Marvelous March – Week 4

This post is part of a year long effort of monthly themes – a focus to point my attention at each month that revolves around either a culture I’d like to learn more about or a piece of popular culture that I’m in the mood for or simply love. This idea stemmed from the popular…

Marvelous March – Week 3

Logan This movie is what can happen when you pry the reins of the X-Men from Bryan Singer’s perverted, slimy fingers. This might be one of the best Marvel movies outside of the MCU, in all honesty. It is so different from everything else in the Fox line-up. Gone are cheesy action scenes, overblown dialogue,…

Marvelous March – Week 2

This post is part of a year long effort of monthly themes – a focus to point my attention at each month that revolves around either a culture I’d like to learn more about or a piece of popular culture that I’m in the mood for or simply love. This idea stemmed from the popular…

Final Flanuary – A Month of Final Fantasy

This post is part of a year long effort of monthly themes – a focus to point my attention at each month that revolves around either a culture I’d like to learn more about or a piece of popular culture that I’m in the mood for or simply love. This idea stemmed from the popular…

Playing FFXIV in 2019 (why you should do it, too)

I have had an on-again/off-again love affair with Final Fantasy XIV since its relaunch back in 2013. I started playing it when it was a PS3 game, transitioned to PS4 with the Heavensward expansion, and then to the PC with the Stormblood expansion. I had no where to transition to with the Shadowbringers expansion, but…

Kingdom Come Deliverance

In college, I minored in Medieval Studies. This is not a common area of coursework in many colleges, but Western Michigan University has an entire department devoted to ye olde ages of yore. The program is fairly well-known, and they host a medieval congress every year for all the academic nerds of the world to…

Game Review -King’s Quest: Rubble Without a Cause

King’s Quest Chapter 1: A Knight to Remember stands out for me as one of the best gaming experiences of 2015. I’d never played the Sierra King’s Quest games, which had come out not long after I was born; my days of PC gaming didn’t start for another twenty years or so. Coming to The…

2015 iPhone Gaming

One of the primary reasons I decided to get an iPhone over an arguably better Android device is that I was tired of always being behind in the mobile-gaming scene. Android has a bigger library, and more freedom where games are concerned, but it always felt like the big-name games, and what seemed to be…

Game Review – Persona Q Shadow of the Labyrinth

Had I not included it in my Japanese culture curriculum, I might have never finished Persona Q. It’s a long game, especially for a handheld system, and my final hour count came out to around 65 played. The majority of that has progressed over the last month, and before that in several chunks throughout the…

Game Review – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt recently won Game of the Year at the less-than-prestigious 2015 Game Awards. It’s difficult to take the Game Awards seriously. They’ve overblown excuses to plug lots of advertising while making halfhearted attempts to legitimize the gaming industry. They fail at the second part. They’re an awards show, and I’ve never…

Game Review – Game of Thrones

The grand finale of Telltale’s Game of Thrones was released last week, and after a few nights of thorough play, I saw those credits roll. While I enjoyed Telltale’s efforts to replicate what HBO’s Game of Thrones does, it doesn’t quite live up to the mark, and there’s no question that the books do it…