Rundown (6/14/2026) S3 2026: STOP! You’re Making A Mess!
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Stop! You’re Making a Mess!
- Microsoft’s S3 2026 Festivities (No Games For Genocide, Bitch!)
- The Miscellaneous Microsoft Trough (Go Away, Xbox!)
- Gears of War: E-Day’s First Major Showing (The Return to Form Apology)
- Persona 4 Revival Was Properly Revealed (And I’m FINE With It)
- Crazy Taxi: World Tour Announced (Verified AI Slop Revival)
- Vivarium Re-Announced (A Hand-Drawn Boku no Natsuyasumi Like!)
- Persona 6 Announced (With A Nothing Trailer!)
- Spyro 4 is REAL! (It’s Been 18 Years…)
- Thief: The Dark Project Remastered Announced (The Next Nightdive Joint)
- The Nintendo Direct Section (Nat-Nat Will Never Sleep!)
- Nintendo Direct 2026-06-09: Minor Things of Note (Many Minors!)
- The Ocarina of Time Remake Announced (I’m Indifferent Until I Learn Literally Anything About It)
- Muramasa Revenant Blades Announced (After 11 Years of Waiting, Vanillaware Finally Brought A Game to PC!)
- Xenoblade Games Get Nintendo Switch 2 Editions (Xenoblade 1, 2, and 3 As God Intended)
- Xenoblade Genesis Announced (Neat, But What’s Going On?)
- Nintendo Switch Sports Resort Announced (This Should Have Been Nintendo Switch Sports 1)
- Final Fantasy Resonance Announced (From The Ashes of Final Fantasy Brave Exvius)
- Touhou Koumakyou: New Classic – the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Announced (Natalie FINALLY Talks About Touhou)
- Video Games This September Are Bonkers, Yo! (Wake Me Up When Septembergeddon Ends)
- Ubisoft Celebrates S3 2026 With LAYOFFS! (380 People Can No Longer Support Their Families!)
Rundown (9/14/2025) Find Yourself Within Silence
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Find Yourself Within Silence
- YouTube is Destroying The Livelihood of Its Creators (Thanks to Restricted Mode)
- How Many People Does It Take to Make a Game (And Who TF Counts as a Game Dev?)
- Panzer Dragoon Zwei: Remake Unveiled (Forever Entertainment Biffed It Again!)
- Natalie Fell Down A Retro Game Influencer Hole Again (One More Mini Indulgence…)
- The Biggest Nintendo Direct EVAH! (Mr. Mario Just Turned 40~!)
- Super Mario Galaxy is Back Bay-Bee! (Back to SPACE!!!)
- Mario Tennis Fever Announced (Everybody Clap! NOW!!!)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder Is Getting Paid DLC for Switch 2! (Because Super Luigi Bros. Wonder Would be Too Cute!)
- Yoshi and the Mysterious Book Announced (What the Hell is the Yoshi Series?)
- Virtual Boy Games Are Back! (If You Pay Nintendo $100 for Some Plastic)
- Dragon Quest VII: Reimagined Announced (The Best/Worst Dragon Quest, But With 3D Scanned Doll and Dioramas)
- Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake Announced (Another Remake of a Remake!)
- Donkey Kong Bananza Paid DLC Announced (A Bastardized Childhood and Roguelike Mode for a Brisk $20!)
- Pokémon Legends: Z-A Is Getting Paid DLC! (And Stupid Natalie is Gonna Buy It!)
- Pokémon Pokopia Announced! (Pokémon X Dragon Quest Builders, I Guess?)
- Danganronpa 2×2 Announced (What a Needless Re-Whatever…)
- Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Announced (Here’s To Another Decade of Anime Genocide Discourse!)
- Mega Man Star Force Legacy Collection Announced (How Is That Even Going to Work?)
Rundown (1/29/2023) Dragalia Lives
This Week’s Topics:
- Rundown Preamble Ramble: Dragalia Lost Private Server is LIVE!
