Later this year, Nintendo will release the Nintendo Classic Mini: Nintendo Entertainment System, a “mini replica of Nintendo’s original home console.” This mini NES is a little microconsole loaded up with 30 NES classics, dressed up like a Nintendo Entertainment System. I guess it’s a neat idea as a way of …
Tokyo Game Show is all wrapped up for this year, and if there’s one important takeaway from it, it’s that 2016 is looking amazing for fans of Japanese games, and JRPGs in particular. Between new announcements, new footage for previously-announced games, and one delay that everyone saw coming, this year’s TGS gave us …
Spoiler warning: This whole article is about a major spoiler for Dragon Quest III. As if the title didn’t give that away. Fake endings aren’t exactly a rarity in video games, or any narrative for medium. This is particularly true of RPGs, where “surprise! here’s the real final boss” is such a worn-out trope …
After starting a semi-regular feature about comics I’m reading last week in Now Reading, doing something similar for my other go-to pastime – video games – was probably inevitable. Introducing… Now Playing, a quick look at some of the games I’ve been playing lately. Most of my free time over …
Playing through Dragon Quest for the first time in 2015 was a weird experience. It’s a game that hasn’t exactly aged well, but somehow, that made it a fascinating and rewarding experience. It’s a snapshot of the early days of console RPGs, an insight into where many of the genres standards originated. Despite …
There’s something special about going back and experiencing old games with fresh eyes. I’m not talking about revisiting childhood staples, though that is great too, but playing games for the first time that are 10, 20, even 30 years old. Some games buckle under the weight of their age, others hardly …
