Final Fantasy Tactics: The Ivalice Chronicles, a retrospective

Thoughts on beating the game for the fifth time across all its versions, from the original PlayStation, to the PSP, and now the modern remake.

October 19, 2025 · 9 min · 1821 words · Tipa

The Zen of Final Fantasy Tactics

There’s the recommended way to play Final Fantasy Tactics. And then there’s the way I play it.

October 6, 2025 · 4 min · 704 words · Tipa

The Dishonesty of Balatro

Now that I have finally won the game, I have some thoughts…

June 15, 2025 · 4 min · 819 words · Tipa

I Know What I Did Last Weekend

Sometimes I just want to play games to relax. Sometimes.

June 3, 2025 · 6 min · 1159 words · Tipa

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 1/3

Clair Obscure: great gameplay, characters and milieu, but its third act seems in a hurry to get off the stage.

May 18, 2025 · 6 min · 1096 words · Tipa

Monster Hunters Wilding

I like to think of the Monster Hunter series being set in the same world as the Pokemon games.

March 24, 2025 · 4 min · 801 words · Tipa

FANTASIAN Neo Dimension (Part 1)

A throwback to the classic JRPGs set in handcrafted dioramas, Fantasian Neo Dimension is a love letter to the Final Fantasy series.

January 21, 2025 · 6 min · 1088 words · Tipa

Star Wars: Outlaws. Just you and your "cat" against the galaxy.

This game took a lot of flack for being a buggy mess when it came out, but at least on the PS5, it’s a fun, if slow paced, open world adventure in the Star Wars universe.

December 1, 2024 · 4 min · 701 words · Tipa

LEGO Horizon Adventures

I hurried through Dragon Age: the Veilguard because I knew this was waiting for me to finish.

November 23, 2024 · 4 min · 797 words · Tipa

Dragon's Dogma 2: Battahl Bound

Nobody ever sleeps in Battahl.

April 1, 2024 · 3 min · 529 words · Tipa