(NB: This blog will be mostly spoiler free for those playing the game or interested in playing the game.) Last month I wrote about the declining state of the Tales of series and how recent games made me lose love for it. Tales of Berse...

This is me venting more than anything, but I feel that as this community has a decent numbers of creators I might find someone who can relate to my problems. Apologies in advance if any of this comes off as pretentious. I’ve onl...

When you have an older brother so close in age, you end up sharing everything. We shared a bedroom, bathed together, ate together, went out together and, inevitably, played video games together. Our parents seized the opportunity to sa...

Pokemon is an excellent franchise. I've found every new title it releases a guaranteed time killer. The newest games, Sun and Moon, have become my favourite Pokemon games and were such an improvement over X and Y. However, that’s...

I lost count of the amount of times I lost those tiny Game Boy Advance cartridges and had to enlist the whole family’s help in turning the house upside down to find them. Amongst the most lost games were Golden Sun and its sequel...

If you frequent the Steam store and its list of popular new releases, you will have likely noticed an increase in games tagged with the words: Visual Novel, Anime, and, in some cases, Nudity and Sexual Content. These titles are a mix o...

Despite being one of the oldest JRPG franchises around, the Tales of series never quite took off in the West in the same way that, say, Final Fantasy did. Back when I was a kid, maybe around 11 years old, most kids around me knew about...

There’s something ballsy about what The Legend of Heroes franchise sets out to do. I can’t think of many modern franchises that aim to tell a story that requires at least two games to tell, without cutting out chunks and cr...