Welcome back to yet another list of my favorite video essays of the last year! Some might be glad to hear that I have not been terminally online as much as 2022, as this is the first time I’m delivering this article after the year I’m writing about has ended. But being outside a lot
Josh Miller – The Soul-Crushed Father Spiritfarer (Thunder Lotus Games) Credit: Thunder Lotus Games While there are games that can tug at your heart-strings, few games rip them out and set fire to your very soul. Spiritfarer is that type of game. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first started playing it, but
Graydon Webb – The False Prophet Vaas Montenegro – Far Cry 3 Credit: PC Gamer “Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?” These 11 words set the tone for one of gaming’s most iconic villains, and arguably one of the greatest games of all time. Far Cry 3‘s most beloved antagonist,
Graydon Webb – The Contrarian American Running from the Voices Sea of Solitude (8th generation consoles & PC) I’m a real sucker for games about mental health. Having mental issues of my own for a majority of my life, I find myself either relating to these stories or, at the very least, enjoying getting a
Josh Miller – The Family Man That Dragon, Cancer I can’t imagine anything hits harder than the loss of a child. Nobody should ever have to experience that, and hopefully, I’ll never have to. Amy and Ryan Green did though. To help process those emotions and bring something positive out of a true negative, they
For lack of a better article name, this bit on ugly special edition consoles will go down as a “flashback”. While there are certainly older consoles below to flashback too….the industry hasn’t truly moved past it. We still get a variety of special edition consoles. Many good. Many bad. So I thought…let’s check some of
Welcome back to yet another look at my favorite video essays of the year, this time of 2022. I have been just as terminally online this year as I was last, so I have a lot of videos to shout out. And of course, I’m always looking for more, so if you know a video
Graydon Webb – The Fearless Optimist Accessibility Improvements For All! While I’m excited about a lot of games on the horizon that I hope release in 2023, my biggest hope for this coming year is a deep dive into accessibility. Allow me to explain my three biggest wishes. Number One: I’d like the Big Three
The era of Saturday Morning Cartoons was quite a time to be alive and aware of. From the 1980s to the early 2010s, there was an incentive for kids of that era to wake up early. You got to see cartoons and animated series that you would not usually see. These varied from Western Dubs