Category: Video Games

  • God of War: Ragnarök is a Masterpiece

    God of War: Ragnarök is a Masterpiece

    This year has been a rather slow one for games. After Elden Ring came out and shook the world, things more or less went quiet. Plenty of indie releases and a few triple-A duds, but nothing truly exceptional. It was starting to look like FromSoftware was going to sweep Game of the Year with little…

  • Thor (God of War Ragnarök): Product of One’s Environment

    Thor (God of War Ragnarök): Product of One’s Environment

    *Major spoilers for God of War: Ragnarök ahead! Read at your own risk!* Throughout God of War (2018), Kratos and Atreus were told many a story of Thor, the champion of the Aesir gods. Everything pointed to him being a murderous maniac. A monster who lives for killing and drinking and nothing else, a bastard…

  • Final Fantasy V: The RPG That Bullies You

    Final Fantasy V: The RPG That Bullies You

    I have a somewhat odd history with Final Fantasy V. Technically, it was the first game in the series I ever played; I would play it a fair bit when I was a kid. But I had never actually finished it. In fact, I never even got that far; I’d get to the ship graveyard…

  • Coffee Talk: Stories in the Cafe

    Coffee Talk: Stories in the Cafe

    First Legends and Lattes, now this. What is with wholesome coffee shops and fantasy that makes me so damn happy?! I knew absolutely nothing about Coffee Talk going into it. I’d never even heard of the game before. There was a sale going on after one of the co-creators, Mohammad Fahmi Hasni, tragically passed away;…

  • Final Fantasy IV: When They Figured it Out

    Final Fantasy IV: When They Figured it Out

    Farewell, NES. Hello, SNES! Oh, dear friend, I’m so glad to see you again! The first three Final Fantasy games definitely suffered from growing pains. It was the same story we saw countless times on the NES: the first game was revolutionary, the second was a disaster that experimented too much and lost what worked…