Final Fantasy VII Test 0

FF7: The 1st Unfinished AAA Game?

One of the stranger zombie memes still circulating in this year of Our Lord 2023 - a time rife with zombie memes - lazily holds that video games are just toys and gaming a mere hobby. A quick look around the cultural landscape soon reveals that notion as reductive. Vdya…
December 21, 202323 Comments
Death Cult Mouse

Defeating the Death Cult

Hot off the press! Or on the electron superhighway, as it were. Mere hours ago, I joined pop culture commentator and rosary warrior John F. Trent, lately of Bounding Into Comics, on his new show The Trent Report. John is on a mission to save Western culture from the Death…
December 6, 20234 Comments
simpathetic devil

Simpathy for the Devil?

The sympathetic devil trope has become such a mainstay of popular fiction as to be a Pop Cult zombie meme. Audiences - even pro writers  - now take for granted that a demon could choose to do good or even repent and gain salvation. Few people see anything weird about…
November 28, 202320 Comments
SoulBlazer

Soul Blazer

From time to time, I like to give the public at large a glimpse of the fun material my cherished Neopatrons get to enjoy weekly. In that vein, here is a game review previously posted to my Patreon and SubscribeStar. Soul Blazer is a classic Super Nintendo game that has…
November 27, 20232 Comments
Best Evenings

Blockbuster Bellwether

  Glance around online, and you see more and more people discussing the besetting vices of Generation Y. Oh, a lot of them are swallowing the revisionist psyop that's dialed back the start of the Millennial generation to 1979 or earlier, so they use the term "Millennial." But when you're…
November 24, 202327 Comments
Better Art

To Save the West, Make Better Art

By now anyone who's not trapped in an epistemic closure bubble is aware of two facts: The West is caught in a death spiral toward a new Dark Age Voting harder won't pull us out of it. Yet despite the severity of the crisis, nothing is being done about it…
November 21, 202310 Comments
RetroStream

On the RetroStream

The Burned Book has reached Stretch Goal 4! Choose from several sweet perks and get your backers-only invite to the author reading livestream! Pledge now. A conspicuous feature of post-WWII pop culture is that every generation that came up during the postwar boom times adopted its own language based on…
November 9, 2023
Gundam Hathaway

Mobile Suit Gundam: Hathaway

If you've read this blog pretty much anytime in the last 5 years, you're aware of my deep and abiding love for classic anime, especially of the mecha genre. And if you've followed my writing - or anime in general - these years, you may have noted that the industry…
November 3, 20234 Comments
Cracker Island

Cracker Island

One of my chief guilty pleasures when it comes to music is the virtual band Gorillaz. Known for their distinctive blend of electronic, hip-hop, and alternative sounds, the live-animated collab led by Blur frontman Damon Albarn caused a sensation when they burst onto the scene at the turn of the…
October 25, 202312 Comments
Actraiser

ActRaiser

The onset of fall has made me inclined to nostalgia in recent years. It could be the turning of the leaves serving as memento mori, or Western civilization's accelerating slide over the brink. Either way, this time of year gives me the itch to play classic games. And few games…
October 18, 202315 Comments