Alright I promised I'd leave this alone but someone made a really great comment on that last post and I'm somewhat afraid that it might not get read. Plus it's actually a somewhat different line of thinking from the "FF is dead (to me and only me)" line of thinking. Plus it's a reason for… Continue reading Dress for Success
Category: Games Criticism
Dispatch From the Bureau of Critical Vitriol
Okay I don't like getting into blog fights where people asynchronously duke it out without ever engaging each other, but I don't know Chris Kohler personally and I am... disinclined to battle it out with him on Twitter, 140 characters at a time, while I infuriate everyone who follows me, him, or both. So when… Continue reading Dispatch From the Bureau of Critical Vitriol
Tropes vs Women in Chinese Historical Fiction (Also Games)
Warning: I try to make things non-referency as possible but some fluency with the broad-scale events of the Three Kingdoms novel will be very helpful interpreting this post's specifics. Alright, so I'm actually a big Dynasty Warriors series fan. Almost all the Musou games, actually; the exception is Hokuto no Ken Musou ("Fist of the North Star") and Troy Musou which… Continue reading Tropes vs Women in Chinese Historical Fiction (Also Games)
Reach Out to A Particular Contextual Version of the Truth
Right so last night Riot Games researcher and smart guy Davin Pavlas and I had a discussion about Kanji Tatusmi, one of the main characters of Persona 4. Specifically we discussed some of the ways in which his personal story is interpreted along both sexual orientation and gender presentation lines, and along the way I aired a… Continue reading Reach Out to A Particular Contextual Version of the Truth
You Knew This Was Coming If You Were Paying Any Attention
Right, I've about had it. Let me set some context for this blog post: I'm listening to "Blinded by Light" -- aka Final Fantasy XIII's default battle music and riff on Lightning's character theme -- on loop while I write it. So, you know. Strap in. So this happened: To be more literal about it: ever since… Continue reading You Knew This Was Coming If You Were Paying Any Attention
Musica Mundana — Secular Christian Rock
So back when I was first making these posts I joked on Twitter about the silly directions this could go. One of those directions was an explanation of how the soundtrack to Subarashiki Kono Sekai (aka The World Ends With You) is basically Christian rock with the references to God/Jesus/religion removed. Well guess what, internet: I'm bored,… Continue reading Musica Mundana — Secular Christian Rock
Why I’m A Mass-market Sellout Whore
Right, so Aevee Bee wrote a very interesting short blog post on "The Case for Never Talking About AAA Games." I read it and I think in many ways she is spot on, but there's a couple of places where I disagree, and have been urged to do so by various Twitterati I am going… Continue reading Why I’m A Mass-market Sellout Whore