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Random Rankings – The Kingdom Hearts Series

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WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for the Kingdom Hearts series

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If you really think about it, Kingdom Hearts is one of the weirdest success stories ever. I mean, it’s a Disney/Final Fantasy crossover. This is the kind of thing you’d see in fan-fictions from the mid-2000s; not a professionally made videogame series. Yet, somehow, it worked and has a large following of dedicated fans the world over – me being one of them.

While it’s certainly had its ups and downs, I still wholeheartedly love this series, despite my personal gripes with it, and am more than excited for when Kingdom Hearts III inevitably drops (whenever that is). In the meantime, I’ve decided to go through the entire series thus far to see how each entry stacks up against each other. Which games do I adore with all my heart and which ones do I wish I could cast into the darkness? Let’s find out together, shall we? Continue reading →

The Entertainment Dome Episode 51 – Sonic Forces… Me to Relive Emotional Trauma

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WARNING: The following episode contains spoilers for Life is Strange

This week on The Entertainment Dome, James fulfills his promise from last week and decides to provide his two cents on Mass Effect: Andromeda, before moving onto gushing about his recent experience with Life is Strange and I wrap things up with some brief opinions on Sonic Forces and how Sega’s handling its PR (apologies for the peaked audio).

My VG Music Picks #33 – Hikari -KINGDOM Orchestra Instrumental Version- (Kingdom Hearts)

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You ever have one of those pieces of music that just brings a smile to your face every time you hear it? For me, this is easily one of those tracks. Despite it technically being an orchestral cover of the first game’s main theme, Simple and Clean, I’ve always treated this as its own track; one that represents the entirety of the franchise. Continue reading →

The Entertainment Dome Episode 21 – United in Sadness

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This week on The Entertainment Dome, our RWBY talk is finally over… and James is not happy. We spend a good while discussing Volume 3 and how it’s simultaneously amazing and heart-breaking, as well as some of our hopes for Volume 4. We also manage to get some quick pre-E3 news in (or as I like to call it, PrE3); specifically some of the leaks that have already emerged.