Okay, just one more newsletter out of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond. This’ll be it on Beyond, for a while, at least. I’ve got one more “and another thing!” to get off my chest. Samus is a character, too Samus Aran is a strange type of silent protagonist, when
I wrote about Metroid Prime 4: Beyond last week, and I consider this week’s newsletter to be a “part 2” of sorts. We’re gonna talk about the choices Beyond made with its characters. We’re also gonna talk about blorbos. Massive spoilers for Metroid Prime 4: Beyond… uh…
It’s been a long time. Eighteen years since Metroid Prime 3: Corruption ended on a minor cliffhanger, almost twenty years since the introduction of my blorbo Sylux, and three months on top of all that when my order got caught in shipping limbo. I have finally finished Metroid Prime
Everything is on fire, political tensions are at a fever pitch… and I’m here to talk about portability in game design. Look, I gotta do something to keep myself sane. You think a depressed person could make this? No! A please take care of yourself and your neighbors recommendation
I’m taking a break from video games to discuss something that I briefly mentioned in last week’s newsletter more in-depth. I’ll be talking about gender queerness, microaggressions, exhaustion, political anxiety… and Homer Simpson. Smithers, who is that balding layabout? “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” was a two-part, multiple-season-spanning
First newsletter of 2026! I survived ‘25! The SuperDQP New Year’s Theme A good friend of mine does this thing where instead of making a new year’s resolution, he chooses a theme to aim for with the incoming year. So, as a hypothetical example, rather than choosing a
The final game I want to cover for 2025’s Great Backlog Offensive quickly etched itself into my personal list of favorite all-time games, and for many, many good reasons. If you know me, and you know the game, you could probably easily guess why. Let’s chat about Mother
Almost done. Today’s Great Backlog Offensive newsletter will focus on the popular horror RPG OMORI. I have some thoughts on OMORI. Spoiler warning for OMORI ahead This newsletter is a part of my Great Backlog Offensive miniseries. In 2015 and 2020, these were videos for my now-defunct YouTube channel
GraaAAAAAH! After spending a couple months crunching on writing Alaska Public Media’s Dracula, and another month dealing with unexpected health issues, it’s time for me to write some more newsletters. I’ve got a Great Backlog Offensive to finish and I’ve only got four Mondays, counting today,
Undertale is ten years old. Let's discuss. An overproductive hiatus A few months ago, I took a hiatus from this newsletter in the hopes that it would restfully kindle new ideas and rejuvenate my writing. To be blunt, I was both right and wrong. I spent much of
I recognize that Death Stranding 2: On the Beach is the new hotness right now, and I will have thoughts on it later this year when I finish it (more on that after the main body of the newsletter). But, to be honest, Deltarune beat Hideo Kojima to the punch
Celebrating Pride Month by talking about... Christianity!? How did that happen? Well, I warned y’all that I was going to write about Indika someday. That day is now. Have wishlist recommendation! It will break some of my friends’ hearts to read this, but I must open this wishlist recommendation