
A Digital Escape
This year has been something. I’ve been hit with a lot of heavy shit since pretty much day one of the calendar year. Which has left me feeling, well, weighed down.
Japanese Role Playing Games are role playing games that were made in Japan. Though some are made in other countries. So… yeah…
This year has been something. I’ve been hit with a lot of heavy shit since pretty much day one of the calendar year. Which has left me feeling, well, weighed down.
Back in 1997 Squaresoft released the now legendary Final Fantasy VII for the Playstation. In this epic game they did something almost completely unheard of at the time.
While the game may not exactly be “retro”, the subject matter of this game, and it’s place in gaming history is.
On November the 6th, 2022, the next generation of immersion gaming was introduced to the world. The hype was incredible, and thousands logged in as soon as the servers went live. But it only took a couple of hours for things to go very wrong for everyone of them.
In this entry, I take a look at Tales of Arise. An action role playing game that I finished on December 17th, 2021. It is the latest release in the long running ‘Tales’ series by Bandai Namco.
It all started in a previous age, when AOL was still distributed vigorously via floppy disc delivery. My parents got a computer for the family, because that was a thing you did in the mid 90s. Fate was on my side…