Year: 2014
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When I was a little boy, I would occasionally find myself daydreaming about buying a wooden storage shed and living in it. All I would need to survive was a small refrigerator, a microwave, and my Sega Genesis. I would be able to live on my own terms: carefree and independent.
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I played through Persona 3 FES last summer. It was nice to have one big RPG to focus on for the entire season. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Persona 3 is such a fantastic game. When I taught my final lesson and submitted the last grades of the semester, I was pretty excited play…
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I’m not a movie critic, but I do know that this film moved me in a very profound way. It was so much more significant to me now than it was when my mom was shooing me out of the room during the scene when Forrest touches a naked breast for the first time.
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People love Secret of Mana, and I’m not sure why. I’ve heard it consistently spoken of in discussions of classic 16-bit roleplaying games, alongside such luminaries as Final Fantasy 6, Phantasy Star 4, Earthbound, and Chrono Trigger. To be honest, I don’t think that Secret of Mana is even remotely as enjoyable as any of…