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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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The Sequel Part 2: The Sequencing
Welcome back to my multi-part blog post on sequels! Sorry for the wait last week, there was a lot to juggle and honestly I couldn't put off cutting the grass any longer and that took forever because my area had a flood a few weeks prior so it was like clearing jungle....
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Let’s Play Yo-Kai Watch!
Yo-Kai Watch is a series you've probably heard of but maybe never played. You might know it as "that Pokemon-type game that Level-5 makes," or maybe even "Shin Megami Tensei's charming kid brother," as Polygon's Allegra Frank once called it. You've probably at least...
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Playing Dragon Quest 3 (Part Three): Saying Farewell to a Legendary Hero
This is the final post on Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation. Last week, I warned against spoilers for the last half of the post. Well, this whole post is basically one big spoiler. I know this game is thirty-one years old, but if you want to play DQ3 without...
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