Sonic Adventure: An Action Stage for Every Season
As much as I loved Sonic’s first foray into 3D gaming in the Sonic Adventure series, there were still parts that I wouldn’t have minded skipping. For example, playing through […]
Backwards Compatibility: Balancing Truth With Love
Backwards compatibility is typically one of the most controversial topics during a new console announcement… when Sony launched the PS2, it was fully compatible with the full library of PS1 […]
Gran Turismo: An Instruction Irritation
As someone who wasn’t into racing simulation games, I never tried a Gran Turismo title until I found a secondhand copy of Gran Turismo 2 on sale at a local […]
PaRappa the Rapper: You Just Gotta Believe!
There isn’t a rhythm-based game out there quite like Sony’s “PaRappa the Rapper”, a story about a rapping, two-dimensional dog that predates almost all of the music-based titles that made […]
Bucky Barnes: A “Winter Soldier” No More
While every Marvel character has a complicated backstory of some kind, Bucky Barnes is in a league of his own. Sure, Iron Man was a selfish, greedy war profiteer and […]
Sue Storm: An “Invisibility” Issue
While each member of the Fantastic Four were transformed in some pretty visually obvious and remarkable ways, Sue Storm was altered in the completely opposite direction, becoming the “Invisible Woman”. […]
Mr. Fantastic: “Stretching” Beyond our Comfort Zones
Reed Richards already possessed an incredible gift to help humanity in the form of his genius level intellect, but it was the accident that gave him his “stretching powers” that […]
The Secret to Defeating Galactus
While the Marvel multiverse certainly has its fair share of villains bent on ruling their respective worlds, Galactus is in a class of his own… he isn’t here to conquer […]
Spider-Man: The Bite that Becomes Our Calling
On the surface, there isn’t much difference between Peter Parker’s Spider-Man and the gallery of rogues he is frequently forced to deal with… each suffered devastating personal losses and endured […]
A Backstory that Conceals the Destiny?
Protagonists in video games don’t always have a backstory that indicates what their destiny will contain… who would have ever expected that a simple plumber named Mario would embark on […]
Finding God in Video Games 