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  • Child of Light. A 2D, Side-Scrolling, Turn-Based RPG? Yes, Please!

    Child of Light. A 2D, Side-Scrolling, Turn-Based RPG? Yes, Please!

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    The credits are rolling on Child of Light, a unique mix of 2D side-scroller and turn-based RPG. You don’t see those too mix very often. I don’t know why. Maybe video games are racist.

    But more likely, you don’t see side-scrolling, turn based RPGs because the side-scrolling nature restricts the player’s directional choices. What fun is an RPG if you are forced to battle every single enemy? No fun, that’s what fun. Child of Light handles this by giving the player character, a princess named Aurora, the ability to fly. So, essentially, Child of Light is a top-down game in that you can move in any direction and choose which enemies to engage. That’s either very clever or its cheating. (more…)

  • My Top 100 Video Games of All Time (56 – 60)

    My Top 100 Video Games of All Time (56 – 60)

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    I hit a video game milestone recently: I have beaten 100 games! I thought it would be fun to rank all 100 of the games in a series of videos. Here’s the next video, ranking games 65 – 60. (more…)

  • DIY Game Room Tour to Make You Jealous of My Video Games

    DIY Game Room Tour to Make You Jealous of My Video Games

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    Have you ever wanted a video game room of your very own? Or, do you currently have a game room, but you are looking to make it better? How about instead of answering those questions, you watch this DIY video game room tour of my game room and tell me how cool my stuff is in the comments below.

    If you see something in the video that you want a longer, dedicated video about, let me know. (more…)

  • My Top 100 Video Games of All Time (61 – 65)

    My Top 100 Video Games of All Time (61 – 65)

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    I hit a video game milestone recently: I have beaten 100 games! I thought it would be fun to rank all 100 of the games in a series of videos. Here’s the next video, ranking games 61 – 65. (more…)

  • DIY Game Controller Wall Mount and Charging Station

    DIY Game Controller Wall Mount and Charging Station

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    So, you collect video game controllers and don’t have a good way to display them? Are you also wanting to keep an unreasonable number of controllers fully charged at all times? Are you handy with a drill. Then this video is for you. Here I show you how to DIY a game room controller mount and controller charger. (more…)

  • DIY Cigar Box Shadowbox Game Room Shelves

    DIY Cigar Box Shadowbox Game Room Shelves

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    Your game room is probably pretty cool. But you can do better with your trinket display situation, right? Here I show you how to DIY some game room shelves using cigar boxes. The shadowbox nature of the game room shelves means you can put these things in all the nooks and crannies of your game room. Plus, because these are homemade DIY shelves using super inexpensive (often free) cigar boxes, you’ve not nothing to lose. (more…)

  • Trover Saves the Universe Review. Is it Funny?

    Trover Saves the Universe Review. Is it Funny?

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    The credits have rolled on Trover Saves the Universe. Well, actually they haven’t. Not yet. But they will. I’m still playing it. And I do intend to finish it. I just feel confident that the endgame won’t surprise or delight me enough to make this early review an invalid review. Incomplete, perhaps. But not unfair.

    See, Trover saves the Universe is primarily a showcase for Justin Roiland’s brand of noncommittal riffing. Imagine you were to accuse a drunk neighbor of pooping on your carpet, and that drunk neighbor insists he did no such thing, delivering his appeal with all the incoherence and verbal hurdling over swallowed-down almost-vomit that a drunk neighbor would of course exhibit, and proudly so. That’s essentially every one of Roiland’s characters.

    Basically, you get the sense that Roiland’s voice recording sessions are just him, probably high, vocalizing every single thing that comes to his mind. Sure, he’ll pause to gather his thoughts or jump into an alternate take, but where less confident writers may insist the pauses and jumps be edited out, Roiland seems to insist the opposite. It comes across as brash laziness.

    And I freaking love it. (more…)