When you can’t cheat the game, you’d best find a means to cheat the players….
PS4
Learn this well, the last ride is never the last ride.
And the end is not the end.
-Richard Rowland
“Show a little more respect…
For Faerie Tales…”
-Sydney Losstarot, Vagrant Story
Mega Man 11 feels like going home. An old Rockman veteran critiques the latest Mega Man game with an eye on gimmicky gameplay.
With Gordon Ramsay-like culinary expertise and barely concealed existential rage, the Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage takes a peek at Overcooked! 2, which may or may not be as good as the first one.
Marvel’s Spider-Man may just be the greatest Spidey film ever made, but with great hype comes great responsibility.
Horizon Zero Dawn is a feast for fans of all things science fiction from Planet of the Apes to Terminator to Asimov’s Foundation.
Slime-san: Superslime Edition worms its way onto PS4 and it’s smarter, faster, and tougher than you. An evolutionary advantage.
Don’t be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don’t make the same mistake twice.
-Akio Morito, founder of Sony
Moonlighter asks the real questions: What happens when the lights go out in a normal RPG item shop? How do they get their wares?
Tired of the fast lane? Shape of the World is simple recreation, accessible entertainment, picturesque at best, and easy going.
This oceanic shmup can sate even the most earnest yearnings for exploration, but is there anything worth discovering in its simplicity?
The cycle of crafting and exploration remains unbroken but is there more to Smoke and Sacrifice than the Loop?
Pensive and unhurried, The Fall takes its time exploring its themes as you explore its darkest labyrinths.
Is Overcooked a fun couch co-op experience about the joy of creating delicious meals, or a treatise on the inevitable descent of all things into chaos? The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage says: why not both?
I can assure you with utmost confidence that no magical, fire-breathing dinosaurs were harmed in the making of this video game.
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
“When art is made new, we are made new with it.” -John Russell, The Meaning of…
“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
“Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible.” -Maurits Cornelis Escher …
“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
-Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“Amicus Plato amicus Aristoteles magis amica verita.”
(Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.)
-Sir Isaac Newton
“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn’t saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”
-Aaron Belz
“Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.”
-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
-William Feather
“Crash, Crash, Crash. Why must you always muck in my mud?”
-Doctor Neo Cortex, Crash Bandicoot: Warped
