Apr 20STATE OF THE BLOGWhat’s going on??????? Hey how’s it going? I’m not going to mince words here. 2022 has been rough. I’m getting by ok though. I’ve never done any off the cuff, “state of things” type of content before but here we go… Where have I been? Around. Doing things. Taking care…Dragon Quest3 min read
Mar 3I’m enjoying Elden Ring, and you can tooElden Ring is here, and it’s great! That being said, these games have always been lauded as unforgiving, and while I’m fairly familiar with most of From Software’s recent titles I’m not great at really any of them. Elden Ring is the first of their games to really “click” with…Elden Ring10 min read
Mar 1Onion Time: In which I talk about my favorite indie publisherI’m a simple man. I have two games on my phone. If my cousin asks what I got she has two options: Downwell and Million Onion Hotel. I can talk at length about the former but for now let me talk a bit about the latter. Embed in the…Gaming6 min read
Jan 5A MANIFESTO FOR ANIMALS 2K21: THE GAMES OF A YEARHere’s Privately Attack wheeling in the TV cart into the classroom in the form of short blurbs for every game I played in 2021. In this freestyle “HyperReview” format I likely won’t be making any grandiose statements and will keep pretentiousness down to a simmer. Let’s Enjoy Video Gaming!Videogames14 min read
Jan 1Time Is Dead: A Review of Shin Megami Tensei VThe following contains spoilers for the entirety of Shin Megami Tensei III and Shin Megami Tensei V’s story. Click here to read Part One, which contains no spoilers. Shin Megami Tensei is about meeting God. Shin Megami Tensei is about killing God. Shin Megami Tensei is about becoming God. …6 min read
Jan 1God Is Dead: A Review Of Shin Megami Tensei VLet’s go back to January of 2017. Nintendo was in a rough spot. The Wii U was a failure and they were holding on by the thread that was the 3DS. A few months prior they had revealed their handheld/home console hybrid called the “Nintendo Switch” but we still weren’t…Shin Megami Tensei19 min read
Nov 11, 2021Delightful Deception: My First Ten Hours With Dungeon EncountersGame design isn’t my passion, but as of late I’ve been noticing more and more how life bleeds into the games I play. Let’s take the grocery store for instance. You walk in and you’re usually thrown into the produce and market sections because the most perishable items need to…Jrpg11 min read
Oct 1, 2021Horror Fiction Double Feature: A look at Resident Evil Survivor and Resident Evil GaidenI’m fairly confident that you: the reader, and I: the writer, have established that the Resident Evil series of games are quite frankly, some of the best, campiest Science Fiction/Horror stories out there in the medium that are videogames. Many try to be like Resident Evil, and many fail. I’ve…Resident Evil18 min read
Sep 4, 2021Dimension of the Doomed: A Quake Retrospective- Part OneIt’s June 1996. You just got your paycheck and you’ve been looking forward to this game for a while now. All those hours this week pushing carts at Kroger have finally paid off. You walk into your local game store and do a short nod to the cashier as you…Id Software11 min read
Aug 25, 202132-bit Wonders: Six Playstation ClassicsI was a Nintendo kid. Before I would have a console to call my own I still found myself clinging to my cousins’ Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64. Even as a 4 year old I saw Nintendo as more “kid-friendly” than anything else. I would play Super Mario All Stars…Play Station17 min read
