Blog Archives
sA Vital, Overlooked Quality in Fantasy Games (Hint: It’s NOT Story)
Saturday , 24, March 2018 Games 3 CommentsAs I mentioned in a previous article, Castlevania is my favorite game franchise, of which I’ve played almost every title. Which one is my absolute favorite? Is it the fantastic Symphony of the Night? Or is it perhaps one of the later Metroidvanias that improved upon the formula, like the superb Portrait of Ruin? Maybe it’s an old-school action platforming […]
This article was originally going to be of a literary nature, examining an important antecedent to pulp and science fiction. But in keeping with this column’s increasingly motley topics, I decided to write about the only medium I haven’t yet covered; games. And while I know many times less about RPGs of any kind than […]
More Proof Hollywood Spits at Heroism And Adventure: Castlevania
Saturday , 23, December 2017 Movies 42 CommentsAs I was reading Jasyn’s outstanding review of The Last Jedi, I kept thinking how much it applied to another 2017 production I watched last week. Namely, the Netflix-produced miniseries of Castlevania. For those unfamiliar with the property, it’s a series of video games, beginning in 1987 and continuing to the present, which follow a […]