Much like last year, it’s time to honor some fan tributes to video games! 🙂 Best Remix – Escape from the City by Lame Genie featuring Josh Herzer Lame Genie has climbed pretty high into my ALL TIME BEST ROCK REMIXERS of VGM, and this is a strong testament as to why. The band captures…
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Opinion: This Nintendo Direct was kinda crazy
So Nintendo’s postponed Direct made it to the air today, and there were some amazing announcements today. Some of them were done early, like Civilization VI and Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition, but overall there were enough awesome to make up for it. So let’s tackle the five best announcements in my book: Capcom Beat-Em-Up…
Opinions – A Dual Life Perspective, 2018 (Pt. 1)
2018 thus far has been an improvement over last year. I feel like I’m finally getting my feet under me after what felt like a colossal upheaval of everything I thought I knew. That’s not to say I haven’t had setbacks or rough patches; those have certainly existed. And I’m still healing from the biggest…
Music – Top VGM STKs #11 – 13 – Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Splatoon 2 and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
With the Top 10 finished, I’m going to do the remaining 15 as sets of three to speed through the rest of this list. It was difficult to exclude Breath of the Wild from the Top 10, so I snuggled it in as close as I could. Manaka Kataoka and Yasuaki Iwata are both relatively…
Opinion: Splatoon is one of Nintendo’s A-Tier Franchises if the Direct is anything to go by
Yep, that’s a thing. That’s also a thing. Today Nintendo committed to the popularity of its youthful franchise Splatoon, and it was glorious. The Direct devoted nearly a third of its run time to the series, with a bevy of free content and the first paid expansion Octo shown off (the latter looks fucking insane…
Music: Five Nintendo Selections from my Top 100 VGM
Today’s top 100 VGM post is all about Nintendo. But to keep it interesting, it’s sort of a grab bag of Nintendo tunes from five different platforms from five different series of games! Super Mario 64 – Dire Dire Docks (N64, Koji Kondo, Nintendo, 1996) This is one of my favorite tunes in all of…
