Sentiment Has No Value: American Yakuza (1993) on Arrow Video Blu By Orrin Grey • February 20th, 2026 For those who don’t remember, the early 90s were relatively obsessed with yakuza vs. mafia stories.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Monsters on the Prowl: How Jack Kirby Monsters Lured Me into the Vs. System By Orrin Grey • February 11th, 2026 Getting into the weeds of explaining all those various monster names.
I Played It, Like, Twice... The Woods Are Lovely, Dark and Deep: On Why I Haven’t Played Root, Like, Twice By Orrin Grey • January 13th, 2026 I picked it up because of Kyle Ferrin’s art.
Life in the Human World is Far from Perfect: Watching Saga of the Phoenix (1989) Without Knowing What’s Going On By Orrin Grey • January 8th, 2026 The Hell Virgin is actually a pretty good-natured sort.
Feature Story Children of the Charnel House By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2025 The story of Frankenstein, like so many others, has become something else, something that we each build for ourselves, piece by piece.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Too Big to Succeed: Warhammer Quest and the Imposing Scope of Blackstone Fortress By Orrin Grey • December 12th, 2025 Blackstone Fortress is an elaborate, ambitious, impressive game, but it was also the first of the Warhammer Quest installments to become too intimidating for me.
No Place for Heroes: Surviving in Spaaaaaaace with Outland (1981) and Red Planet (2000) By Orrin Grey • November 19th, 2025 Both look and sound probably about as good as their source material would ever allow them to, which honestly isn’t bad in either case.
I Played It, Like, Twice... See You in the Next Adventure: The Familiarity of Yokai Quest By Orrin Grey • November 12th, 2025 There are skeletal hone bushi, classic yurei, old-fashioned oni, and much more – including some sinister ninjas, of course.
What a Way to Live: Gary Sherman’s Eegah, aka Death Line (1972) By Orrin Grey • October 27th, 2025 The cannibalism angle is played up in the alternate title, Raw Meat.
Feature Excerpt Grave Goods: Sepulchre and the Game as Object By Orrin Grey • October 24th, 2025 There is the hobby of playing board games, and then there is the entirely separate hobby of buying board games.
