November 2024 – Pixpen
1 post published by Sam Howitt during November 2024| Pixpen
This article contains spoilers. I’m only human. I can’t help but have my feelings on something coloured by a context that surrounds it. Back in 2009 I played Dragon Age: Origins, and I followed up …| Pixpen
This article contains spoilers. I’ve played through Chrono Trigger multiple times and I have a huge fondness for Chrono Cross, but it was only recently that I even considered playing the game in be…| Pixpen
Do you ever feel like you played the right game in the wrong place? I had that when I revisited Final Fantasy IX on the Switch a few years ago. It’s a decent game but that was not the platform to c…| Pixpen
I would not have anticipated playing fifteen Final Fantasy games in a year but I did it. The really astounding part is that’s not even the halfway point, they made so many of these and they’re stil…| Pixpen
So after playing Final Fantasy V and VI, I decided to take a break from the series. I spent that time playing the Resident Evil 3 remake. That game was fun but largely underwhelming in comparison t…| Pixpen
Parts of Chrono Trigger work a little like a magic trick. It’s best to see those in action before learning about how they work. Turn-based role-playing games often have strongly player-driven pacin…| Pixpen
This article will mention story elements of various Final Fantasy games, with major spoilers for Final Fantasy X and XV. Today marks five years since I published my first article about Final Fantas…| Pixpen
Here’s the hub page for my personal Final Fantasy writing. Though I am approaching the series in a mostly linear order, you don’t need to read all articles to understand it all so pick …| Pixpen
This article contains spoilers. I can remember a time where Final Fantasy XII seemed more contentious. It still was largely well-liked, but when the game came up in a room full of nerds there was a…| Pixpen
A phrase that annoyed me for a while was whether a game “respected my time”. It’s something I used to hear a lot on videogame podcasts, and admittedly the reason I might not hear it so much now is …| Pixpen
I respect endings, especially when they’re conclusive. They don’t need to be comprehensive, as it often leads to rushing closure, but I can appreciate the finality of everything being wrapped up. E…| Pixpen
This article contains spoilers for Mass Effect 1 and 2. When I play a videogame with a player-created character, I don’t feel as though I am playing a version of myself. Even when I’ve named them a…| Pixpen
As this game is such a large one that seems to still be growing at the same pace it always has been, I have made the decision to split my coverage of the game into multiple parts. This post will be…| Pixpen
I hadn’t always been an RPG person. I certainly dabbled in them through my childhood and early teenage years, through games like Pokemon, Golden Sun, and Kingdom Hearts. But I didn’t look for consoles because of the RPGs on them. My Playstation 2 was to play Dragon Ball Z Budokai. The game I most wanted … Continue reading A Future From the Past – Mass Effect| Pixpen
This article contains major spoilers for Dragon Quest III. With the recent release of Dragon Quest III HD2D Remake, I felt as though I had to be caught up. In recent years I had only played the ori…| Pixpen
This post contains spoilers for World of Final Fantasy and also a broad spectrum of Final Fantasy. Specific other games spoiled include: Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy VII, Final …| Pixpen
This article contains spoilers for all the Final Fantasy XIV content up to Patch 4.56 For a while I have not managed to keep a consistent position on whether I can consider Final Fantasy XIV one si…| Pixpen
This article contains spoilers for all the Final Fantasy XIV content up to Patch 3.56 Something I’ve found from writing and talking about Final Fantasy is that I use the word “context” a lot. It ma…| Pixpen
This article contains spoilers for Final Fantasy X, XIII and VII Remake. For a long time Square Enix (and Squaresoft going further back) have been willing to use Final Fantasy, one of their biggest…| Pixpen
This article contains major spoilers. The first playable moment of Final Fantasy X put into perspective a lot of what this game does for me. Main character Tidus has to make his way to the big blit…| Pixpen
This article contains spoilers for all the Final Fantasy content up to the most recent expansion as of writing, Dawntrail. After 11 years, Final Fantasy XIV came to an ending. In 2021, Final Fantas…| Pixpen
While the name suggests so, these are technically not Final Fantasy games. In the 90s, Square thought that it would be more appropriate to release Makai Toushi Saga under the name The Final Fantasy…| Pixpen
The original release of Chocobo GP in 2022 was dreadful. This wasn’t because of its quality as a Final Fantasy-themed kart racer, but because of bigger structural problems with the game. A hostile …| Pixpen
This article contains major spoilers for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and multiple other games in the franchise that came before it. There was a lot of promise shown at the end of 2020’s Final Fantasy…| Pixpen
