In I Am Bread you play as a slice of bread that roams around a room with the goal of becoming toast. It’s very silly and also quite frustrating. You don’t move around in a conventional video game way, instead, each shoulder button on the controller lets a corner of the bread 'grab' a surface… Continue reading Inconvenience
Tag: Video Games
Above Reproach
One of these days, I’ll probably replay Kingdom Hearts. In part because of the recent Final Fantasy kick, in part because it’s been around a decade since I last played it (and II and Chain Of Memories). If and when I do revisit it, I wonder how it’ll hold up, both as a game over… Continue reading Above Reproach
Variations On A Theme
I finished Final Fantasy IX this week (for those keeping track at home, this is the sixth Final Fantasy since booting up VIII back in the fall of 2022). It’s a lot like the other Final Fantasies. It’s got the hero who, like in X, has to grapple with the fact that his very existence… Continue reading Variations On A Theme
Future’s Past
Star Wars: Knights of The Old Republic is set four thousand years before the main Star Wars movies. War wages between the Republic and the Sith Empire as the Jedi try to fight back against an unstoppable force millennia before the rise of Palpatine. Released back in 2003, the game was set in a whole… Continue reading Future’s Past
Virtual Tourism
I’m spending a couple days in Venice, Italy in a month so I’m preparing the best way I know how: By replaying Assassin’s Creed II. A good chunk of the game takes place in a fairly faithful recreation of Renaissance Venice, I haven’t played it since I first did, fourteen years ago, a sentence that’s… Continue reading Virtual Tourism
Sneaking Past Rewards
Cyberpunk 2077 gives you a lot of options on how to approach combat. You can run in guns blazing. You can run in sword blazing. You can hack your enemies’s brains and make them catch fire. You can run sneak in, silently stabbing everyone before leaving without being noticed. You can sneak in, hiding from… Continue reading Sneaking Past Rewards
Fantasy’s End
As I’ve mentioned on this blog here and there, I’ve spent the past year and a half playing through the Final Fantasy games that were released on the PlayStation. It started with VIII, then X, then a foray in X-2, then XII, then jumping ahead to XVI, before going back to VII, and then now… Continue reading Fantasy’s End
Back To The Battlefront
Speaking of rereleases, the two original Star Wars Battlefront games just got rereleased for the PS5. They didn’t get a makeover (besides adding a few things that had been PC and Xbox-specific way back when), they’re just straight-up ported to a modern console. Which means that, once again, this is becoming a blog where a… Continue reading Back To The Battlefront
Corridors, Again
The Phantom Menace was on my mind last week because the video game based on the movie got rereleased and I decided to see how the game felt over twenty years later. I played The Phantom Menace sometime around when it first came out in 1999 and my father bought it for my brother and… Continue reading Corridors, Again
Game Movie
My first interaction with Final Fantasy VII was through the movie Advent Children. It’s not a great introduction to the game (and its many spin-offs); it needs you to be super familiar with the story of the game and makes no attempt to ease you into the world at all. But it looked cool, with… Continue reading Game Movie
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