INT: THE DINING HALL OF CASTLE GRUYERE, CHEESE MOUNTAIN The lights were bright and cheery in the famed dining hall of Castle Gruyere, the mood festive, a veritable menagerie of the finest dorks, dudes, dudettes, cryptid horrors, stacked raccoons wearing a big skin suit, and the entire contents of a clown car, including rather inexplicably the car itself vaping nonstop and pounding down Coca Cola all in attendance for what would certainly be yet another magnificent feast. Rising from the...

“Hey Octopus, what’s the best thing to play with your friends?” No one has ever asked me this, but don’t worry, I’ll answer it anyway; tabletop RPGs. Colloquially referred to by the ‘TTRPG’ abbreviation, these are games of collaborative storytelling that combine structured rulesets, often involving dice, with elements of make believe and ‘theater of the mind’ that sees players create their own characters to do random nonsense with. They meld these elements to let players make their own fun...

Megaman has had an illustrious career over the past three decades, spanning a total of 38 mainline games (Yes, I counted them) spread across 2 timelines, at least 4 genres and countless game systems. If you thought it was hard enough to keep track of every Kingdom Hearts game due to the sporadic console releases back in the day, then you had your work cutout for you with Megaman. But with so many games, some are bound to be more polished or more fun than others. Today we’re ranking the ten...

We’re finally back. We’re back on the path of the licensed Marvel games after a bit of a ‘detour’ (read: I couldn’t take any more terrible Marvel games) where I played some things that were actually good; and I do say, it was fantastic. But like death, taxes and the existential dread of my own mortality, I can never truly escape the call of the retro Marvel game and so here we are. The last two articles (Part One and Part Two) saw us encounter some real opponents of quality and, of course...

You have heard me gosh over Deus Ex for as long as I have been a member of this site. I'm sure it drove some of you nuts. But I could never quite put my finger on why that was... on why I couldn't stop recommending this 24-year-old game to anyone who would listen. Well, that --hopefully-- ends now. This isn't going to be a review, but a sort of love letter to a game that changed my entire understanding on what gaming is and should be. I don't expect it to make a lot of sense, but I hope...

The Nintendo 64 was the eternal white whale of my childhood. Not only was it by far the most hyped up console that I have ever seen, but it was also so incredibly expensive that only a few selected stores carried it. That meant that not only was I hearing endlessly about it, but also that I could never see (let alone touch) one. That put me in a very interesting position, and I ended up dubbing the system as "the coolest thing I never saw". Now, I did eventually come across a few during my...

Introduction Years ago, back when young child Dameon was just turning 11 years of age, he was begging his parents for a new game console, and for that years Christmas, that's just what he got. Luckily for my parents, I was never one to ask for much, which meant that, luckily for me, this gift came with a lovingly and creatively curated stack of games. Among the stack, this absolute gem of a game, which I surprisingly learned some years later, was picked out for me by my aunt, who to anyone...

The Nintendo DS is one of my favorite consoles, if not my favorite console, ever. Very functional, slick design, a nice duration to its battery, ergonomic, plenty of functionalities, buttons that feel good… Just a excellently designed piece of hardware. And very durable, too! Mine fell on the floor a bunch of times and still works wonders! I did have to change the circuit for the trigger buttons, but the rest works magnificently. Aside from being a good console, it has one of the most...

The 90s were a heyday for gaming cartoons. It felt like you couldn’t turn your head around without seeing a new one pop up. The game didn’t even have to be popular because for crying out loud, if Bubsy of all things in the universe could get a cartoon pilot, then pigs could fly. But it’s possible you’re already aware of the classics. The Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Man: Super Fighting Robot and The Super Mario Bros. Super Show (what a mouthful) are all great examples of fondly...