Final Fantasy IV – Episode 10 – More Gimmicks!
Wow this Final Fantasy IV episode took some effort to record. My first attempt ended with a sudden power cut, leaving me in the dark for nearly five hours. When […]
Final Fantasy IV – Episode 9 – Lose your temper, win the fight!
New week, new Final Fantasy IV episode. This week we pick up where we left off. As it’s become tradition in this playthrough, I ended the previous episode by dying […]
Final Fantasy IV – Episode 8 – Shifty Eyes
And we’re back! In this episode of Final Fantasy IV, we get things ready, buy some items and other fun stuff and find the back door into Baron castle, intent […]
Final Fantasy IV – Episode 7 – Going Glam!
Let’s kick off this week with a new episode of our Final Fantasy IV playthrough! Last time we had a bit of a shaky trip thanks to the inopportune Lord of […]
Final Fantasy IV – Episode 6 – Plot Mountain
Whoo boy was that an eventful Final Fantasy IV episode last week! Made it through the mountains, met a monk, killed bombs and their mothers and mounted a pathetic and […]
Final Fantasy IV – Episode 5 – Fabul-ous!
Last time on Final Fantasy IV we explored the Antlion cave, fought the big monster in its lair and collected the Desert Pearl for Rosa, healing her and finally getting […]
Final Fantasy IV – Episode 3 – 90s Nickelodeon
In this third episode of Final Fantasy IV, we continue our way to Damcyan, but first we fight the Octomammoth!
Final Fantasy IV – Episode 2
Last week had a lot going on in the first Final Fantasy IV episode. Departed from Baron, blew up Mist, rescued the little girl summoner, Rydia and even made it […]
Final Fantasy IV – Episode 1 – Brood Knight
It’s been a while since I recorded a playthrough with commentary, aka a Let’s Play. But with the release of Final Fantasy XV and especially because of its promise to […]
Final Fantasy XV – Frustratingly Great
I’ve been playing Final Fantasy XV since last week and I’m getting closer to the end of the game, especially after the day-long play time I had during the weekend.
My Top 5 Final Fantasy Games
With the release of Final Fantasy XV and my first few hours with the game, I predictably began drawing comparisons between this Final Fantasy and its predecessors, and this naturally […]
Final Fantasy XV – First Impressions
My Tuesday began very early, as I had trouble sleeping and woke up at around 5am. Having deleted my old Playstation Network account because I moved countries and you can’t […]
Top Five Bad Tropes in JRPGs
Yesterday I spoke of the best things in Japanese Role-Playing Games aka JRPGs. I spoke of the scale, the length of the video games and how complex they are no […]
Five things I love about JRPGs
A couple of days I go wrote about the common elements in RPGs that I wasn’t really fond of, and JRPGs—that is Japanese RPGs—popped up a few times, both for […]
The Levelling Perspective
It used to be that you could measure game time in an RPG with just how much you levelled up. To say in Final Fantasy VI that you reached level […]
Annoying Game Mechanics – Timed Sequences
Annoying Game Mechanics are those that just make you groan when you see them in a game. You’ve seen them at their best but you’ve also seen them at their […]