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In the Cards – Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories
This article contains spoilers for Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. In the summer of 2005, only months after I played Kingdom Hearts all the way through for the first time and fell in love with it, I picked up a copy of Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories for the Game Boy Advance. At the time I was very fond of 2D pixel art. I had seen a lot of it expressively used within…
Why I Never Covered Games Like This Before – Dissidia Duellum Final Fantasy
To start, I must be up front about something: I do not typically enjoy free-to-play gacha games on phones. The monetisation within them has too much of an impact on my experience. Their sales pitches are too brazen and as a result I don’t take in the artistry, I see a product. In between moments of play it’s like I’m in a store full of aggressive sales people. I see the deliberate attempts to…
A Bigger Problem - Dragon Quest VII Reimagined
This article contains spoilers for Dragon Quest VII, both in its older and newly remade forms. I have no experience with the original Playstation release of Dragon Quest VII, known otherwise as Dragon Warrior VII due to trademark issues that have since been resolved. It was never released in the UK, so it wasn’t on my radar initially, but when I did become aware of the game, it seemed…
Environmental Storytelling - Chrono Cross
This article contains spoilers for Chrono Cross and its prequel Chrono Trigger. What if someone told you that for the sake of a better world, you would no longer exist? In fact, not only yourself, but everyone you ever knew, every place you ever visited, the whole world you lived in would be gone so that other people could build something better in its place. No one is asking for this, they are…
Experience Changes the Game - Kingdom Hearts Final Mix
It was my twelfth birthday. I used some money I got from some relatives to buy Kingdom Hearts for the Playstation 2, the “Platinum” release with its of-the-era silver and black box (the UK equivalent of America’s “Greatest Hits” releases). It had been out for a few years, and I had almost bought it on a few occasions before this, but there were also cheaper games that also looked fun. This time I…
It Starts With One – Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake
This article contains spoilers for Dragon Quest I, II, and III in both their original and HD-2D Remake forms. It is worth noting that these new remakes have plenty of additional narrative with new twists, so those only familiar with the originals may want to be careful about reading this. The first three Dragon Quest games have been re-released many times, but not with many changes. There are…
The Truth of Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles
This article contains spoilers. From its original incarnation, Final Fantasy Tactics has always been about truth. It’s a story told in retrospect from the fictional historian Arazlam. He tells the player that the accepted accounts of the War of the Lions are false. The truth twisted to suit religious organisations that hold power on the land of Ivalice. He has found documents, the Durai papers,…
Thief of Joy – Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
This article contains spoilers for the entire game. To begin with I think it’s worth establishing some context around particular styles of role-playing games (RPGs). Normally there’s a distinction made between computer and console games that are still a little too broad. I would like to focus more on the console side, though admittedly in still somewhat broad terms but I think it will still get…
Returning to the Start - Pokémon Yellow
A little over 25 years ago I was introduced to a new cartoon, Pokémon. It was bright and colourful, and had enough action sequences to keep six-year-old me entertained. My parents took note of this, and for my seventh birthday, they bought me a Game Boy Color and a copy of Pokémon Red. This was one of the first videogames I ever owned. Because it was a first, there were a lot of things I didn’t…
Here Because of History - Dragon Age: The Veilguard
This article contains spoilers. I’m only human. I can’t help but have my feelings on something coloured by a context that surrounds it. Back in 2009 I played Dragon Age: Origins, and I followed up with the series each time a new one came out. The third game, Dragon Age: Inquisition released in 2014, burned me out with its open world bloat, but it still endeared me with its characters. It’s been…
A Window Into a Heist - Radical Dreamers – Le Trésor Interdit
This article contains spoilers. I’ve played through Chrono Trigger multiple times and I have a huge fondness for Chrono Cross, but it was only recently that I even considered playing the game in between them: Radical Dreamers – Le Trésor Interdit. It’s not as if it’s a huge undertaking, as the game only lasts for a couple of hours. Maybe it was down to my unfamiliarity with the genre. I don’t…
Not the Same Experiences - Final Fantasy Ports
Do you ever feel like you played the right game in the wrong place? I had that when I revisited Final Fantasy IX on the Switch a few years ago. It’s a decent game but that was not the platform to choose for it. At first I had some issues adjusting to the layout of the Switch face buttons, where “accept” is on the right side. My years of using control schemes where “accept” is at the bottom caused…
Take Your Time - Chrono Trigger
Parts of Chrono Trigger work a little like a magic trick. It’s best to see those in action before learning about how they work. Turn-based role-playing games often have strongly player-driven pacing, especially within the more traditional games. There’s always time to think between each battle decision. Outside of combat they often involve an adventure-game-like structure which goes nowhere…
Reflections on my Almost Five Years of Final Fantasy
This article will mention story elements of various Final Fantasy games, with major spoilers for Final Fantasy X and XV. Today marks five years since I published my first article about Final Fantasy on this website. On that day I had no idea what that would lead to. From the start of 2020 until around the end of 2024 I was spending a lot of time playing and writing about the Final Fantasy…
Did We Need All This Space? - Mass Effect: Andromeda
A phrase that annoyed me for a while was whether a game “respected my time”. It’s something I used to hear a lot on videogame podcasts, and admittedly the reason I might not hear it so much now is that I just don’t listen to as many podcasts on the subject these days. I always thought it was directed at games that were simply just long, most often RPGs because those used to be the long ones (it’s…
Something Conclusive - Mass Effect 3
I respect endings, especially when they’re conclusive. They don’t need to be comprehensive, as it often leads to rushing closure, but I can appreciate the finality of everything being wrapped up. Endings are one of the things I get more excited for within games. They’re hardly ever the best part, but there’s something incredibly appealing about finishing something. Mass Effect 3 is a fairly…
What is Commander Shepard? - Mass Effect 2
This article contains spoilers for Mass Effect 1 and 2. When I play a videogame with a player-created character, I don’t feel as though I am playing a version of myself. Even when I’ve named them after me, attempted to give them my face, that’s still another person staring back at me. I believe my experience with the Mass Effect series being my earlier experience with that type of play set…
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