Sky's Write-Up Compendium

  One thing I’ve noticed about myself and my gaming habits is that I don’t often make time to revisit games. Once I’ve rolled the end credits on something, even if I really enjoyed my experience, chances are I won’t be visiting that game again for quite some time, if I ever return to it at all. It’s because of this habit of mine that makes me hold the games that I DO make the time to revisit in higher regard. There’s something special about the games that call out to me even when all is said and done, that I can’t help but want to make the time for again. Most recently, I’ve found myself with a burning desire to revisit The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds in my free time. I had first played and beaten the game in 2024, where it very quickly became my favorite top-down entry in the series. I’ve always gravitated towards Zelda’s 3D offerings more than its 2D ones, and yet ALBW just provides me with something that no other game in the series does in quite the same way. Mainly,...

  P art one predominantly focused on the franchises that I got into at a young age. They’re the ones that have been in my mental sphere the longest and my more formulative experiences growing up. This week, we’re focusing on the series I discovered in my teenage years and onwards, which are all JRPGs. JRPGs have defined the later half of my gaming career, and while I haven’t touched absolutely every series out there, I have played enough to have a good understanding of the different flavors of the genre I’m looking for that the next three series provide for me. These franchises are Megami Tensei , the Trails series, and Dragon Quest. I haven’t only played the franchises listed here and have favorites from other series such as Final Fantasy and Xenoblade, but as a collective whole I can always rely on the three we'll discuss here to get me through tough life experiences with a good time. Megami Tensei : I got into anime around the end of 2014, when I watched the 2011 version of ...

Video games as a medium contain a vast ocean of genres and franchises for people to explore, and inevitably people will find those series. The ones that, for one reason or another, resonate with you above all others. This can be for a number of reasons. Maybe they’ve been around for years or they helped you get through a rough patch in life. As we play and explore, inevitably we find the select series that we become the most attached through. Throughout my life, I’ve more or less established a group of series that I can reliably turn to whenever I’m absolutely positive I need a good time. So to help mark the beginning of this blog, I wanted to reflect a bit about my journey with these series. How I discovered them and why they still resonate with me today. This won’t be a complete history because that’d take way too long and my memory admittedly leaves much to be desired, so think of this more as a general overview for why these series in particular stand out so much in my eyes.  ...