So when I read the news about the details that Sony released about the upcoming PlayStation 5, I was a bit pleasantly surprised that my expectations of the coming hardware upgrade to that next generation seemed to be surpassed. Little did I know in that moment that something else was making the rounds about Sony…
Month: April 2019
Roadtrip!: Final Fantasy XV! (5ish hours in)
Let me preface this entire piece with an acknowledgment that many people who have come to hate this game do so because of Squares implementation of DLC, and the numerous patches with bits and pieces of content thrown in. Yes, A game should release in a 100% percent finished state. Yes, DLC should not stand…
PSN Name Change – what’s the point?
So today Sony has announced that users can finaly change their PSN online IDs (might not be available in your region just yet, but they are in the process of rolling it out). But just like in the beta announcements, significant caveats remain. Only PS4 games published after April 1, 2018 even officially support the…
Classic Cartoons: The Transformers (S1E01)
Season: 1 Episode: 1 Name: More than Meets the Eye, Part 1 Preface I didn’t get to see much of the original cartoon when it originally aired. For us here in Germany it only started airing in 89, about 5 years after the original release, and only a small portion of it. Altogether 39 out…
Of hard games, accessibility and Easy Modes
It’s this time of the year again. FROMSOFTWARE, japanese gamedev studio most famously known for their “Dark Souls” series have made another game.And just like Christmas happening every year, this too caused the ever same reaction to their releases since their first iteration of “Dark Souls” hit mainstream appeal in 2011. It opened the floodgates…
Short Report: Edna & Harvey – The Breakout
So after several years of having this game “incomplete” (got to somewhere around one third of the game), last weekend I FINALLY completed it. And boy is this game a trip especially towards the end. On the cover, the game looks innocent enough, with its cartoony artstyle, the funnily written characters and the main character…