Star Wars “Bad Batch”: Defective Design or Fearfully and Wonderfully Made?
One of my favorite spin-offs to come from the animated Star Wars: Clone Wars series is the “Bad Batch” … a group of “failed” clones who were deemed unfit to […]
Kingdom Hearts: Coping With the Inflexibility of a “Save Point System”
Unlike most modern titles that typically allow us to save our game anytime and anywhere that we want to, Kingdom Hearts sticks to a rigid “save point” system that forces […]
Answering Halo’s Real Question: What Would the Master Chief Do?
While each title in the original Halo trilogy has a small amount of exploration in it, the central storyline remains a linear experience. If we want to make progress, we […]
Master Chief’s Missing Pockets: A Disadvantage by Design?
For all of Master Chief’s advantages over his video game peers, he possesses a “limitation” that most of them don’t share. While gaming protagonists like Solid Snake carry an entire […]
Sora: Under-Qualified but Uniquely Gifted
Sora was a very unlikely protagonist when we were introduced to him in the first Kingdom Hearts game… small, young, with no combat skills to speak of and barely able […]
Finding God in Video Games 