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Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact This past weekend, from Friday August 24, through Sunday August 26, was the 2018 Pokemon world championships. They took place in Nashville, Tennessee, and featured a total prize pool of $500,000 split between 3 different games and 3 different age divisions per game (with only 2 age divisions for Pokken tournament). Pokemon Ultra Sun […]
Read More The 2018 Pokemon World VGC ChampionshipLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact First before I begin, let me apologize for the delay. I obtained Octopath Traveler on release, and for the most part had been playing it every day. I decided to play through to the final ending, and it took me way longer than expected. Luckily, I finished this game on Wednesday August 22, 2018, […]
Read More Review: Octopath Traveler (Switch)Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact This past Wednesday, August 8, 2018 Nintendo released a Smash Bros. Ultimate Direct. It revealed many features of the upcoming Smash Bros. game to be released in December. Since I was on vacation at the time, I couldn’t cover this news in a timely fashion. Even so, I want to cover as many of […]
Read More Nintendo News: Smash Bros. Ultimate DirectLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Have you ever played a video game and thought, “Why doesn’t the main character have something neat to say?” I know many games have this sort of main character. Throughout the entire game, they say absolutely nothing. This is all the more unusual, as most media (TV, movies, books, etc.) almost never do this. […]
Read More Blank Slate Characters in Video GamesLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact So this weekend, I had watched the live stream of the 2018 Pokemon North American International Championship, which took place in Columbus, Ohio. According to the commentators, there were around 2,000 competitors across the video game, trading card game, and Pokken Tournament games throughout the event. This also includes players in three age divisions […]
Read More A Look at The 2018 Pokemon NAICLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Okay, before I begin, I would like to say I usually don’t like sports video games. Why play a digital sport when you can play it in real life? You even get more exercise, have more fun, get to spend time with friends, all in one if you play the sport in person. One […]
Read More Review: Mario Tennis Aces (Switch)Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Pokemon can be fun. It features hundreds of unique collectible monsters, and best yet, you can trade or battle them with your friends. Without the option to play this type of game with others, this series might have been a fad, and may not have led to as many competing monster collection games/TV shows/card […]
Read More Fixing Pokemon’s Competitive GameLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Well, somewhat recently I had seen a post about what your favorite Zelda game says about you. In it, it was suggested that Phantom Hourglass was among the worst in the series. In my experience, most if not all Zelda games are at least good games. However, it has been a while since I […]
Read More Retro Review: The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (DS)Links-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact Some of my favorite tactical RPG’s are from the Fire Emblem series. With a new game recently announced, I wanted to take a look back at the previous games I had played. The quality of each game seems to vary quite a bit, so I want to highlight some differences. It could be from […]
Read More Fire Emblem RetrospectiveLinks-Home–Reviews–Articles–Library–Contact So the biggest news for Nintendo at E3 this year was more details for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Not only did it get its official name, a good chunk of the playable character roster was announced. In fact, every playable character from a previous Smash Bros. game is here. That alone leads to about […]
Read More Nintendo at E3 2018: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
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