Game Club: Richard and Alice, Part 2
Author’s Note: This is the fourth letter in a four-letter series discussing Richard & Alice. You can find Part One here, Part Two here, and Part Three here. Spoilers within! Hey Joanna, [...]
Game Club: Richard & Alice
Author's Note: This is the second letter in a four-letter series discussing Richard & Alice. You can find Part One here, Part Three here, and Part Four here. All posts contains [...]
The End of Mass Effect
This is the fourth and final part of Critical Mass Effect, a close look at the Mass Effect series. Previous entries are: Part 0: Mass Effect's Astoundingly Inept Sidequests Part 1: What [...]
The Evolution of Mass Effect
[SPOILER WARNING: As with all entries in the Critical Mass Effect series, this contains various degrees of spoilers, in this case for Mass Effect 2] The unimaginatively titled Mass Effect 2 may [...]
What Mass Effect Got Right
In the last entry, I highlighted the most egregious problems of Mass Effect. But the fact remains that I've played it to completion twice, when I don't manage to complete most of the [...]
What Mass Effect Gets Wrong
Welcome to the first real entry in Critical Mass Effect, a compendium of articles that will poke and prod at all the design decisions that make up the Mass Effect trilogy.This will not [...]
Mass Effect’s Astoundingly Inept Sidequests
Author’s Note: This is the first entry in Critical Mass Effect, a compendium of articles on Bioware’s ambitious, troubled space opera trilogy. The next two entries will focus on everything wrong and [...]
Thoughts On Prometheus (2012)
It is not often that a film evokes such a response from me that I write a late-night blog entry immediately after seeing it. For whatever faults it may have (and it has its [...]
Notes on a Nameless Island
I am going to tell you a story about an island. This island will soon cease to exist, and this will be no great loss, because no life resides on it. [...]
Something About The ’90s: A First-Time Viewing of ‘Clerks’
When it comes to pop culture, there seems to be a consistent nostalgia for whatever was happening 20 years prior. In high school my peers seemed convinced [...]