Well we’ve reached the end of April! And while I didn’t expect anything Earth-shattering to happen this month due to NaNoRenO wrapping up, the times we live in managed to surprise me. We have quite a few titles to go through, including one that has been awaited by fans of a certain gaming site for […]
One of the rare pleasures that can come for any critic is to see a piece of media overcome preconceptions and become more than the sum of its parts. It occurs more in mainstream gaming because genres bleed over far more: especially in First Person Shooters which is still gaming’s bread and butter. So when […]
Just to be fair to everyone, the following review discusses several themes in Atom Grrrl that can be offensive to some readers; including racial slurs, graphically described violence, sexual assault and other unsettling material. I talk about all of this with examples so please keep that in mind. Have you ever read or watched a […]
Ghost in the Shell is, without a doubt, one of the icons of modern animation. Any conversation about influential anime in the West that doesn’t include the franchise (along with Akira, Cowboy Bebop and Gundam) isn’t a real conversation. The series is a mixture of philosophy and action that has yet to be competently replicated in […]
I’m always interested whenever someone attempts to portray humanity in a realistic way. We like to romanticize our behavior and attitudes to one another in order to promote the ideal of decency. And while that’s not always who we are, portraying humanity any other way risks alienating the audience. It’s a fine line to walk […]
This match is, on paper, straight forward. One is a demonic being desperate to stave off impeding hunger and the other is someone’s Shih Tzu (I think it’s a Shih Tzu anyway) explaining the American tax code. Something tells me we’ll be done with this one pretty quickly. NaNo VNs all set? Ready? GO! […]
And so, the Madness begins. Before we begin, let’s go over the rules shall we? This is a ‘competitive review’ series where I am competing with myself to finish all of the NaNoRenO projects for 2016. I’m sure some will not like the format, but if it keeps me going it keeps me going. And with […]
Well folks we’ve made it to April. NaNoRenO is in the books with a few developers still hard at work. I’ll be getting into the completed games on April 8th: the cutoff day on the Itch.Io NaNoRenO page. You can keep track of the entries (as of today we have forty-eight entries) there. In the […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: YES , for anyone still wondering, this was an April Fool’s Joke. But it’s fun to pretend AJT and his crew managed to do a complete 180 isn’t it? So, last year I played a series of games from Dharker Studios; formerly AJ Tilley.com. To say I was harsh on those titles is […]