Theology Gaming Posts

March 13, 2014 / / Essays
March 12, 2014 / / Essays

NOTE: Spoilers ahoy!

I am not happy.

One year, twenty-plus hours later, I have completed Fire Emblem Awakening. I spent hours upon hours fighting for the Halidom of Ylisse. I grew to love the characters just as one would with a good book. Yet, in the final levels of the game, the developers violated the rules they had set up from the beginning.

March 11, 2014 / / Reviews

Tiny Barbarian DX, as per the name, recreates the familiar Conan the Barbarian setting into video game form – although certainly in a way appealing to nostalgia for those of us who know what “8-bit” or “16-bit” means. Think platforming with a barely-there combat system; in fact, the first thing I imagined while playing was Actraiser, of all things.