• Guilty Gear Strive: All I Had Hoped For and Feared

    Guilty Gear Strive: All I Had Hoped For and Feared

    We finally know the smell of the game! Launch is always a dangerous time for any multiplayer game. If the servers don’t work and the game itself isn’t fun, their life cycle could be cut significantly down to size. Nailing that first step is essential in the longevity of any multiplayer game. Of course, the…

  • Izumi Miyamura: Soldiering Through Sadness to Find Joy

    **Spoilers ahead for Horimiya (both the anime and the manga)** Appearances can be deceiving. That’s the central theme of Horimiya. No character in the entire series is exactly as they appear at first glance. Sengoku is built up to be an extremely competent student council president only to be revealed as a nervous wreck and…

  • The Dragon Reborn: The Gears Begin to Turn

    I’ve been told many times that this is the stopping point. People I trust and respect have said that they were satisfied with this book and felt no need to read any of the further entries in the series. Question is: will I agree and drop the series after this? Or will it lock me…

  • Goblins: You Know ‘Em, You Love ‘Em

    If you want soldiers or thugs, hire hobgoblins. If you want someone clubbed to death in their sleep, hire bugbears. If you want mean little fools, hire goblins. Stalman Klim, slave lord Weird question: what’s your default goblin sound? Is it odd cackling? Or a sort of high-pitched grunting? I always make a weird ‘hyegh-hyegh’…

  • Can True Star Trek Return?

    A while back, I wrote an article complaining about everything modern Star Trek gets wrong. In that article, I lamented that the Star Trek shows of old have been left behind in favor of mindless space action. All the intellect, optimism, and charm of the older shows have been completely forgotten. Today, I’m going to…