Peter Tieryas's saved articles

Tremendous guest editor/blogger, as always! Read more

Welcome back, Mr. Tieryas. I remember how to type your name by thinking of mountain climbing. “New tier? Yas”

I wasn’t aware that the main character had a proper name, as he’s one of those “Name this person you’ve never seen before” characters. I’d always called him Ryan. I guess if I combined the two, that’d make him… Read more

You are consistently one of my favorite writers on videogames, just want to let you know :) Read more

The game it took me longest to beat was, of all things, the original Sonic the Hedgehog. I just beat it for the first time last month. When it first came out I was young enough that my platforming skills were mostly non existent, but I managed to get up to the Labyrinth Zone. Unfortunately, that was as far as I got. I… Read more

My Everest was Ocarina of Time. I loved the hell out of that game, but as a kid the shadow dungeon was too spooky for my tastes, so I would grab the hover boots and go on to the next dungeon.

Once I was old enough (and jaded enough) for that dungeon to no longer phase me, I would stop at Ganondorf’s castle. I was… Read more

I’ll never forget the day I beat the first suikoden. By this point The first Suikoden was already a very rare game, I had beaten Suikoden 2 first before I had even seen the first one, then one day I found a copy of suikoden along the massive wall of used PSone games at EB Games. (really dating my self here) I remember… Read more

Welcome back!  I always look forward to seeing what you’re going to say.  :) Read more

Excellent read, as always. Thank you for your analysis on the Water Temple - my feelings are largely the same as yours - I really enjoyed how analytical and forward looking you had to be in order to complete it. Never understood the hate - to me, puzzling is such a big part of what Zelda is about, that the ramp in… Read more

I remember reading reviews at the time and they’ve all echoed the same sentiment that has stuck with me to this day: It’s quite rare for a game to not leave you wanting something extra – some mechanic that, in the mind of the player, was needed. Like playing Resident Evil 4 and asking “why can’t I walk and aim at the… Read more

Not gonna lie, I’m pretty sure it’s my favorite. Read more

Link to the Past is still my all time favorite Zelda title and I don’t think anything will change that. I was hyped for this game when it was announced and it didn’t disappoint. They hit all the right beats with this one and I wish they did more 2D style Zelda games on 3DS at the time, as nice as Ocarina/Majora 3D… Read more

It is an utterly fantastic game and you can tackle it any way you want. For quite some time now Nintendo has been releasing at least one Zelda related title a year but so far nothing this year...if it turned out there’s a Switch version of this on the way then that would be wonderful and it would be amazing to see… Read more