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  1. My Top 100's Lost but not Forgotten: Dragon Quest VII

    by , 10-26-2018 at 05:42 AM (Wolf Kanno's Crazy Ramblings and Incoherent Statements)
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    I feel like the year 2001 was an odd year in gaming. One of the first time where you really felt like the end of an era and the beginning of a new one was coming. Sony was gearing up to release the successor to the smash hit PlayStation and if you looked around the gaming scene, it seemed like every company was jumping ship to get on board what the PS2 could do. Square had released their PS1 swan song FFIX even though they would still support the PS1 with ...
  2. My Top 100's Lost but Not Forgotten: Arc the Lad II

    by , 03-27-2018 at 10:53 PM (Wolf Kanno's Crazy Ramblings and Incoherent Statements)
    You know the drill by now...

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    One of my all time favorite publishers in the 90s for video games was Working Designs. It was a company that actually tried to get a lot of cool JRPGs released in the West long before the actual JRPG boom in the last years of the decade. I've already spoken about their most high profile title they ever worked on, Lunar: The Silver Star Story, ...
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  3. My Top 100's Lost but Not Forgotten: Final Fantasy III

    by , 03-07-2018 at 08:10 PM (Wolf Kanno's Crazy Ramblings and Incoherent Statements)
    Blah blah blah Top 100 blah blah blah too many good games to list. Blah blah blah, games that weren't good enough for my list but still excellent nonetheless.

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    Of the Classic series within Final Fantasy, FFIII was the last one for me to play, partly cause I didn't emulate very often and partly because I had hoped SE would come to their senses and re-release this title. ...
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  4. My Top 100's Lost but Not Forgotten: I am Setsuna

    by , 02-23-2018 at 06:38 AM (Wolf Kanno's Crazy Ramblings and Incoherent Statements)
    So I did my Top 100 last year, and this year, I'm focusing on a few entries that didn't make the cut for one reason or another. I'll start off by saying that most of the games mentioned in this blog series are all worth playing.
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    I am Setsuna is the freshmen effort from Tokyo RPG Factory. A subsidiary company of Square-Enix tasked with the insurmountable task of trying ...

    Updated 05-02-2019 at 10:33 AM by Wolf Kanno

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  5. My Top 100's Lost but not Forgotten: Demon's Souls

    by , 01-22-2018 at 03:23 AM (Wolf Kanno's Crazy Ramblings and Incoherent Statements)
    So as many people know, last year I did my Top 100 Games list, but as usual, there were a lot of games I loved that just didn't make the mark for one reason or another.
    So to start this off, let's talk about the Granddaddy of the SoulsBorne franchise: Demon's Souls.
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    The PS3 was never a console that grabbed me. I couldn't exactly tell you why either. There was ...

    Updated 05-02-2019 at 10:34 AM by Wolf Kanno

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  6. Mononoke Hime

    by , 11-08-2017 at 01:25 AM (Wolf Kanno's Crazy Ramblings and Incoherent Statements)
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    A few days ago, I went to a midnight showing of Princess Mononoke at the Esquire Theater downtown. The very same theater I went to watch it the first time back in 1999 during it's initial release in the States. At that time, I was an avid anime fan who would consume whatever I could find as the medium was only in the beginning phases of it's explosive popularity in the 2000s, so the prospect of being able to watch an anime flick in an actual movie ...
  7. Fighting Evil by Moonlight...

    by , 06-14-2016 at 08:21 AM (Wolf Kanno's Crazy Ramblings and Incoherent Statements)
    So tonight I finally broke out a Christmas present I received several years ago that I never watched. Partly because for the first time in a long time, I felt ready for it. I acquired a DVD set that featured the entire DiC dub of the first two seasons of Sailor Moon, so basically the original dub, not the new one. Original Western score, Sailor Says, and the whole "Serena and Darien" name changes.
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    It was glorious.
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  8. Defining Gaming as Art

    by , 02-23-2016 at 06:49 AM (Wolf Kanno's Crazy Ramblings and Incoherent Statements)
    This was going to have a subtitle, but they all sounded like pretentious academic papers and that kind of goes against the point of all of this.

    So recently I began reading a very in-depth article series about two series worked on by one of the more influential game designers/writers in my life, Tetsuya Takahashi. I'll leave it up to Google for you to figure out why. Anyway, it was mostly a really well written and interesting analysis of the works and I actually learn a few things ...
  9. Neon Lights, Large soda, and a handful of quarters...

    by , 08-01-2015 at 09:07 AM (Wolf Kanno's Crazy Ramblings and Incoherent Statements)
    So lately I've been reminded of one of my life goals was that I wanted to one day build my own arcade for myself. Get all the games I grew up on and just have a fun little place devoted to letting me play through the classics and relieve the arcade scene I grew up in. I've been discussing this with friends as we try to create a list of the games we would add to the arcade. Of course there would be the classics like Galaga, Gauntlet, Pac-Man, Paperboy, Frogger, and Dig Dug but I also thought about ...
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  10. Trying to remember a feeling.

    by , 11-04-2014 at 09:02 AM (Wolf Kanno's Crazy Ramblings and Incoherent Statements)
    Normally I really hate writing personal posts like this but my strong dislike of EoEO and the fact this topic doesn't feel quite "EoEO material" as well as posting it in the Writing Forum felt weird because it's a bit too personal and I feel that forum should stick to its primary focus.

    So recently I came upon some writer's block with a novel I am working on and so I decided to shift gears and work on a different story instead until I recharge and have a chance to step back ...
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