• Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories: When the Story Went to Hell

    Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories: When the Story Went to Hell

    Two games in and the series’ plot has already gone to hell. And it only gets worse from here. Good job, guys. Chain of Memories might be the strangest entry in the entire franchise. And that, as anyone who is familiar with Kingdom Hearts knows, is a very bold statement. A good number of people…

  • How/How Not To Introduce a New Protagonist to an Established Franchise

    How/How Not To Introduce a New Protagonist to an Established Franchise

    In a long running series, people tend to get attached to the characters of old. If you watch a new entry in a movie franchise, people tend to demand that the old characters return in some fashion. If you watch an Indiana Jones movie, you expect to see Indiana Jones. If you play a Mario…

  • Writer’s Diary #4: An Objective Completed

    I had two goals at the beginning of this year. Goal one: finish the rough draft of my main project, Threads of Reality. The other was to have the next batch of Energia chapters finished and ready to go. The former was my top priority, while the ladder remained something for me to do to…

  • Elementals: Fury of the Elements (General Lore)

    As tempting as it is to try and tackle four different monsters in one article, I do have other things I have to do today. So we’re gonna break this into another multi-parter. Elementals are the living incarnations of the forces that make up the universe, namely water, earth, fire, and air. On their own…

  • Disney’s Losing Streak

    I have watched some pretty bad movies in my time. Unfortunately, we live in a world where far more bad films come out than good ones. But in the last few months, I have seen some unbearably awful movies! And oddly enough: most of them came from the mouse that rules the world himself. Just…