After a long absence…wait, I already used that joke once before.  Eh, I’m sure it’s fine. Luck hasn’t been on my side recently.  Not in terms of my health or well-being, thankfully -- but it seems li...

I like to imagine that there’s a person out there who reads the title of this post, screams “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” and then dives from the sky like a peregrine falcon to try and hit me with a flying cross chop at 200 m...

You know, I can’t even begin to guess the number of posts that have been inspired by conversations with my brother.  I swear, he’s like a goldmine of writing material -- which is partly to be expected when he’s ...

Before I do anything else, I need to ask you Star Wars fans out there a question: what do you think of Darth Vader?  I’m curious, because I don’t have a leg to stand on.  I’ve seen the Star Wars movies (sav...

It should go without saying, but the book has long since been closed.  As of September 22nd, Street Fighter V assembled all of its first-wave DLC characters.  It started off with Alex, went to Guile, gave us Ibuki and Balrog...

Not to start this post off with a controversial opinion (on top of a clickbait-worthy title), but I have to be honest: I think underboob is the worst thing ever. It’s fine if other people like it, of course.  But for me?&nb...

I have a lot to thank my mom for, but I’d wager that my general avoidance of sweets is one of them.  It’s not that I have anything against candy (except chocolate, because I’m secretly history’s greatest m...

There’s an episode of Kamen Rider Drive where -- Hey, wait!  Don’t close the page yet!  I’m going somewhere with this. There’s an episode of Kamen Rider Drive where leading man Shinnosuke -- an ace co...

Okay, so quick show of hands: who here thinks that the gaming industry has improved recently? I know it may seem otherwise with every other post I write, but I’m glad to argue that there’s been progress.  Indie titles...

Confession time: up until a few days before its release, I didn’t know very much about No Man’s Sky.  From what I can gather, I wasn’t the only one.  The narrative being spun around it is that the sheer vag...

And by “biggest” I mean most prominent or obvious -- not necessarily in terms of scale.  If that was the case, then we’d all have no choice but to give it to…I don’t know, Wyzen from Asura’s W...

So last week, I uploaded a second post on the story mode for Street Fighter V.  Nothing out of the ordinary, of course, but the Destructoid dashboard told me that that was the 100th post I’d written for the community blogs....

Do stories matter in video games? Anyone who’s familiar with me or my work will know that my immediate answer is “YES, YOU IDIOT!”  Granted they’re not essential for every game out there, but in a lot of c...

Whew.  It’s been a while, but here we are again with Street Fighter V-- almost half a year after its initial release, as of writing. You know, it’s funny.  A year ago I did a post aimed at trying to predict what ...

So it’s the beginning of August right now, and Final Fantasy 15 is due out on September 30th.  In other words?  Oh God.  It’s almost time for another Final Fantasy game. Right, then.  So let’s do ...

So Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE is finally out.  Say what you will upfront about its choice to dive headfirst into idol culture (or the Japanese entertainment industry at large), but you know what?  Can we just take a minute to...

This would normally be the part where I launch into a paragraphs-long tangent, but I think I’d better get straight to the point.  I’m taking a hardline stance and saying what I’ve had in mind for years now: vide...

So how big is your backlog? I’d like to think that the answer to that varies from one gamer to another, but there are some constants.  Not to open myself up for a heaping helping of Foot in Mouth Stew, but I’d imagine...

I’ve resigned myself to a fate of being “behind the curve”.  I’m used to it.  People were using Facebook for years (and turning their backs on it) by the time I even had the thought of making an accou...

I consider it a point of pride to know as much as I do about games.  I’m no walking encyclopedia, but I still get around -- though there are still some pretty big gaps I’ve yet to reconcile.  Case in point: I fir...

So how do you feel about Batman? He’s been one of the big players in the DC Comics universe for a while now.  And not to generalize, but I’d assume that Christopher Nolan’s trilogy of Bat-movies secured his plac...

I hope that title doesn’t imply that Ubisoft is a developer/publisher solely capable of evil -- as if we can only count on it for acts of avarice, trickery, and the closest thing to evil a company could ever know.  It can do a lot ...

Is there anyone reading this that laments the loss of the game’s bust slider? Just before Xenoblade Chronicles X hit store shelves in the west, there was that controversy over “censorship”, i.e. gamers couldn’t raise or l...

I don’t want to risk slotting into the hole of “the Final Fantasy guy”, because that’s a hard hole to escape from.  Also, I’m seriously not equipped for it; I haven’t even played half of the main games in the franchise, a...

Here’s a question that won’t make anyone’s bile well up in their throat: how much do you like David Cage and his company, Quantic Dream? I never really had a problem with him, at least originally.  But then I tried the Beyon...

So Destructoid is kinda-sorta in the middle of a waifu war or something -- which is news to me, because I was under the impression that waifu wars never end.  Then again, I wouldn’t really know; I’ve never exactly been an active ...

So the other day, Platinum Games announced that this year would mark its tenth anniversary.  Hard to believe that they’ve been around for that long, but they’ve got the games to prove it -- and some sick-ass art to boot.  Wi...

So I have a question: how long are we going to hate Konami? Don’t get me wrong.  I’m not trying to play devil’s advocate here; the stuff Konami has pulled over the past year -- at a bare minimum -- has earned them every last...

Imagine -- if you will -- a volcano.   That volcano erupts.  The combination of ash and lava spewing from its seared crown creates a chain reaction in the atmosphere.  Terawatts of lightning crackle within its obsidian c...

I’m an idiot. That should be blatantly obvious by now, because collectively I’ve blown about a hundred hours on the modern-day Final Fantasy games, and cleared one of its latest entries before I even touched Bloodborne. ...