forward to and you find people gushing about the new game. This qpost gushing has ...

When I initially wrote the prompt for Band of Bloggers at the beginning of this month, there were a lot of games that I was exctied for that I wanted to write about. A new Final Fantasy 7 Remake trailer just dropped, and that has me in...

Happy new year! 2019 is gone and it can't hurt you anymore. That's 2020's job now, but we can all hope that 2020 will be good to us, that we'll make resolutions and actually keep them, and that all the things we're looking forward to w...

SquareEnix used to occationally pair their lesser known titles with a demo for the latest Final Fantasy title in order to bolster sales. I could only find two times that they did this, but there might have been more. In order to boost ...

Some of my earliest gaming memories stem from the Super Nintendo, though I never actually had one until the SNES Classic. I had friends who had the SNES though, and I still remember going to their homes to play Super Mario World. My br...

Hopefully you all had a chance to clear up some unfinished business last month. We've moved on from the spooky month, and it's time for a new theme from the Band of Bloggers. Video games are, among other things, a great form of escapis...

One of my first experiences with the Dragon Quest series was back when the games were called Dragon Warrior on the GameBoy Color. Dragon Warrior I-II and Dragon Warrior III came out in the early 2000's and they were somehow localized i...

For this month's theme, I was intending to play Stardew Valley, a life/farming sim. It's a fantastic game, but as I started a new game with the intent to go after Leah this time around, I noticed that I wasn't feeling all that relaxed....

Life can get really stressful sometimes. We've all had hard times, and it's likely that some of us are going through stuff right now. When we're tense and on edge, it can help to have something to help us relax. Maybe you listen to soo...

It probably says a lot about me that when I read the prompt for this month's Band of Bloggers, The Company You Keep, I immediately thought of playing a dating sim. With this idea firmly planted in my mind, I searched Steam for a dating...

For as long as I can remember playing games, I've been a Legend of Zelda fan. I have so many fond memories of nearly all the games in the series. While I considered myself a fan, there was a pretty big problem with my fan status: I had...

For many video games can serve as a form of escapism. We play games to live out a fantasy in the game, and that fantasy can take many different forms. Some peoeple find an escape in a farming sim, where you can lead a fulfilling life o...

Do want to know what's EXTREME!? SPORTS! That's the theme for this month's Band of Bloggers. EXTREME SPORTS! In the late 90s and early 2000s, EXTREME SPORTS! became big in video games. Because video games are EXTREME! And so were the ...