The Undefeated Adversary… Never Enough Time: “The Endgame” (Part 2)
We all know the sound… I can’t fully articulate in a manner that will adequately convey it, but when we hear it, we just KNOW. Let me try… it goes […]
From Hero to Zero… Rayman’s “Rabbid” Journey and a Crisis of Faith
I try not to start these out with a “once upon a time” vibe, but it is kind of hard to take a look back at Rayman and his slow […]
Breaking the Game?: The Beating of the Donkey (Numbers 22)
I can’t quite put my finger on why this is true, but for as long as video games have existed gamers have been committed to finding a way to “break” […]
Mario Party Superstars: From Dream to Nightmare In One Bad Dice Roll (2 Kings 4)
My relationship with Mario Party is a one of a love/hate/HATE/like/HAAAAAATE, all depending on how the dice chooses to roll. Between the star-stealing antics of the boards themselves as well […]
Super Mario 3D World and a Second Touch: When the Mountain Doesn’t Move (Part Three – Mark 8:22-25)
If you didn’t get a chance to play Super Mario 3D World in its’ original incarnation, then you clearly did not own one of the 20 Nintendo WiiU systems that […]
Happy Mario Day: A “Daylight Savings” Hero Since 2002 (Joshua 1:8-9)
“Spring Forward” may be two of my least favorite words in the English language. Daylight Savings time lurks in the shadows of winter, hiding in plain sight using little tiny […]
Shattering the Facade: The Truth Behind Super Mario Bros. 2 (Romans 7:15-25, Romans 8:1-2)
As a self-proclaimed Nintendo fan-boy, it almost hurts to make this admission. I suppose I should have been able to figure it out on my own. Maybe I didn’t want […]
Prison Break and the Secret Life of Plumbers (Acts 16:22-34)
Mario may be the most well-known plumber in the history of the planet, which is ironic since I have never seen him do anything that seems remotely “plumberly”. But while […]
Mario’s Odyssey and the Bowser Within (1 Samuel 13)
It’s been a minute since we have had the pleasure of a true open-world Mario game (the last one was actually Super Mario Sunshine on the GameCube). And fortunately for […]
Mario Party Shenanigans and The First Time God Lost (Ezekiel 28:11-19)
There are certain consistent laws within the world of gaming that are not written in any tech manual nor are they engraved on stone tablets hidden somewhere in Silicon Valley, […]
Finding God in Video Games 