- Natalie FINALLY Partakes in The Wizard Game Discourse (The Futility of Fighting The Powerful With Consumer Action)
- The Call to Ban Pedo Comics! (Natalie Rambles About the Sexualization of Minors – Extension 2023-01)
- Roiland Schmoiland, Who Needs ‘Em? (Justin Roiland Is Being Removed From Various Projects)
- Proletariat CEO Felt BETRAYED When Workers Tried Unionizing (Proletariat Unionization Has Been Withdrawn)
- One Look Rush; Two Word Crush (Tango Gameworks Announces and Releases Hi-Fi Rush)
Rundown (9/11-9/17) Formatting Frustrations 2: Perpetual Aggression
Wherein I discuss: My illiteracy. Nina Tendo’s Maple-some Autumnal Treat. Soh Nii’s Amber-some Autumnal Treat. The re;birth of Yakuza. Oodles of TGS-time video game announcements! And the (hopeful) demise of PSVR2.
(more…)Rundown (6/13-6/18) Segmented Summer Showcases (S3) 2022: Oops! I Wrote a 30,000 Word Novella Again!
Wherein I discuss the progress of OPPAI 3, the Persona port puzzlement, Capcom’s subpar S3 showings, the continued Re;Birth of Final Fantasy VII, two HOT SPRG leaks, a possible niche revival, and a decompiled classic.
(more…)Rundown (2/06-2/12) Bluetooth Frustrations
Wherein I discuss Platinum’s painful pivot, another acquisition, a definitive failure’s grand success, and the oodles of delights from Nina Tendo’s happy time press release showcase!
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Rundown (10/18-10/24) Spoopy Scares!
Wherein I discuss my disinterest in horror, a time-limited localization, and my favorite mobage.
(more…)Fire Emblem Heroes (2018) Review
One year and several hundred hours later…
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Fire Emblem Heroes (2017) Review
As Nintendo’s second effort to branch out into mobile game using one of their established IPs, Fire Emblem seems like an incredibly odd choice. While the series saw a rise in popularity after the release of Awakening in early 2013, it is still a very niche franchise for the company, and does not initially seem like the best fit for the platform, as the games are story driven strategy RPGs. In actuality, Fire Emblem Heroes proves to be a surprisingly good fit for the platform, a pretty solid strategy game, and also one of the most engrossing yet frustrating experiences I willingly put myself through in quite a while. (more…)
Rundown (1/15-1/21) Super Mario World Adventure DX Director’s Cut 2 Battle & Knuckles
I did not notice this after the Nintendo Switch event last week, mostly because I try to curate my media feeds as best I can, but apparently everybody who watched the trailer for Super Mario Odyssey compared the game to Sonic The Hedgehog (2006) because it has a cartoonish character wandering around a realistic city with realistic people. Even though the far simpler and, well, better comparison to make here is between Sonic Adventure. The general aesthetic is basically identical, as both games feature sections where a strange creature jumps and runs around a metropolitan environment filled with street lights, skyscrapers, and cars that move down the street. Oh, and yes you ever insightful children, if Mario was real, he would be dissected and branded a mutant. You’re as clever as a whoopie cushion and somehow more irritating. (more…)
Rundown (4/24-4/30) I’m A Busy Little T-Girl
Apologies for not getting a Hyperdevotion Noire review up. Work, school, and family stuff all cut into the time I could put into that game. Review should be up tomorrow evening. Also, on May 31st I will (hopefully) release a novella I’m currently working on called Maple Loves Senpai. It’s a story about a Japanese schoolgirl who gets absorption powers and is guided by the voice of her lover to consume people in order to transform herself into his ultimate waifu. Many stereotypes and dark themes ensue. (more…)
Rundown (7/13-7/19) I Am Truly The Nicest One There Is!
For the past… I don’t even know how long, there’s been a lot of talk about bringing in a wave of diverse characters and trying to lessen the use of characters fitting a mold of being straight white males with short black hair, athletic builds, and possibly some beard scruff, as that is quite frankly an incredibly dull mold when you consider how those sliders can be manipulated. Hell, when I started writing, well, writing something that I actually completed, I specifically went out of my way to avoid that mold, when I was dealing with the medium of writing, which is where the character’s visual appearance does not matter all that much as it is not a visual medium. Yet I still went out of my way to make sure I had balanced ethnicity well, even if I boiled it down to four variants, White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian, made them either pansexual or asexual, and make sure the character at the very least obtains a female form if they do not begin with it… The Transformation, Ascension, and Degeneration of Terra is coming to this blog 11/18/2014 or sooner! I’ve got about three more chapters and two months of editing left to do, so I’d say early October. Probably. (more…)