Tag Archives: Role Playing

A new challenger approaches! There’s nothing better than adding a new face to your ranks. Whether you’ve recruited a new knight or unlocked some special character mode, it’s a great feeling knowing there’s more to a game than the starting roster. Nothing spices up a skating game like a Sith …

That’s a real jerk move Pokemon is all about the friendship and trust that can form between a young adult and a wild animal wielding magical powers. It’s the cornerstone of the franchise: that Pokemon aren’t just weapons or tools, but allies and friends. ‘You teach me and I’ll teach …

Wait dreaming no longer! Hallowe’en is a special time of year. So special, in fact, that we couldn’t let our celebratory Halloweek go by without making a very special effort to do a very special thing indeed. To that end, we’ve resurrected the ghost of H.P. Lovecraft, master of fevered …

The cheat is grounded Since time immemorial, video games have included cheat codes. A tiny handful of letters, numbers, and symbols let players experience their favorite games in ways that the developer may not have intended. Infinite lives. All the weapons. Oh, look, a tank just appeared! It’s a great …

Try to leave Frozen Eleum Loyce for the cathedral, and you’ll be attacked by an invisible boss. But once you’ve obtained the Eye of the Priestess, you can take on this massive jungle cat: Avaa, the King’s Pet. Avaa isn’t too difficult to defeat, but she (I assume she) is …

Thrak Pot-Licker. That stupid, ugly, idiotic idiot orc must die. Why? Because he’s killed me three times in a row–and I’m a sore loser. Thing is, Thrak’s not some pre-made bad guy in Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor (opens in new tab). You’ll never encounter him when you play the …

Mugen Souls Z is an uncomfortable foray into the candy-colored world of Lolita complexes. A follow-up to the 2012 JRPG Mugen Souls, Souls Z picks up right where its predecessor left off in almost every way, right down to troubling fixations. Unfortunately, Souls Z also takes on the first game’s …

Something’s very wrong here For as charming as the Pokmon universe might be, there’s no denying that some things simply don’t add up. There are weird inconsistencies, strange occurrences, and plot holes that haven’t been addressed. Hell, if anything, even more have surfaced: Pokmon X and Y randomly added the …

A version of this article originally posted February 21, 2013. Part man. Part machine. All ninja Once upon a time, the term cyborg called to mind man-machine combinations like Robocop. Those augmented humans boasted the firepower of tanks, but had the limited mobility to match. Flash forward to today, where …

The console versions of South Park: The Stick of Truth (opens in new tab) have been censored in Europe. That confuses me. You see I live in Europe. I know the kind of things we get up to. I know the kind of things in media that we get squeamish …