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
The Many Deaths Of You: Video Games As A Demonstration Of Quantum Immortality
I feel the need to preface this with the fact that as I’m writing this, it’s quite late at night and I’ve been playing video games for the better part of the day. God Of War, to be precise. Because
Narrative Theory, Metroid Prime 3, And You
Or, A Theoretical Defense Of The Black Sheep. Yeah. I know I’m talking about a 2007 game, and games sort of age in dog years, where even last month’s DLC is considered “old news”. But I believe that once a
Video game movies: Hollywouldn’t
Now, I’m not talking about movies based on pre-existing video games. I’d probably give at least a few old-school gamers a spontaneous aneurysm if I started discussing the Mario Brothers movie, although personally, I did think the Silent Hill film
It’s All Art To Me
This came out…long. But I think it’s important to get this out there, because it touches on some of the chief fundamental points I need to make to the reader if this blog is going to really make an impact
Bioshock And The ‘Talking Text’
All narratives have a dual nature. While nothing exists in a vacuum, the work in question should be taken to have its own inherence, a dignity all its own and measured on the merits of how well it succeeds in