Collected thoughts on the remaining Nintendo-developed 2D Metroid games—and also the highest profile fan remake, for good measure. And after that, my rankings for the whole series!
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Everyone who has ever told me this game was too old and clunky is wrong. Metroid II rocks.
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Why the existence of a well-liked remake doesn't mean the 1986 original is a waste of your time (even when it does kind of enjoy wasting your time).
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How my most anticipated game of 2024 ended up being kind of a slog that failed to capture what I love about the original Final Fantasy VII.
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My review of the flawed but intriguingly different followup to the 2010 cult classic, which has a lot to love if you approach it with an open mind. Come listen to me gush about its pixel art and soundtrack!
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Clearly the result of development hell, but it's not that bad of a game. It's fine.
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I've returned to Hazbin Hotel for a followup review! Season 2 is a marked improvement in many ways, but is it enough to outweigh the show's continued issues with its tone, themes, and politics?
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After a few weeks of playing, it's clear that this is the best Sonic racing game ever... but when it's so close to perfection, it makes the few aspects that are lacking only stand out to me.
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Learn about my favorite games in this massive anthology, some of which have forever changed how I engage with retro games.
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Yes, the one with jump jump slide slide. I'm serious.
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The TOS movies, the TNG movies, the "Kelvin Timeline" movies, and, yes, even the dreadful new Section 31. My ranking of that last one will shock you. (It won't.)
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My full thoughts on Sonic 3, a fun popcorn flick with a lot of Sonic Adventure 2 fanservice that's also still very much The Third Paramount Sonic Movie, for good and for ill.
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Yes, this is primarily an excuse for me to gush about Daniel Warren Johnson's Transformers and Ryan North's Fantastic Four.
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A decent sidescroller that drove me a little crazy and made me consider where the line between loving homage and shameless copy lies.
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Comparing and contrasting the ways the three versions of the series portray Vash as a character, with both anime adaptations taking the source material in very different directions.
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When judged purely in terms of its faithfulness as an adaptation of the Sonic games, this is quite possibly the franchise's worst adaptation ever. It's often barely even about Knuckles.
...So then why do I kinda like it?
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Some thoughts on why I didn't particularly enjoy a certain cartoon set in Hell. Just a few.
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This last batch of episodes has left me feeling disappointed with the show as a whole, though maybe not for the exact same reasons the fandom focused on.
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This is mostly me nitpicking the writing, if I'm being honest.
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