It All Comes Down
(Note: This article contains significant spoilers for the freeware visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club. Those hoping to avoid spoilers should play the game prior to reading. Content Warning: Mental […]
Category Archives: Blog
Thoughts, ramblings, and mental meanderings.
Please Come In
When I was younger, I spent a lot of time feeling bad about myself. It wasn’t anything terribly traumatic, but a likely common story for the nerdier folks going through […]
Waterfront Property
The grass sways in the wind, the sea reaches up to the cliffs, spraying ocean into the air before calming once again into itself. Seafaring birds drift in the distance, […]
Better Than We Found It
When I first started playing and writing about games, it was a different time. Advertisements were built on the backs of the grunge-fantasy vibe of metal bands. Or they wrapped […]
About Scenery, Music, Relaxation
One of my favorite experiences in any game is experiencing the staccato rhythm of Pikachu’s crouch-walk in any Super Smash Bros. When I started writing about games at a professional […]
The Division – Aesthetic Review
There is nothing gentle about heavy snowfall. It spills out of the sky like a breach in a dam, blanketing vision ahead to anything but the most vague shapes, the […]
Games of 2016
Life is a little bit transient. Every moment we live today is one that will be replaced by a similar one tomorrow. The next day brings new horizons, and with […]
Half-Life 2 – Aesthetic Review
It’s noisy and uncomfortable, mechanical and pseudo-colloquial, both familiar and alien. Five o’clock shadow, short and well-managed hair, but something about the eyes is as off-putting as the voice. The […]
A Few Ill-Placed Pieces
Sometimes life feels like a puzzle to me. A series of small thoughts, shapes, and configurations that are shaped more or less like the pieces of other people’s lives and […]
Tricker’s Treat
I typically loathe difficult games. In part because designing challenges is difficult. Technology being what it is, computers can’t match a hand-tailored stage design or a human’s variations in play. […]