How to play Ninja as of Patch 5.58 Heard some of y’all non-believers wanna learn Final Fantasy XIV’s patented Ninja Way™? Well, guess what, your resident ex-anime enjoyer and Dark Knight is here to teach you a little thing about the class that invented the carpal tunnel jutsu. The class…

Through it all, I remember the early 2000s. I was but a wee lad of 6–10 at the time. I was a pretty anti-social kid; not by choice of course, I just had a crippling shyness problem that lasted until my 20s. All that alone time let me focus on…

WARNING: Spoilers for Shadowbringer’s base expansion story ahead. I’ve been the perennial Final Fantasy XIV hater for what feels like forever now. I found myself constantly ranting about the slow GCD, A Realm Reborn’s awful pacing, and how being forced to Naruto run as a Ninja destroyed my headcanon for…

Fun fact: Yakuza: Like a Dragon’s new turn based combat system started out as an April Fool’s prank. Gameplay of Ichiban with his cavalcade of pals taking turns beating the shit out of goons surfaced seemingly out of nowhere on April 1st, 2019. The global reactions to the mysterious genre…

How the U.S. Army’s influence turns a game into propaganda It’s been twelve years since Konami backed out of publishing Six Days in Fallujah due to controversy surrounding the title. A game pitched as “A video game about the real experiences of Marines, Soldiers, and Iraqi civilians who fought Al…

An interesting story ruined by the hubris of a slow jog Coming into The Medium, I found it very hard not to make Silent Hill 2 comparisons. On a conceptual level, they are very similar: a person is summoned to an abandoned town filled with ghouls and ghosts by a…

The tale of mystery, love , and porno mag obsession Visual novels never used to be my thing. My views on digital books that you pressed buttons in sometimes were warped by the rumors spread by others. I heard countless stories on how all visual novels were “smut” or “poorly…

Imagine: you’re Leon S. Kennedy, a fresh-faced police cadet that has just arrived to his co-worker’s welcoming party gone Romero. As you begin to explore the confines of your strangely complicated workplace, you slowly begin to unravel many mysteries of both your new city of residence and what exactly has…