Bungo Stray Dogs: adventures of a self-loathing werebeast and a suicidal maniac
Here’s something I always wondered: why do so many anime insist on having names that have absolutely nothing to do with the actual anime. Like, you would have no idea what kind of show Bungo Stray Dogs was going solely on the name, would you? Well, while Bungo Stray Dogs may have a strange name,… Continue Reading →
Sword Art Online is not a bad anime, guys. You just don’t like it when male protagonists express their feelings.
Sword Art Online is truly a cursed series. Not because it’s bad – but because it’s cursed to be constantly crapped all over just for having been super popular in 2012. It’s like the Nickelback of anime: nobody knows why they hate it; most people haven’t even watched past the first series; but everybody else… Continue Reading →
Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition requires a truly ‘colossal’ investment of your time.
The JRPG genre is famous for having more than its fair share of long-ass games. So the fact that, even amongst JRPGs, this game has a reputation for being a handful is should tell you all you need to know about Xenoblade Chronicles. Originally released on the Wii in 2010, it achieved unexpected critical and… Continue Reading →
So is Nexomon just a Pokémon rip-off, or what?
Love it or hate it, it’s hard to deny that Pokémon is just as (if not more) culturally significant amongst millennials now than it was when we were actually its target audience. Everywhere you look these days, it’s poké-this and poké-that, it gets pretty poké-nnoying after a while. But listen, I understand. Every once in… Continue Reading →
Greedfalls storytelling is at least as good, if not better, than the Witcher III.
The first RPG I ever played was Skyrim on my Dad’s PC. It was so intoxicating and immersive and unlike anything I had played before that, in my mind, it doomed all other RPGs to mediocrity in comparison. I sunk 200 hours into that son of a bitch and still had to resort to modding… Continue Reading →
Introducing Shovel Knight, a retro platformer with character in spades.
I bet I surprised you with my super original title. I bet nobody talking about Shovel Knight has ever made that joke before /s Now that the obligatory shovel puns are out of the way, let’s get serious for a second. Shovel Knight is an action-platformer that takes us back to a simpler time when… Continue Reading →
Gunfire Reborn is a great action roguelite, and it’s going to get so much better.
Gunfire Reborn is a co-op roguelite-FPS that’s been consistently gaining traction online. I don’t typically go in for first-person shooters, but I do go in for cute anthropomorphic animals in human clothes, so I figured I would give it a shot. I was pretty impressed by the quality of the game – the guns, the… Continue Reading →
A Castlevania megafan reviews the Netflix Castlevania series.
Boy, do I love Castlevania. But you know what I don’t love? Crappy cash-in movies based off my favourite franchises. I don’t trust Hollywood with any of my beloved IPs for a second, not after what they did to Warcraft and Monster Hunter. When I heard Netflix was adapting Castlevania into its own anime series,… Continue Reading →
Games that just didn’t tickle my pickle Jan-June 2021: Legend of Legacy, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, Baldur’s Gate and Dragon Quest Builders.
Here on Videogames Make Me Happy, I try to offer a corner of the internet to celebrate every that’s awesome about this amazing medium, unsullied by the general negativity and toxicity of ‘gamer’ culture. There is an understanding here that all games are subjectively ‘good’ to somebody – a lid for every pot and all… Continue Reading →
Let’s talk about Goblin Slayer, and its depiction of sexual violence.
So let me set the scene. I’m browsing my local HMV for a new anime series to watch (I’m old-fashioned so I like to own products outright instead of renting them from streaming services) when season one of Goblin Slayer catches my eye. Huh, Goblin Slayer, I thought. That’s Funimation and Crunchyroll’s little project. How… Continue Reading →
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