After pressing start: Mother 3's saddest day

I’ve written about the first chapter of Mother 3 before, back when this was a proto-blog gasping for air in the cold vacuum of the internet. Quite frankly, the game stands as one of the greatest achievements in video games.

Ness and the Space Invaders

If I was forced to make a list of my favorite games, I wouldn’t pick Earthbound, but I’d really want to. Even after sixteen years, Earthbound is the strangest game in my collection. Even its sequel, the incomparable Mother 3,

Blog: Movies and Novels

Allow me to be philosophical for a moment (and yes, kids, you’re riding with me today! Patricia’s off doing important, Patricia-y things. It’s kind of like having your crazy ex-hippie uncle pick you up for the weekend, the one whose

Character Focus: May's Feature

So, here at Nightmare Mode we have something we’d like to call our ‘monthly feature,’ where we pick a subject or theme, and all participating writers and contributors submit an entry. In May, we picked ‘favorite video game character.’  Read

Death and Pathos: Saving the Princess

Massive spoilers included for: -Shadow of the Colossus (everything) -Mother 3 (Chapter 1, 2, and 6. If you’ve not played it, don’t read it. Go play it.) -Bioshock (everything) -Final Fantasy VII (whaddaya think?) -Braid (ending) -Mass Effect 2 (not