Groovy! I have mixed feelings about this one. On one hand, the graphics and animations are GORGEOUS. I love this game’s aesthetic, it’s well done and well suited to the genre. I really missed the…

So this one wasn’t in the backlog originally, but some of my friends started a “Video Game Book Club” and this was the first game! Donut County is basically inverse Katamari: you’re a racoon that…

Half Life surprised me with how immersive it is for a game that came out in 1998. Sure, there are barely enough polygons to go around, but the simple gameplay, uncluttered UI, and real-time events go…

This game is wonderful. I went in with basically 0 expectations and here were my reactions, in order:

I’ve been playing a lot of relaxing and comfy games for the past couple of months, for reasons you can probably guess. I’m still on the Animal Crossing train, and then I was playing a bunch of…

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Well, Cats: The Movie is out, and it seems like it’s the complete mess that everyone expected it to be. I’m excited to eventually see it (hopefully with friends, inebriated, at 2AM) because I’ve…

This post is adapted from a talk I gave as part of the University of Rochester’s Music Interest Floor “Tune Up” talks. It’s about the history of the “pizza song” from Spiderman 2 for the PS2: