Narrative Exploration Blog: ‘Chrono Trigger’
Chrono Trigger, One of the Greatest Stories Told in the Medium In the discussion about video games as art, one subject that almost never comes...
Author : Mark Sylvia
‘Final Fantasy VIII’: Squall Leonhart and the Art of Growth
Final Fantasy VIII is an excellent entry in the long-running franchise, if not the most polarizing. One of the most compelling aspects of the game is...
The Top 7 Final Fantasy Games
Ranking the Best Final Fantasy Games Final Fantasy is one of the most financially successful video game franchises of all time, and perhaps the most...
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Inside the Narrative of ‘Final Fantasy X’
Final Fantasy X has perhaps one of the densest stories in the entire franchise, and perhaps the most interesting fantasy setting since J.R.R. Tolkien literally...
Batman: Arkham City: Five Years After the Bat’s Worst Night
On August 25, 2009, a little-known developer called Rocksteady Games created what was considered at the time the greatest superhero-based video game, Batman: Arkham Asylum, based...
Thoughts about the current generation (of gaming)
Of all of the generations of video gaming, particularly on the console side, there hasn’t been one that has garnered more apathy than the eight...
‘Def Jam: Fight for NY’ and the Art of Battle
Video games are weird, and none come any weirder than the hip-hop-influenced fighter, Def Jam: Fight for NY. The background of this often forgotten gem...
‘Donkey Kong Country’ – An Instant Classic and One of the All-Time Greatest Games
People tend to forget this largely because now it’s considered the greatest game console of all time, but there was a time where the Super...
‘Super Castlevania IV’ – Does it hold up, twenty five years later?
In late September of 1987, Tokyo-based game development company Konami released Castlevania for the Nintendo Family Computer (or Famicom) in Japan. One of the first...