Austin King

Is "The Lost Mine of Phandelver" the best D&D for beginners? It's a cohesive, fun, and well-written introduction to Fifth Edition. So yes.

When Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity was first announced, I was a little skeptical. I loved Breath of the Wild, even if it wasn't my favorite Legend of Zelda game. A prequel sounded cool -but musou games are a mixed bag. I'd never played the first Hyrule Warriors game, even…

Okay, so PlayStation 5 pre-orders were kind of a mess. But amidst all the chaos, confusion, excitement, and anger that came with PS5 pre-orders, I learned a valuable lesson about friendship. Cue the sappy, moral-at-the-end-of-the-story music here if you want. But I really mean it. PS5 pre-orders taught me a…

I recently received the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set from a work promotion. It seemed like the perfect time to start a family campaign, especially considering all the social distancing we've been practicing. There was just one small hitch: the only people I could play the game with was my…

Hey, I'm a sucker for art books. The last time I counted, I had something like fifty video game art books on my shelf–a good chunk of them from Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, and Xeno games. And since I love art books so much, and since Dragon Quest is my…

A little over a year ago, I played Dragon Quest VII for the first time. I found the 3DS version to be slow, so I started up the PS1 version (which was supposedly even slower) just to see if it grabbed me more. It didn't. In fact, I struggled with…

The Nintendo Switch is a little over three years old, and it's already established itself as a real JRPG powerhouse. Whether you're into the latest entries of Dragon Quest and Xenoblade Chronicles, or you want to play through classics like Star Ocean and Grandia and Final Fantasy, or maybe you…

A while back, I wrote about how to play the free trial version of Dragon Quest X on the Nintendo Switch. You can read about that here, if you want. Since then, lots of folks have asked me additional questions about the game as well as sending me some info…

Since I wrote about how to play Dragon Quest X on the Switch for free, and then how to keep playing once “Easy Play” is over without losing your character data, this time around I wanted to show folks how to subscribe to the MMO. Step One – Purchase the…

Recently, I purchased an official Dragon Quest VII guidebook from Viz. It's completely in Japanese (which I can't read), but it did feature an interview with Yuji Horii at the beginning. Unlike a lot of posts, where I talk about my thoughts on the games, this is just kinda me…