Category: Video Games
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After 29 years, I beat The Legend of Zelda!
There’s a story in my family that while my mom was going into labor, my older brother was kept occupied by teaching a family friend how to play the legend of Zelda on the Nintendo Entertainment System. I grew up with that original Nintendo and its classic games, and with an older brother who actually […]
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Red Dead Redemption II is incredible and is also not very fun.
I completely bought into the hype for Red Dead Redemption II. When the game first got announced, I watch the initial teaser trailer with glee, having really loved both the story and the gameplay experience of the first Red Dead Redemption. As more information started coming out, I decided to stop paying attention so that […]
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First Impressions: Dark Souls
Somehow I completely missed out on Dark Souls when it first came out back in 2011, and then never got around to correcting that. After watching the Monster Factory episode for Bloodborne I did give that one a shot, and had a ton of fun in the character creator before playing for about 15 minutes, and […]
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Getting my virtual trucker’s tan on!
I’ve been goofing off lately with Euro Truck Simulator 2 and American Truck Simulator. They are video games where you drive a semi truck on long-hauls and get punished for speeding, driving in the wrong lane, running red lights, or doing just about anything else that is typically fun in a game where you drive […]
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In Honor of Boog Boog: The first casualty of my Nuzlocke Run
A few weeks ago, I started a Nuzlocke Challenge run of Pokémon Gold over on my Twitch channel, inspired by Daniel K’s Pokemon Blue Nuzlocke Challenge. For the unfamiliar, the Nuzlocke Challenge is a self-imposed rule set to make Pokémon games harder, with three main rules: In a normal Pokémon playthrough, when a member of […]
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