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Achievements of the Week – The Highly Trained Old School Gamer Edition
Honestly, I didn’t expect much in terms of Achievements this week considering I was without my Xbox 360 for three-fourths of it thanks to that crazy October snowstorm. In case you didn’t know, power outages and console gaming don’t get … Continue reading
See what horrors The Doll Shop holds at your own risk
Naturally, I was drawn to The Doll Shop for its beautiful watercolor artwork and depiction of life in the Japanese countryside, not its focus on dolls. I’m not into dolls in general, but I’m really not into dolls that look … Continue reading
Posted in entertainment, impressions, musings, videogames
Tagged adventure, Adventure Creator, Atelier Sentô, free, horror, indie, itcho.io, point and click, The Doll Shop, Unity, visual novel
Grinding Down’s Top 10 Games of 2018
2018 has certainly been an interesting year, and not just in terms of videogames. I definitely did not complete as many as I have in the past, eventually giving up entirely on my idea to do little drawings to go … Continue reading
Posted in entertainment, lists, musings, videogames
Tagged All Our Asias, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, Daybreak, Detective Pikachu, Fortnite, Fortnite Battle Royale, free, free-to-play, Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle, Harvest Seasons, House Flip with Chip and Joanna, Legendary Gary, LEGO Incredibles, Mark of the Ninja, Mark of the Ninja: Remastered, Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Starlink, Starlink: Battle for Atlas, State of Decay 2, Steam, Subnautica
The Top 10 Videogames I Didn’t Get to Play in 2018
Well, here we are once again…the end of a year, and boy howdy has this been one strange, life-changing year. For those that don’t know, this past July I was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer. At the ripe age … Continue reading
Posted in entertainment, life, lists, musings, nintendo 3DS, playstation 4, randomness, videogames, xbox one
Tagged Bethesda, cancer, Donut County, Dragon Quest XI, Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age, engaged, Fallout 76, God of War, Grinding Down, Into the Breach, love, Minit, Red Dead Redemption 2, Return of the Obra Dinn, Spider-Man, Stan Lee, Unavowed, Wadjet Eye Games
Return home to familial strangeness with Azurael’s Circle: Chapter 1
I am one of those people that grew up in the ’90s reading those various More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books by Alvin Schwartz, and, yes, I was extremely disappointed when they got reissued with all new … Continue reading
Posted in entertainment, impressions, musings, videogames
Tagged adventure, Azurael's Circle, free, free-to-play, horror, Jordan Allen, mystery, PC, pixel hunting, point and click, puzzles, RPGMaker, Steam
Life never really finds a way in LEGO Jurassic World
It used to feel good to hit 100.0% completion in these sundry LEGO games. It was a victory well-earned, through being meticulous and dedicated and clever. You go back into levels you already played, now with a crew of varying … Continue reading
Korgan’s an uninspired dungeon-crawler, but easy 1,000 Gamerscore
There are a lot of free games floating around like tiny desperate dust motes up in the digital entertainment industry’s night sky these days. Many more than a couple years ago. Some are good, some are great, and many are … Continue reading
Posted in achievements, entertainment, impressions, musings, randomness, RPGs, videogames, xbox one
Tagged Achievements, Codestalkers, dungeon crawler, episodic, fantasy, free, free-to-play, gamerscore, hack and slash, Korgan, loot, The Shadow Legion
Slay away as Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle
As a young lad, many of the sleepovers with my then best friend resulted in us exploring the nearby woods at night, playing games together on our respective consoles–his a Sega Genesis and mine a SNES–and renting horror films to … Continue reading
To escape Subject 13, Franklin Fargo must defeat Minesweeper
I purchased Subject 13 recently during Xbox’s Spring Sale for a couple of reasons: 1) it was cheap, coming it at a mighty low $2.80 2) it was billed as a traditional point-and click adventure game and 3) the graphics, … Continue reading
Posted in entertainment, impressions, musings, randomness, videogames, xbox one
Tagged adventure, Flashback, Franklin Fargo, Microids, Minesweeper, mystery, pathing, Paul Cuisset, pixel hunting, point and click, puzzles, Subject 13
