Eh? Surprised to see me out this late? Keh-heh, I was under the assumption that my strolls by nightfall were common knowledge already... Kuhuhu... After all, it's only on crepusculent nights like these that that the lustrous veil of stars in the sky above us divulges the secrets embedded within their stellar bodies... It's up to those who walk burdened by the lacerations of gravity to open their e... » Continue Reading
The day has finally come... The fated arrival of Silver Wolf in Honkai Star Rail... After saving for weeks, and strenuously enduring several hours of server downtime, I finally found myself eagerly sitting in my seat, staring at the effulgent banner displayed on my computer screen... I calmed my nerves, placed my hand over my computer mouse with impressive tact, and pressed down on left click with... » Continue Reading
Today marks the last day of Jing Yuan's banner in Honkai Star Rail... Though I found myself with the great fortune of pulling him before it was too late, his thunderous arrival came at no small cost - over 100 total pulls, and a failed 50/50... While both his immaculate design and captivating gameplay leave little room for desire, the thirst to gamble gnaws at my ephemeral soul as the blistering h... » Continue Reading
Hark, all Ominous Hombres! Today, I completed the infamous visual novel, Saya No Uta, otherwise known as The Song of Saya. Accustomed to the immense length of other visual novels, I was surprised, and perhaps even a small bit relieved to learn that this story was only a few hours long, and I completed it in only 3 days. The perfidious novel focuses on the twisted romance of the college student Sak... » Continue Reading
Though I found myself taking somewhat of a break from playing fighting games recently, as I've focused on my hobbies such as reading high literature and writing tragic fiction, the launch of Street Fighter VI has reignited the passion for virtual combat within me... As I played, I began to ruminate on the circumstances relating to fighting games... Particularly, non-fighting game players perspecti... » Continue Reading
The long-awaited newest entry to the Street Fighter series has finally arrived! The one and only Street Fighter VI! While I personally find the name to be rather... creatively destitute, I believe that there are faint traces of beauty in the perennial tradition that the platitudinous and simplistic title that the series has maintained all these years. However, my reprehensible history with the ser... » Continue Reading
Pitter, patter. Hrm... It seems as though my studies have been interrupted by the melancholy fanfare of precipitation yet again... As I write this, I find myself sitting comfortably in my computer chair, a book compiling several of Lewis Caroll's works in front of me, open to nearly precisely the very middle of the book... As the sound of cascading rain colliding with the window next to me finds i... » Continue Reading
Risk of Rain... An indie rogue-like released all the way back in 2013, an entire decade ago... To think, I played the game on release... My memories of it are resplendent, blinding in their brightness, and eye-opening in their clarity... Yes, I have always held a soft spot in my bitter heart for this game... I would play it with friends online for hours, and struggle desperately in vain attempts t... » Continue Reading
My Delinquents of Doom, today, this dark evening, I have received news so wonderful that it brought a tear to my crimson eye... The Wanderer, my most desired Genshin Impact character, has finally been leaked... Though I will have to wait roughly 4 banners, an excruciatingly long time when awaiting the arrival of one's beloved, I shall muster all the patience to be found in the molecules that bind ... » Continue Reading
A docile wind blew across my face, its gentle touch attempting to lull me from the deep state of inner contemplation that I had unknowingly entered. A pleasant gale that sought to steal my attention away from my somnolent state, its existence similar to that of a butterfly, in that its boundless beauty was accompanied by a stark fragility that begot the future of its inevitable absence in this wor... » Continue Reading
At some point in every man's life, regardless of lifespan, they are faced with a choice... To walk the shunned path of the Gacha Addict, or to dwell in the shadows of normalcy... To choose the latter, is to choose a life filled to the brim with peace, albeit at the cost of forgoing true enlightenment... To choose the former... Is to sacrifice everything. All love, no matter how beautiful. All hate... » Continue Reading
In a world filled to its brim with the water of stale, stagnant open-world games, mere drops away from having its contents overflow and spill out uncontrollably, resulting in irreparable harm, there can be found a paltry few games which deviate from the overwhelming minimap icons and tedious side-quests... The recent masterpiece from FromSoftware, Elden Ring, was thought by many to be the unparall... » Continue Reading