A Self-Proclaimed Dreamer

 Hey friends! It's been a while since I commented on some new game information, and I'm very happy to be back doing that at least for a few minutes here today. There were only a few games that especially caught my attention, so I'll do my best to just focus on the three or four, while bringing up a few to keep an eye on in the end here. Let's try to just jump into the stories here today, because I'm so excited for quite a few of them! Gotta Love New Game Announcements!     The Sony State of Play on June 2 started off with a pretty brutal look at Insomniac's latest game, Wolverine . This game looks pretty awesome, and while I do wish they could be working on one of their original series, such as Ratchet and Clank , after the excellent but short Rift Apart from 2021, their work on the most recent Spider-Man games have also been spectacular (pun somewhat intended). Wolverine is turning the rating up a little bit, from Teen to Mature, due to the kind of ridiculous...

     Hey friends, it has been quite a while since I last wrote on here, but now my semester has ended and I'll do my best over the summer to catch up a bit on some topics I'd love to talk about! First of all, about a month ago, I took a trip with my family down to Orlando, and during that time, my brother and I went to Universal's newest park, Epic Universe. It has been a really long time coming, and I was excited for this park when I saw the first trailer when they put it out several years ago, so I hope you'll join me today as I talk a little bit about the day that I had at Epic Universe.  The Chronos, welcoming us into the world of Epic Universe! So Many Worlds to Choose From!      You enter the park through the Chronos, a portal that leads you into Celestial park, the point of convergence between the four main areas that make up this part, but to just introduce it as an entrance does it a bit of a disservice, to be honest. Celestial Park was the on...

       In 2019, we got the game Control . If you know me, it's entirely possible that you've heard me talk about this game, and I've written about it at least twice here on my blog, so I don't want to go too deep into the deeper themes, but I just wanted to write a little something with Control Resonant coming out this year. In one post, I talked about how it's kind of beautiful how Jesse is able to find herself and take her place as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Control and becomes the one in charge of facing the things that go bump in the night, even though there are so many threats to be overcome even in the first hours of her new inherited job. Today I would like to focus on Jesse's bond with Polaris, and a little bit about believing in yourself, even if your task is so overwhelming. It's been a while since I've written something like this, so it won't be too long today, but I do hope you'll enjoy the long awaited return.     I don...

 Hey friends, it's been a while! I missed all of the last few months, and along with that, I missed a pretty important reminder, that my blog has been around another whole year! As of September, my blog is 5 years old. I need to get caught up a bit on lots of things this week and I'm sorry that I've been gone so long. As I said several months ago, I've been working on taking a few classes on top of my work responsibilities, and it has just taken a lot out of me, I hope you understand! Without further ado, let's talk!     When I started this blog a long time ago, I didn't think that much about it. I was going more than a little stir-crazy during the Covid 19 pandemic, I had been sending what felt like endless resumes out to big jobs that I was interested in, and heard almost nothing back. I also had been thinking about starting a Youtube channel or blog when I was in college, but just never got around to it. This pandemic marked my chance to finally start somethi...

      Well friends, another September Nintendo Direct has come and gone, and this one felt significantly meatier than some others that we've had in the past few months. Of course, we've had a few recently over specific games like Mario Kart World , Donkey Kong Bananza , and Kirby Air Riders , and a Partner Showcase as well as an Indie World, but there's something to be said about a true Nintendo Direct. We got an hour of new games and announcements this morning (at time of writing this), and I'm so happy to report some of them to you all if you didn't have time to watch! Pretty Packed Presentation!     The Nintendo Direct began this morning by talking about Super Mario Bros ' 40th anniversary. The original game came out 40 years ago as of September 13, and they had a lot of things to show off to celebrate! Miyamoto came out to announce some new exhibits being put out at the Nintendo Museum in Kyoto, as well as sharing the fact that Nintendo is sponsoring the Kyo...

      Of course, I ended my last post by saying that I'll probably not be able to write as frequently as I'm going back to school this week, but we did get two presentations yesterday (August 19), so I'll do my best to talk about them! We're still just barely out of the summer season down here, so in a way, this was kind of like a continuation of Summer Game Fest, even though that event was back in June. Time is truly a wild and wacky construct, isn't it? Geoff Keighley was back hosting Gamescom Opening Night Live from Cologne yesterday afternoon (as I was getting out of my first class), but first, we had a 45 minute presentation from Masahiro Sakurai about Kirby Air Riders . Since that's the one I was able to watch all of, I'll talk about that first. A Packed Day!     Kirby Air Riders was briefly teased back in April during the Switch 2 reveal stream, the same stream that showed off Mario Kart World , Donkey Kong Bananza , and a few other titles, but it on...