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Dragon Quest IV (Ch.1): Ragnar McRyan and the Case of the Missing Children
For the next few weeks, I'm going to be talking about Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen. You can find my first post on the game here. But here is the short version: DQIV is a great game, and probably one of my favorite in the series. The game is divided up into...
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Happy (digital) holidays
Happy Easter everyone! I won't drone on too long, we've all got eggs to hunt and pastel clothes to wear. And depending on the games you play, you may have noticed that it's Easter -- or some vaguely seasonal pastel-flavored, egg and bunny themed holiday -- in your...
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Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen–Intro to the Zenithia Trilogy
For the next several weeks, I'll be discussing Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen, which I played on the Nintendo DS. It's the first entry in the Zenithia Trilogy (which comprises Dragon Quest IV, V, and VI). It was a great game--perfectly merging the great...
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And Now for Something Different: Dragon Quest Monsters+
These past few months, I've been talking a lot about the mainline Dragon Quest series, but this week I want to discuss something a little different: the Dragon Quest Monsters+ manga. It's a continuation of the Dragon Quest Monsters games, which featured Terry from...
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Decisions, decisions: The crossroads of story and choice
If you read last week's blog post about Pokemon (which, is here if you missed it) you'll know that I'm big on games that present interesting decisions to players. It's what, at the core, defines a good game to me. But when I talk about this concept with friends,...
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Redeeming Qualities of Dragon Quest VII
Last week, I talked about how massively disappointed I was with Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past. If you haven't read it already, you can find it here. I mentioned last week that there was at least one redeeming quality about this game, and today I'd...
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Pokémon’s (grassy) Route to Success
When my mom took me to Walmart to purchase a copy of Pokémon Blue on release day in September of 1998 (I was 11) with money that I had saved up my allowance for months to purchase, there's no way she could have known that this little $40 game you played on a dual-tone...
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Hello Wrold: My History in Amateur GameDev
Amateur GameDev is a hobby and a passion, and here’s how DJ Pimp Daddy started out and where he’s going.
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It Was Bound to Happen Eventually: Playing Dragon Quest VII!
I love Dragon Quest! You know I do. After playing four of them this year (and it's only March!), I was beginning to wonder if I'd find a DQ game I didn't love. It was bound to happen eventually, right? There had to be a black sheep in the family--one game that just...
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