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RIP Akira Toriyama
It was the summer of 1996. A younger version of myself waltzed into a rip-off blockbuster, one of those family owned joints that often gets conflated with Hollywood Video, and was struck by the cover artwork of one game in particular. Chrono Trigger. It drew me in like a siren’s song. It just looked so…
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Final Fantasy IV: The Next Generation
A thorough glance at the fourth mainline entry of the Final Fantasy franchise
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The Best Sort of Sendoff
Note: This article contains spoilers for Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. For reference, I am in Chapter 10 of the game right now, so this won’t contain end-game spoilers. This is instead a look at what happens in the “Memoirs of a Dragon” portion of the game. It’s risky writing this before I finish playing,…
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Final Fantasy III: End of the Famicom Era
A thorough glance at the third mainline entry of the Final Fantasy franchise
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Final Fantasy and Accepting the Warts of Age
A thorough glance at the first mainline entry of the Final Fantasy franchise
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Mortal Kombat 1’s Story is Embarrassing
NOTE: I will be spoiling the Mortal Kombat 1 story mode, I’m not giving warnings after this. If you want to see it for yourself, please do so before reading this. Mortal Kombat 9 is one of my favorite stories in a video game. It takes the outline of the first three Mortal Kombat games…
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