“This game contains no tutorials or explanations. Part of the experience is to discover things for yourself” - Disclaimer before starting The Starship Damrey. The last time I looked at the GUILD series was to wax lyrical about Attack of the Friday Monsters, a game I thought would never have been made in the way it …
Attack of the Friday Monsters
In the 1950s, the prospering Japanese film industry reinvented the “monster movie.” The giant monsters of the era were “kaiju” that often symbolized the effects of pollution, such as radiation and hydrogen bomb experiments. In the 1960s and 70s, the “hero show” was born. Brave heroes challenged the kaiju on prime time television, and the …
The Best Games on the 3DS
I wasn’t expecting this to be the post for this month, but Persona 5 has ended up taking much longer than I expected to play through and gather my notes on, so this will have to serve to tide me over until then. Despite the success of Nintendo’s most recent portable console, the Switch, I …
The Pokemon Sun and Moon Conundrum
It usually takes me around a few weeks before I’ve moved on to my second playthrough of a Pokemon game. It took me until the start of January before I’d even finished Pokemon Sun and Moon, and this has nothing to do with the length of the game. Instead, it was constant stopping and starting: …