Halfway between Pokémon and Shin Megami Tensei
As loyal readers might expect, Jesse’s GOTY pick is a little unorthodox.
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From Silent Hill to Soma & back again: how horror got here
Horror games are having a renaissance right now. For a while, they were stale, same-y, and uncreative, and Jesse Boruff thinks he knows why they became that way.
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Get in the robot, Reader
Recently in my internet travels, an angry forum user labeled me braindead because I like Gundam and giant robots, which irked me. Not because someone was mean to me online, that shit happens all the time. No, I was irked because Gundam doesn’t deserve to be called braindead.
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Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Homo War
The Fire Emblem series is partially responsible for my pansexuality. There’s no shortage of queer coded characters, especially in the most recent entry, and there’s quite a history to it. Sometimes the series really drops the ball, but I think that there’s a fair amount of positive and important representation in the series.
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The world’s supply of Nintendium has been exhausted
Working at a game store in the mid-2010s, a coworker of mine, in reference to the Wii U , remarked Nintendo was “all out of Nintendium.” That specific moment played back in my head as I opened up my phone at nine in the morning, navigated to Nintendo’s YouTube page, and prepared to watch the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal.
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