Thinking Inside the Box

Startropics was a delightful little game released way, way back in the days of the NES. It has a special place in my heart as one of the fi...

Proof that Enix WAS, in fact, capable of creating a good RPG prior to the merger with Squaresoft, despite all the contrary evidence provided...

Thanks to my sister GHTLovesTHG for this rant idea. Here's a question. Why is it that, in an RPG (and almost every other entertainmen...

When I did my Fallout 3 DLC rant , I thought at the time that the next game I would be giving a similar review of would be Dragon Age Origin...

A common trait of Western-style RPGs is the ability to choose what kind of person your protagonist is through their actions. In games like ...

For someone who criticizes SquareEnix's poster child series as much as I do, I sure do wind up defending its characters strangely often....

Well, I've played the game a few times over, seen everything there is to see, examined the merits and flaws of each of the characters pr...

Thanks muchly to Ecclesiastes for correcting me on the matter of Juhani. It's less prominent nowadays than it was a few years back, but ...

So, for reasons I can't quite understand, I have not completely given up on the Suikoden series, even after the bland pretense that Suik...

Basic Fact of Life: If it's a Final Fantasy and it has Full Motion Video, there are dozens, even hundreds, of AMVs featuring it. If it ...