After forming pacts with the Summons Spirits of Wind and Earth, acquiring the Horn of a Unicorn sleeping at the bottom of a lake, returning to my childhood home to obtain an Exsphere shard, and reviving the Linkite Tree – the nuts of which play a beautiful song when rattled by the wind that attracts… Continue reading Tales of Symphonia – Pathetic
Category: Thoughts
Xenogears: Hostage to a homily
A spaceship crashes. A serene woman emerges from the wreckage. Many millennia later, a mountain village is engulfed in flames cause by giant war machines in a skirmish between two neighboring empires. There lives an amnesiac man who first arrived dying in the arms of a masked man. In three years he earns the admiration… Continue reading Xenogears: Hostage to a homily
The New Torres Christmas Canon
{ Previously: The Greatest Christmas Songs of All Time } The Theme to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service December 18, 2017 Welcome to the 2018 inductees to the Torres Christmas Canon. As a discerning connoisseur of the Christmas Spirit, it’s easy to become inured to the joys of the traditional Christmas canon after so much… Continue reading The New Torres Christmas Canon
The Greatest Christmas Songs of All Time
20. Christmastime is Here December 1, 2016 Welcome to Day One of Terry’s 25 Days of the Best Christmas Songs Ever, where I’ll attempt to define the breadth and depth of the Meaning of Christmas through music. Naturally you’re thinking, “Are there even 25 GOOD Christmas songs, let alone ones that could be called The… Continue reading The Greatest Christmas Songs of All Time
Persona 5 is great, but its characters…
Current in-game date: 5/27 I know a lot of people are, rightly, ragging on the translation. But, honestly, I think the original script is open to criticism, too. The characters – at least in the first two months – just aren’t real or interesting or consistent enough. I think it’s totally fair to compare them… Continue reading Persona 5 is great, but its characters…
United States Gun Culture in Parasite Eve
On Day 3 of Parasite Eve’s six day journey, during a sequence of events that are peaceful as they are chilling, our blonde, blue-eyed hero Detective Aya Brea is joined by her hot-blooded partner Detective Daniel Dollis on a stroll through an evacuated Manhattan seeking to liberate resources from abandoned businesses to use in their… Continue reading United States Gun Culture in Parasite Eve
Tifa and Aeris
There is one single moment that tells you everything you need to know about Tifa and Aeris, and the kind of people they are. The calculations that go into deciding who Cloud dates at the Golden Saucer is based on how many invisible “affinity points” a given character has. Based on certain actions and dialogue… Continue reading Tifa and Aeris
Robin Williams and the Hero of Time
In my mind, this commercial was for A Link Between Worlds, not Ocarina of Time. For me, as Zelda games go, Robin Williams is more strongly connected to A Link Between Worlds. Because here was the first celebrity death in my life to make me shed tears and the first Zelda game to make me… Continue reading Robin Williams and the Hero of Time
In defense of Nash from Lunar
You don’t know Nash, because you didn’t play Lunar, but you can assume that he is a complete douchebag. [Trigger Warning: Nash.] You meet Nash in a forest, stuck under one of those stick-and-box traps from cartoons. He is obviously a huge idiot, but he pretends that he’s not only not an idiot, but incredibly… Continue reading In defense of Nash from Lunar
The Torres Bros. Podcast Review: Bioshock Infinite
Tim, Brendan, and I haven’t round-tabled about a game since The Third Birthday, but as soon as Tim finished Bioshock Infinite, we had to have it out. Trigger warning for people who like Bioshock Infinite. Bioschlock Infinitum Part 1: Two Ways of Spelling the Same Game We tackle the introduction, “racism”, Columbia, combat, Elizabeth as… Continue reading The Torres Bros. Podcast Review: Bioshock Infinite