Ni no Kuni II : Revenant Kingdom is a game that tries to be better than its predecessor, using every trick and gimmick to its disposal but ultimately failing to recapture the Ghibli infused magic of the original. The return to the world of Ni no Kuni was highly anticipated, as trailers showed off a revamped combat…
Lets talk about Fallout 76, the game that looks like a Fallout game and which Bethesda keeps saying is a Fallout game... except when they point out just how much it’s not really a Fallout game.
Sea of Thieves recently updated with The Hungering Deep, a questline that required players to team up to fight a giant shark boss to get cool new swag. I wrote that the mandatory cooperation had made the game much more friendly and peaceful. Well...it didn’t last long. A good number of players have back to blasting…
I’ve played a lot of games in my time. Many of them I’ve thoroughly enjoyed, making me giddy with joy, and eliciting gasps of both wonder and amazement at their masterful integration of cutting edge technology,technical skill and visionary storytelling. But out of all of those games, only one can I say I truly loved.
First, I see FC as an open world sandbox for having fun and not some game with a deep sprawling story, I have my fair share of JRPG’s for that. I see the story campaign, characters as a premise/setting to give context to the actions we do in the game, that’s all.
I spent a while trying to figure out how to write about #MeToo, #TimesUp and how it correlates to the gaming community. There isn’t a delicate way to talk about it so I’m going to try my best with the hope of having a good discussion come from it. The #MeToo and #TimesUp movements are making its rounds in a lot of…
Have you played any of the Monster Hunter (MH) games? Unfortunately, I am a complete newbie to the Monster Hunter series, with MH World being my first game. I played the limited time beta on PS4, and the game seemed as a different one for me than anything I have played but at the same time, I couldn’t decide if I like…
I was reflecting on the games I played for 2017 and before I stalled out at the end, I managed to get through a lot! Most of the games I played I didn’t finish but since they are JRPGs and I played about 50+ hours in all of them, its almost like I finished right? Here are some that left an impression on me.
Recently I haven’t been gaming as much which is why I haven’t posted on TAY. However, despite my lack of gaming participation, my gaming habits have stayed on my mind. The thing that has kept nagging at me lately is the realization that multiplayer games may not be for me.
For much of my youth, and the youth of many of my peers, internet cafes were to us what the Parisian cafes were to the writers and artists of the early 20th century. Not that we were thinkers and visionaries, poets and activists, debating, discussing, formulating world changing ideas. No, we were like them in the…
It’s been a great year for gaming. In the past few months, great games were released one after another with games like Horizon Zero Dawn, Nier: Automata, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (or Biohazard 7: Resident Evil in Japan) garnering both critical and commercial success – and…
I’m an 80s child who was too young then to remember it.
Consider, at conventions—game, anime, or otherwise—the prevalence of the Nintendo 3DS, followed in a distant second place by the Playstation Vita. For the Nintendo Switch appears to be, in numerous ways, the descendant of both systems.
Grandgia: Super-Continent of Possibility! After millennia of countless wars, crumbling empires, and colossal catastrophes, the land of Grandgia has now entered an era of relative peace. Now -more than ever- is the perfect time for adventurers to set out and find the secrets and treasures that were lost to years of…
2016 is over and in the ashes comes a new year with new games and new goals to strive for. I know it’s cliche to do a New Year’s resolution, but I haven’t done one in years. Instead of doing a all-around normal resolution, I thought of composing one highly focused on gaming.
We have Thanksgiving that we spend with family, and some people celebrate a friends-giving with their closest friends. How about now we have TAYsgiving? Get together with all of your TAY brothers and sisters.
When the lights are dim and the trees near bare, When the gamer looks for a Halloween scare, Oft goes a game lesser known Than those that are more often shown. Hear the tale of a game with horror and action Based on a film based on a Disney attraction.
Whenever I sit down to play a competitive or challenging video game, something changes. I am not the person I usually am. I’ve shouted and cursed at the screen. I’ve thrown controllers across the room. I’ve paced around. That calm, thoughtful, laid-back demeanor everyone knows me by? It can quickly melt into pure…
I talk about Final Fantasy XV a lot. I am so ready for the game, like bursting at the seams. I haven’t felt this way, a mix of giddy glee and nervous anticipation, about a Final Fantasy since VII. It’s not hype, I won’t be boarding another train anytime soon, it’s something more. Square Enix is creating a universe…
Around the time I first got to TAY, I was fortunate enough to stumble across a great article written by Nyren about what video games meant to the gamer. Nyren discussed, and I’m paraphrasing, how morality and politics were diluting the game space because they were trying to force an agenda on developers that conflict…
