• Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Wait, I’m a lawyer and I’m not the bad guy?

    Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Wait, I’m a lawyer and I’m not the bad guy?

    Geez, I haven’t played these games since high school! That simultaneously feels like yesterday and a thousand years ago. Let’s see if they hold up! Video games these days always feel like they’re trying to be bigger. They’ve gotta have a bigger open world, they’ve gotta have more playable characters, they’ve gotta have a hundred…

  • The Problems with Modern Superman

    The Problems with Modern Superman

    The superhero genre is vastly oversaturated at this point in time. It’s reached the point where the MCU has started making movies and TV shows about some of their most obscure characters, like Shang-Chi and the Eternals (remember that?). Love ’em or hate ’em, these spandex-clad heroes ain’t going anywhere anytime soon. Yet, one character…

  • Voyage of the Dawntreader: One Piece, Narnia Edition

    Man, I’ve had this one on the backburner for a while. Well, better late than never. So we return to the Narnia series. A classic fantasy that most people are familiar with, but only as far as the first book or two (not the actual second book, but the second book that focuses on the…

  • Mummies: Brendan Frasier, is that you?

    Before opening a sarcophagus, light a torch. X the Mystic’s 7th Rule of Dungeon Survival Alright! We’ve got an ominous opening quote and a terrible joke in the title! This week’s Best of the Bestiary is off to a wonderful start! Lore: Eternal Lorekeepers and Undying Tyrants Buried long ago in an extensive dark ritual,…

  • Advent Children is Bizarre

    Advent Children is Bizarre

    Of all the games in the Final Fantasy series, none has received quite the level of attention from Square Enix that Final Fantasy 7 has. At this point, FF7 is basically it’s own series, with all the spin-off games and anime OVAs and the remake project. Other FF games are lucky just to get any…