• Jin Sakai: Discarding Honor

    Jin Sakai: Discarding Honor

    In my review of Ghost of Tsushima, I was more than a little critical. While I did enjoy the game, it’s repetitive mission design, dated and unresponsive combat, and boring side content kept me from loving it as much as I had hoped I would. A solid, but not incredible game. But you know what…

  • The Mysterious Affair at Styles: The Beginnings of Agatha Christie

    Ah, Agatha Christie. The Queen of Mystery. While Arthur Conan Doyle may have invented the whodunnit mystery story with Sherlock Holmes, she was the one who refined it to what it is today. Her stories are a masterclass in writing surprising, unexpected twists that, while completely shocking, still makes total sense in retrospect. Truly, she…

  • Flameskull: The Most Straightforward Monster in the Book

    This is what happens when the person naming these monsters either gave up or ran out of ideas. ‘Flameskull’? Really? That’s all you could come up with? Not ‘Burning Spirit’ or ‘Vengeful Specter’? All you had was ‘Flameskull’? The flameskull is the kind of monster you can look at and immediately forget exists. It’s about…

  • The Streaming Service Oversaturation

    A market can only get so packed. There are only so many consumers and they can only consume so much. Crank out too much too quickly and you might sacrifice quality or overwhelm your would-be customer. Do either of those and you increase the chances of them jumping ship. A primary example of this was…

  • Chapter 29: Into the Wild

    Energia: Titans of VeritàTable of Contents (For Catching Up) Anna stared at the job board. The list of jobs was long and varied. ‘Settle a long standing dispute between shop owners in the Chinese sector’. ‘Patrol in the American sector’. ‘Acquire a Ragno-Scimmia’s heart for study’. Beneath each one was a list of details regarding…