If you don’t like peas, it is probably because you have not had them fresh.
-Lemony Snicket
Platformer
How do you interpret this game? Is your interpretation the correct one? The answer is not black and white. It’s GRIS.
Oniken: Unstoppable Edition proves that the folks over at JoyMasher really do understand retro. This is an authentic retro action experience!
Porky Pig’s Haunted Holiday reminds us that even on the mighty SNES, some memories are better off left buried.
“Enter at your own peril! Past the bolted door where impossible things may happen, that the world’s never seen before!”
-Dexter’s Laboratory: End Credits
Mega Man 11 feels like going home. An old Rockman veteran critiques the latest Mega Man game with an eye on gimmicky gameplay.
“I just had to escape, I just had to be free,
And I didn’t even know, I had a destiny…”
-Abe
Slime-san: Superslime Edition worms its way onto PS4 and it’s smarter, faster, and tougher than you. An evolutionary advantage.
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
-L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz
I may not look like much, but I’m an expert at trying to be a ninja.
-Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right
One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed – as those who take to the water change – and told me she had never died. Instead, she had gone to a spot her dead son had learned about, and had leaped to a realm whose wonders – destined for him as well – he had spurned with a smoking pistol. This was to be my realm, too – I could not escape it. I would never die, but would live with those who had lived since before man ever walked the earth.
-H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth
After all, if your arch-nemesis kidnapped your best friend in front of your very eyes and left a ransom note demanding six magical gems in exchange for their life, you’d be inclined to do whatever it takes to get that person back, wouldn’t you?
It is not about “life after death” as such. Rather, it’s a way of talking about being bodily alive again after a period of being bodily dead. Resurrection is a second-stage postmortem life: “life after ‘life after death’.”
-N.T. Wright
“Nintendo games are for children and you should be ashamed for playing them as an adult”. Guess what? They don’t care.
Nintendo censorship, a story from my childhood I’ve never told, and playing Castlevania for the first time ever.
Cut from the same cloth as previous Kirby adventures, Epic Yarn is sew good, at least it seams that way to me… but let’s not get a thread of ourselves… is it a “kiddie” game? Quilty as charged.
The emptiness of the cave where once his sweet but pilfered potassium-ey treasures lay put a mirror against the howling vacuity of his gorilla longing, and so DK and Diddy embark on a quest fueled by the awesome rage of revenge.
“Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks. People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.”
―Karen Hines, Drama: Pilot Episode
“God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
Why look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bow
I shot the albatross.”
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Marine
“The chief beauty about time
is that you cannot waste it in advance.
The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you,
as perfect, as unspoiled,
as if you had never wasted or misapplied
a single moment in all your life.”
―Arnold Bennett
“I am not omniscient, but I know a lot.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust: First Part
“Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica verita.”
(Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.)
-Sir Isaac Newton
“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
“Above all, video games are meant to be just one thing: Fun for everyone.”
-Satoru Iwata
“We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like.”
-Dave Ramsey
