Life on the Floating Island

Whether it’s Link in Link’s Awakening, or Mario in Super Mario Bros. 2, Nintendo characters have strange dreams.

When I think back to my childhood and teenage years, when my literary tastes were being forged in the crucible of…

When Scott Udall first played Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance shortly after it came out in 2005, he was in a…

I collect games like I do books: stacking them on shelves or in boxes, never quite finding the time to finish them…

In Final Fantasy VI, the villains triumph. It’s one of the most shocking moments in gaming. As devastating at the…

In the first few minutes of Final Fantasy VI, just when you think you’ve got a sense of the game’s rhythm,…

Contrary to how most people play RollerCoaster Tycoon, crashes aren’t my first preference. Too much indiscriminate…

Most NES games have not aged very well. The Nintendo Entertainment System relied too much on antiquated principles…

My lengthy first tour of No Man’s Sky was a disappointment. I spent 30 hours skating across the surface of an…

Underwater survival game Subnautica has a lot of things that can kill you. As has long been a point of contention…