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As you've probably heard, Igarashi's successor to Castlevania was announced and fully funded within a scant two hours. The bright roses-'n'-jewel-tones art design and gothloli aesthetic is proving a sticking point for me, partially because it's a bit removed from the mist-covered, slate-grey Transylvania we all know and love, and partially because ( Read more... )

- As you've probably heard through social media if you're into the series, Koji Igarashi has put up a teaser website for the coming Kickstarter to a Castlevania spiritual successor. For such a big announcement - the effective revival of classic Castlevania - it's gotten almost no formal press; SiliconEra reports on every single little teaser ( Read more... )

I ran across this article yesterday, where the author was discussing reactions to a previous piece where she expressed disappointment in an MMO storyline. She had received a couple of replies that went along the lines of this one: "Well, I guess because I have really, really low expectations of the storytelling in any video game. In thirty-five ( Read more... )

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Just a selection of some of my favorite game box covers. A warning in advance here: LiveJournal's odd formatting and my general ham-handedness when it comes to HTML and working with graphics might lead to some presentation issues when pairing my text with the images. Hopefully, though, the art here speaks for itself.
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I got called on GameFAQs "one articulate rasta." We have a new blog title!

I like this 999 fic for its small scope, choosing to ignore VLR to deal with the aftermath of the first game for a couple of characters in a comfortable (?) slice-of-life vignette. Seeing Snake and Clover portrayed well here makes me even more aggravated that the ( Read more... )

Hey, how've you been? I've had a pretty good Easter, in contrast to last Christmas. I burned a copy of the Mystic Ark soundtrack to accompany me on the drive to dinner, and I was in the process struck again by the score's idiosyncratic track names: "Your Eyes Are Always Beautiful When You Fight," "C'mon; Packed with Power, I'm Your Opponent!" and ( Read more... )