No secret is made of the fact that The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins’ bestselling YA trilogy adapted into the blockbuster film quadrilogy, is an attempt to fuse (if I can be so bold as to make super-specific comparisons) the gladiatorial
Dark Souls II and Time Travel
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks playing through Dark Souls II: Scholar Of The First Sin on PS4. From Software’s Souls canon – Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls 1 and 2, and Bloodborne – feels like the true natural successor
Sliding Off The Fringe: Why Stories That Use Sliding Timescales Are In Trouble
I’m here to talk to you about fictional universes that use a ‘sliding timescale’. For those of you who just pictured a clock being placed on a diagonal bathroom scale, how do I even begin to explain a concept as
Until Dawn review: Choose Your Own Nightmare
Just how many layers of cultural nostalgia are we peeling back with this one? Fans of slasher movies will be overjoyed to find that Until Dawn takes part-and-parcel from the trope pool of Freddy, Michael, Jason, Evil Dead, et al.
Mandatory Evolution: Progression of the Player’s Guide
So there I stood in Chapters, facing the bookshelf as one would stare down a rival gunslinger at the crack of dawn. Tried, I did, to conjure a justification for potentially spending over thirty dollars on a player’s guide for
Metroid Fusion: The Progress Perplexion
Second in a maybe-series of Metroid analyses, today I’d like to talk about one of the most unusual titles in the series, Metroid Fusion. The Space Pirates have been wiped out and their leader annihilated. The last metroid is dead,
Metroid and the M-Other of Controversy
It should come as no surprise by now that I really, really like Metroid. I’ve talked about Super Metroid’s power as a feminist narrative as well as Corruption’s strength as a natural conclusion to the Phazon arc, but there’s just
Cold Fusion: the turning tide of game journalism
I was leafing through some of my gaming memorabilia the other day, when I came across something peculiar: a VHS tape adorned by Sonic the Hedgehog’s smarmy visage from the Sonic Adventure era, with the word FUSE slapped across the
Less Than A Feeling
What kind of article would I start with, now that I’m jumping back through the Looking Glass for the first time since February? Why, the kind that requires chapters on a blog entry, of course! I: All There In The
Echoes In An Empty Room: Dead Space 3 As a Linguistic Demonstration
STOP. If you have yet to finish Dead Space 3, and don’t want to be spoiled, just go head on over yonder. What I’m talking about today is going to strip it all bare. And because Dead Space is such