Video Game Player and Video Game Historian
So, since my date (Persona 5) ditched me for Valentine’s Day, we decided to do a Persona Retrospective!
This podcast covers Persona 4 and the spinoffs. This delves further into development, history, as well as our personal opinions on the game. Give it a listen!
Here is the link if you missed part 1.
Leave a CommentSo, since my date (Persona 5) ditched me for Valentine’s Day, we decided to do a Persona Retrospective! Click here to listen to part 1.
This podcast covers Persona 1-3. This delves further into development, history, as well as our personal opinions on the game. Give it a listen!
Leave a CommentLost Odyssey was and is a fantastic game, and we decided to talk about it after we played the digital release on Xbox One.
Leave a CommentFinal Fantasy X-2 is probably one of the most hated Final Fantasy games, and to me, that is a tragedy. I have been considering my own position on the game, and this is my reevaluation of the game after playing the HD Remaster on the PS3.1
2 CommentsJust in time for the 20th anniversary of the release of Final Fantasy 7, Jared and I talk about the game in depth!
Leave a CommentI did a podcast with Jared @ Seasonal Anime Checkup about our thoughts on the Nintendo Switch. Click here to listen!
Leave a CommentThis year, I actually didn’t play as many games as I would have expected to. I also played games that I wouldn’t recommend playing.2 However, when it comes down to it, seven games rose to the top as my favorites this year. Seven, you ask?! Why such a strange number? Why not 10? Why not 5? The answer? This is my list, and I came up with seven. 
Some spoilers below for games.
Leave a CommentFor context, The Last Guardian‘s development team, Team ICO 3, and its designer, Fumito Ueda, previously created games that are largely considered artistic masterpieces of gaming. For those of you who haven’t played ICO or Shadow of the Colossus, I’m just gonna leave this here. I played both of these when they came out, and I will wholeheartedly say that I cannot recommend them enough. What the studio was able to do with minimal dialogue, a creative art style, and relatively small casts is mind blowing.
When they first announced that they were making a new game for the PS3, I was ecstatic. Then the game was hampered by delay after delay, a console generation change, and the departure of most of Ueda’s team when he left (although he was contracted to finish directing the game.) Finally, the game was set to release in late 2016. We were given a date. Then it got delayed again…but as of December 6, 2016, The Last Guardian finally saw its release. I bought a copy, thinking that the reviews for it were decent, and as much as I loved the other two games, it was worth a shot.
The Last Guardian is a game nine years in the making, and boy, does it show. Spoilers behind the cut.
1 CommentI’ve gone through this before during my MA, but every time I get to the point of submitting a chapter to my advisor, I feel a massive amount of anxiety. I start to feel physically ill, I get headaches, and I constantly fear that everything that I wrote is going to go directly into the digital garbage can.
As I’ve mentioned before, I do suffer from imposter syndrome, which I feel is more common than many would think. I am always afraid that whatever I write will not be acceptable to people I consider infinitely smarter than me, and that I will be promptly laughed out of town.
Although it is not always as bad as it seems, my brain automatically goes straight to the worst possible scenario due to my anxiety. My initial thoughts are just what I could have done differently, who I could have had proofread it, if I was comfortable enough letting anybody proofread it, and the lingering thought of CAN I ACTUALLY DO THIS?!
The struggle is eternally real for me as a doctoral candidate, and all I really need/want is a lot of affirmation that, yes, little one. You do deserve to be here, and you’re not a huge idiot. You got here on your own merit, and even if the chapters aren’t perfect (They aren’t. They never will be), they’re still good.
Only THEN will I relax. Maybe…?
Leave a CommentI once again guest starred on Seasonal Anime Checkup’s OVA! This time we talked about World of Final Fantasy, Root Letter, Final Fantasy 15’s Judgment Disc, and Persona 5’s delay.
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