My newest (with more to come...) for @rpgsite.net: I covered Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles on Nintendo Switch 2, Steam Deck, Nintendo Switch, and ROG Ally going over each version, Steam Deck recommended settings, and more: www.rpgsite.net/feature/1848...

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My relationship to violence in games is so weird. I'll beat a Freak-Ass Thing to a bloody pulp in Silent Hill f and be fine, but then I see the Wolverine trailer and am like ehhh that's a bit much huh

"Bound to an unfinished draft" just like me fr fr

Marketing copywriters stop using "beloved" challenge (status: failed)

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024, coming to Sony's PS5 in 2025

I'm enjoying Hades 2 a lot but I miss the intimate little family dramas of the original. Just doesn't hit quite the same (or better)

Reviewed Baby Steps for The Verge - a game I believe I'm really equipped to write about because hiking in real life is HELL for me www.theverge.com/games/783549...

I would also like a major new Ace Attorney please

The Ivalice Chronicles adds smart refinements to an all time classic, honing it to a sheen. But it’s impossible to play this game and not see it reflected in the state of modern America. I wrote about that, and the idea of resistance for Rolling Stone www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

Although I *love* this game, I had the fortune of tagging in the FFT master @solfleet.bsky.social to review #FinalFantasyTactics for @rollingstone.com — looking at how prescient the politics of the 1997 game were through the lens of our current hellscape. www.rollingstone.com/culture/rs-g...

That Silent Hill f game sure is (exceptionally) good huh. Assuming there aren't any bizarre late-game misses, it's gonna be hard for anything else this year to beat this one for me

Hey, this is really cool! Includes an interview with Alexander O. Smith and Steve Anderson, with new insights on the localization process.

When I’m feeling bad about myself I try to remember someone out there would kill to have my face. Its name is The Face Slicer Offer and it is waiting for me to fall asleep

Larian said happy bi/bi+ visibility day

Worried I did not beat this drum enough www.polygon.com/gaming/47511...

Hinako Silent Hill 🤝rapture-believing fundamentalists

Cassius Bright be like, "Why isn't my daughter more ladylike? Oh well, I hope she likes this feral orphan I got her on my last business trip."

26,000 YouTube views for Sinclair’s Charlie Kirk tribute special. Just for comparison, Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on any average Wednesday will get between two and four MILLION YouTube views. Right wing culture is fringe stuff. It is not American culture by any stretch.

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

When you definitely didn't steal your brother's favorite bear and want to make sure he doesn't get it back

At the end of Act 2 in Silksong, and I can't say the story's done much for me yet. It's pretty toothless as far as critiques of faith and exploitation go. Character stories (esp. the tragic gay bugs and Sherma) are the best part, but Silksong does so little with them

Truth. With one notable exception

People's boomer dads when they order food from a restaurant with any gender bathrooms.

I am proud to say that I got to review Dying Light: The Beast for @gameinformer.com! I am still pinching myself about it. It’s been a dream to write for them and I couldn’t be happier with how it came out. Thank you to @brianpshea.bsky.social and the team for making this happen. Enjoy!

First result was my second big feature, a chronology of the Trails series from the fan perspective and why it was so enduring despite being niche. Thought it was gone forever after Input was axed, but some dear soul archived it. Bless you anonymous friend web.archive.org/web/20210612...

hi, hello, here's a story. nintendo of america is ending hundreds of customer support contracts in the U.S., and is outsourcing those jobs to south america ahead of switch 2's first holiday season: www.ign.com/articles/nin...

I was pumped for the Trails remake, but it's simply stunning in execution. A gorgeous adventure that's all blue skies and green grass, it's like Dreamcast RPGs kept coming.

Oh there's *lore* behind these guys

Bruh

The Second Sentinel fight in Silksong

Me: Yeah Silksong's tools are neat, but not like, essential or anything Also me, in the last part of the Forum fight:

I don't know if Trails in the Sky: First Chapter will fix me, but I'm gonna give it a damn good try

Re. RPS freelance, I now have a budget for irregular (maybe 6-12 pieces a year) 2000-3000 wordish, more granular and specific reporting and investigative criticism that broaches a new topic or addresses a gap in knowledge regarding something familiar.

When you wake up and realize it's only Wednesday but you're trying your best anyway

I see you and your Exhaust Organ, Team Cherry

No gods exist in the universe. Only pain lives here (there's 2,000 rosary beads in that thing)

Final bit of the cogwork dancers...

My pet theory is that Act 2 was Silksong when Silksong was meant to be an expansion. Everything is just soooo much better than Act 1 - environment design, secrets, enemies, platforming. Hell, even the rewards and arena battles are better

All the cool kids love Trobbio

If you are a writer in this space and ever want to reach out for information, feedback, or my personal professional advice on a "game journalism" related thing my DMs and inbox are always open! I can't guarantee I will always have the time or a good answer but I can promise I don't bite.

Polygon has partneed with Starlight Children's Foundation to make sure that kids in hospitals can play games, just like any other kid.

Okay I'm starting to get used to it and actually kinda like it now

The love bugs get a pass, though. They're neat

New Donkey Kong Bananza DLC took a twist

Okay, a lot of Silksong's surprises are just nasty but I'm a big fan of how, for being curious first-thing in the Citadel, your reward is being sent to hell

I couldn't help myself, don't take it seriously

Take that, ya shit

my silksong review is up!!! thank you again to VGC for the opportunity 💜

Was thinking about all of the announced Switch 2 year-one games so far and it’s kind of fascinating how few are follow ups to any of the Switch’s top selling games. I know that stuff is coming but it’s neat to have so many swerves unconcerned with selling systems. www.polygon.com/nintendo-swi...