A Self-Proclaimed Dreamer

     I was driving home the other day after doing something, listening to the Broadway channel on Sirius XM when I heard a song that I recognized, but I couldn't remember where at first. The song was "Breathe" from the musical,  In The Heights, by Lin Manuel-Miranda. If you can't remember it, or if you're not familiar with the show, I'll give you a bit of background about this song as well as one character in particular. We are told that Nina has just returned from college for break, and is spoken of very highly by everyone else in the show. Before she shows up, we meet her proud parents (or father, if you're watching the movie which removed her mother from the equation), and everyone is excited to see her. It's a really interesting way to introduce her to us, as the audience, first hearing about her before we actually see her appear, since she's one of the few major characters that doesn't appear in the opening number of the show.      Nina is...

     This year is a weird one, it's not very often that we get three kart racing games in such close succession, but here we are, getting Mario Kart World in June, and then Sonic Racing Crossworlds and Kirby Air Riders sometime in the near future. As I'm preparing to get back into the racing spirit, I thought I'd take some time today to talk about one of my favorite racing games, Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed . I'm convinced that this is the weirdest racing game that we're ever going to get, and also one of the absolute best. The character roster is absolutely insane, while maybe not hitting quite the heights of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the roster is definitely a bit more wacky and unexpected. Pair that with some really cool mechanics to lean on, you've got a really good game on your hands. I'm very excited to talk about this one today, so let's get our thrusters set and get to it! More Than Meets The Eye!     Sonic and All-Stars Racing Tr...

      Hey friends, it's that time of year where I like to sit down and check out some of the new indie games that have caught my eye in the last few months. Today I have to talk about two of them that I've really been enjoying in the past few weeks. Even though one of them really didn't catch my interest until it was already out, the other one is something that I've been excited for. So I'll go ahead and talk a bit about each of these in what will be a fairly short post today. The Depths Of A Mysterious Factory, or a Funky Void?     The first game I'll talk about today is Star of Providence. You may remember last year that I talked a bit about a game called Animal Well, which was the first game being published by Big Mode Games, the company owned and headed up by the Youtuber Videogamedunkey. That game was great, so when they announced the second game, I had to check it out. I didn't think this game would be for me, because it's a roguelike ship-based sh...