It’s hard for me to consume stories about war; they’re simply too far removed from my own experience. Enter VA-11 Hall-A.
[Keywords] VA-11 Hall-A and Low Perspective
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[Keywords] Stars Align and Rock Bottom
Stars Align is available on Hulu and on Funimation’s website. Everybody loves a comeback story. Someone gets up and fights back when they’re down and against the ropes? That’s inspiring. There’s good reason why basically every sports story uses it to some degree or...
[Keywords] Untitled Goose Game and Expression
Untitled Goose Game is the best role-playing game I played in 2019.
Sure, it’s billed as a puzzle and a stealth game. But at its core, it has the purest form of video-game sandbox that I’ve experienced in years.
[Keywords] Pokémon Twilight Wings and Credit
Pokémon: Twilight Wings is available to watch for free on YouTube. The very first thing to excite me about Pokémon: Twilight Wings was its staff. Studio Colorido blew me over last summer with Penguin Highway, a backyard adventure chock-full of hyper-charming and...
[Keywords] Xenogears and Ambition
Xenogears was ahead of its time in a lot of ways; crucially, that its development cycle reads like that of a modern Kickstarter-funded game.
[Keywords] A Certain Scientific Railgun and Designated Protagonists
Stock characters are, generally, delightful. The exception tends to be protagonists, and for all I love anime, it suffers a lot from lead characters being the flattest members of their casts.