Ben Bertoli's saved articles

Finished SotC in just over 5 hours on your first ever playthrough?  Dayum, guess I spent too much time exploring and climbing that final boss over and over when I screwed up jumps.  (Great game, but some camera problems on last boss)
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When I was playing that final level, I just assumed it was a modified Statue of Liberty. Read more

I work in animation and goddamn do I appreciate the amount of work that went into this commercial!
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Where does one get all of these unedited greenscreen effects?
Because that would be the key to meme city. Read more

Sega does what Nintendontoni?
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Oh man, I think I remember bouncing up and down in front of the TV to this. Read more

Man, the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons. Ah, the memories. Read more

Peach is clearly falling to her death. Yum. Read more

Despite the obvious time differences I sometimes like to think that certain Nier Atomata endings could mean that Yorha might still be fighting alien robots thousands of years later while Inkopolis exists on the other side of the world.

I wouldn't call it surprising. The series has always been this way when you looked beneath the surface. Read more

Mr Grizz is definitely going to be the villain of the next Splatoon, egg-stealing capitalist manic that he is Read more

Hey I really liked this article, nice job. Read more

That song is the funniest thing I’ve seen in a game in a while purely for how unexpected it was. Read more

Octo theme aside, I think that fact that there were 10,008 test subjects is also a play on Buddhist numerology and the #108. From wiki: “In Japan, at the end of the year, a bell is chimed 108 times in Buddhist temples to finish the old year and welcome the new one. Each ring represents one of 108 earthly temptations… Read more

I bought the hd collection on ps3 and I wanted to love both games the controls on sotc were hard for me to get used to and I never got invested enough to keep playing. Read more

I loved this DLC. It was worth every penny. Just the expansion on the lore alone made it worth it. It also helped that the gameplay was great. :P Read more

Katamari’s controls gave me hell when the game came out. Eventually I became so comfortable with them I could pick up and play no problems years later (while under the influence of psychedelics. Trust me; Trying to figure out weird controls is it something easily done tripping). I think once you get it, your good for… Read more

Super metroid is still the best metroid Vania of all time, imo. And I came into the genre late. I think my first metroidvania was metroid fusion on 3ds.  Read more

I also played Super Metroid a bit late, around 2000 or so. But far from finding it overrated, it quickly earned a spot on my favorite games of all time. Same goes with Final Fantasy VI and Yoshi’s Island. For some reason, SNES games are evergreen - they seem to get in that sweet spot between ugly-pixels-NES and… Read more

And wouldn’t you know it, ol’ foamy phone just so happens to have a giant solar-powered humanoid statue head armed with a deadly laser.
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