I have been looking for some games to play recently, and one title I had shortlisted was Final Fantasy VII: Remake (2020), which had been long-awaited by fans of the original PlayStation RPG Final Fantasy VII (1997). That title was probably the first triple-A video game and left quite a mark on the history of… Continue reading Tifa’s Tits and The Cynicism of Final Fantasy VII: Remake
A while ago I got my hands on an old laptop with a defect that was too costly to repair, exceeding the value of the machine. Thus, I got it for free, and with some workarounds, I got it to work. This is a five year old machine with a discrete AMD GPU. At first,… Continue reading Gaming with the Power of a Potato PC
I was a big fan of the original Devil May Cry (2001), which was one of the stand-out titles on the PlayStation 2. It was not quite as ground-breaking as Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube a few years later, but it was still a very impressive game, with over-the-top action, stellar art design, very… Continue reading Devil May Cry 5 (2019)
I recently watched the reveal trailer of Doom Eternal. It’s not the kind of game I would like to play, but as I have a passing interest in the state of the art of consumer-grade computer graphics, I keep an eye on important events such as QuakeCon or SIGGRAPH. I’m linking the trailer below. It’s… Continue reading Doom Eternal is the First Mainstream Product to Openly Mock the Left
The video game Tetris probably needs no introduction. Most of you have probably played or at the very least seen it. I played (classic) Tetris extensively on the Nintendo Gameboy when I was a kid. In that version, the multiplayer mode is an afterthought. It is primarily a single player game. The Tetris pieces are… Continue reading Why Modern Tetris is a Flawed Game
