Your Spoony Speedrunner By Levi Rubeck • February 21st, 2018 To watch Final Fantasy IV get flayed so fluently, with a mind-boggling grace not unlike a stolen car getting stripped for parts in seconds…
The Dioramic Ambiance of Overland By Levi Rubeck • February 14th, 2018 It’s very Hemingway-ian in it’s simplicity, which fits the Overland modus operandi so far: by doing less they’re planting the seeds for player generation of the narrative, tending their own stories of failure and maybe success, eventually.
The Sweet Illogic of Cultist Simulator By Levi Rubeck • February 8th, 2018 The body withers, decays, and rots with whatever insight you thought you’d gained back into the earth. Until you start a new game, echoing a past barely remembered.
Getting Tight with my Bros from Insomnia By Levi Rubeck • January 31st, 2018 Eventually we meandered on separate paths, and while I still keep in contact with a couple, most have drifted away or explicitly cut themselves off from their teenage buddies, going incognito and evaporating out into the world.
Blaming the Unchecked Algorithm By Levi Rubeck • January 25th, 2018 Nihei synthesizes the aesthetics of precision manufacturing with a cellular improvisation, crafting the humans and the silicon life out of the same inky molecules.
The Tentacled Spirit of Yharnam, in Card Stock By Levi Rubeck • January 16th, 2018 The pitch void and tentacled spirit of Yharnam has come to your table, in a much more accessible package of thick board stock and gory ink, as Bloodborne: The Card Game.
Eat the Rich and Dance By Levi Rubeck • January 9th, 2018 What better way to roll out 2018 than immediately accounting for what one may have missed in 2017.
Cardboard Fallout is Worth its Weight in Caps By Levi Rubeck • December 19th, 2017 These days I think about the collapse of civilization quite a lot, but this version of Fallout carries the series’s radioactive torch of wasteland fun.
Three Billboards and the Farce of American Society By Levi Rubeck • December 12th, 2017 Her sushi-knife-sharp rebuttal to moral authority was exactly what I wanted and, upon receipt, I was sure her victory could not last.
Gunsword, Casual Repartee, Chess and Dragonlance By Levi Rubeck • November 28th, 2017 Gunsword whipped my head right over with delicious high fantasy visuals that brought to mind the Larry Elmore Dragonlance covers of my youth, and the only thing better than guns and swords is the fusion of the two.