Reviews Thrasher: Skate & Destroy (1999) Thrasher: Skate & Destroy came out just a bit after Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and I was in full blown Skateboarding fandom. I couldn’t get enough of skating and even though I was horrible at it in real life, I was able to fulfill my fantasies in video game
Reviews Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX (2000) Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX came out a year after Tony Hawk, while I was right in the prime of my high school years. I remember playing the demo that took place in the woodward training camp, and just falling in love with it. Even for how much it was taking
Podcast Episode 20 - Awaken To The Crash Of The Dragon Welcome to the New Year! I break down the first couple of weeks of games I've been playing, but first I need to explain why the Star Wars Prequels suck, after watching the entire series back to back to back to back...
Reviews Crash Bandicoot - N.Sane Trilogy (2017) Crash Bandicoot 1 Crash has always been a staple of the Playstation brand since the early days. With one of my earliest Playstation memories, the demo disc with PaRappa and Crash sitting in the kiosk at Warehouse. When the game was remade for the PS4 in 2017, I was excited
Reviews Spyro The Dragon 2 - Ripto's Rage: The Reignighted Trilogy (2019) Spyro 2, takes everything that the original game did, and added to it. One of the only small gripes I have with the sequel, is that gone are the variety of Dragons from the original game. Instead, those dragons are replaced with a few new “friends” who are a bit
Reviews Spyro The Dragon: Reignited Trilogy (2019) The original Spyro game was always a game that I remember fondly while never actually playing the full game. I remember the commercials, I remember playing the demo and loving it, but I never actually rented or owned the full game itself. I played the demo for the game on
Podcast Episode 19 - Game Of The Year 2019 It’s Christmas!!! So I’m going to countdown my favorite games that came out this year, along with honorable mentions of games that I sunk a good chunk of time into.
Podcast Episode 18 - The Chill Before Winter's Reach It's that time of year again! IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME!!!! Things are a bit busy, so I haven't been able to play as many games lately, but what I have been playing has been a joy. I'll talk about The Outer Worlds, Halo Reach and what I hope to get to
Reviews The Outer Worlds (2019) Take the Fallout formula that Bethesda has used for the last decade or so, and transplant it into Outer Space. Trade in the huge post apocalyptic open world wasteland for something a bit smaller and the ability to have different planets to explore all the while, mixing in a bit
Reviews WarioWare (2003) I honestly didn’t really play a lot of GameBoy Advance games, I felt it was basically a smaller Super Nintendo and this was back in 2001 when I was already well into High School. I didn’t even really get into the system in a big way until the
Reviews Need For Speed: Heat (2019) The Need For Speed series has always been a staple in gaming for such a long time, It’s kinda incredible that it’s been around since 1994 with almost yearly releases. Need For Speed: Heat is the newest one and also comes at a time where the modern EA
Podcast Episode 17 - Falling Into The Heat As 2019 comes to a close, I find myself only playing several games, but luckily a new controller makes it an enjoyable experience.
Reviews Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (2019) It’s easy to be cynical for me, when it comes to Star Wars. Something special as a kid, that has been bastardized first by Gorge Lucas and his meddling ways, ever changing a movie instead of just letting it be. Then secondly by Disney and the over-saturation of the
Reviews Death Stranding (2019) Can someone review something that they never actually experienced? Reviewing a video game is a totally different thing than reviewing a movie or any other piece of media because of its interactive nature. It requires input from the player that can usually change the outcome of the game in some
Reviews Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Wildlands (2017) Ghost Recon has been so many different types of games, it was hard trying to wrap my mind around the concept of the game for a while. Was it a shooter? Was is a third person cover shooter? Was it a collect-a-thon? Was it a mainly online game? Because the
Podcast Episode 16 - It's A Scary Western, Charlie Brown! Knott's Scary Farm, a Nicholas Cage acid trip movie, HBO's Deadwood, and Red Dead Online are the main talking points while I start preparing for the crisp fall weather.
Reviews The Legend Of Zelda (1984) One of the biggest blind spots of my gaming life is that I never finished the first Zelda game on the NES. I remember renting it when I was a kid, but I never got more than a few screens deep. When I was a bit older I tried it
Reviews Borderlands 3 (2019) It’s been way too long for Borderlands 3 to actually come out. Even though I really enjoyed my time with it, the amount of time away from this series really did more harm than good. Borderlands inspired the loot shooter genre that has become such a staple of the
Reviews The Legend Of Zelda: Majora’s Mask (2000) As the first true sequel in the Zelda franchise, Majora’s Mask takes the (at the time) still fresh formula and turns it into its own separate game that only resembles the series in look. I tried for years to get into this game, and every time I’d get
Podcast Episode 15 - See You Space Cowboy... This is a tough episode. I get a bit emotional at the beginning and end talking about my favorite Psychonaut Puppy, Raz. He was a rad dog and I loved him. I talk a bit about some games that I have been playing, like Control and Westworld VR and Gears
Reviews Ape Out (2019) One of the only words to describe Ape Out is… Wow. This game visually stuns right out of the game. From the word Start, this game is one of those rare smaller games that just has such a unique style and overall presentation that it will stick in your head
Reviews Gears 5 (2019) Gears of War has been one of those series that I’ve always had a good time with, yet not really caring deeply about at all. I find myself putting it in the category of Summer Blockbuster more than anything super serious. There are times and places for balls to
Podcast Episode 14 - 9.9.99 20 years ago, I rode my bike, after my first day of high school to pick up what would become my favorite console of all time. So on a very special birthday to me episode I talk about why the Dreamcast is so beloved.
Reviews Control (2019) Very few games can pull off an interesting story, with plot twists and misdirection and surprises, yet Control does this with relative ease. There is nothing simple about this game, except the combat. Yet the combat does feel fun and is enjoyable, but not the main focus for a 3rd
Podcast Episode 13 - Yes Man's Sky 3 years after the release of No Man's Sky, the Beyond update comes with VR support... and I couldn't have had more of a turnaround on this game. Over 30 hours of exploring and base building made this a new favorite.
