Got Gacha in Mobile Games (KH Unchained / Union X)
In the recent video games related news, there are a lot of mentions of loot boxes or loot crates from games like Star Wars Battlefront II, Need for Speed Payback and Call of Duty WWII, but I will leave those games and their problems for another time. Those kind of micro transactions have existed in mobile games for quite some time, but for a bit different purpose. I want to use Kingdom Hearts Unchained / Union X as an example of how much impact these transactions have on a localized mobile game.
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Call of Duty WWII: Explosive Show of Insensitivity?
I am not an FPS fan, nor have I ever been a fan of the Call of Duty series. I hold nothing against it, but it seems that in their goal to bring the sensitive issues of war, Nazis, and Jim Crow America to light became an insensitive and irresponsible design of historical revisionism and inadvertent abuse towards black people. Continue reading “Call of Duty WWII: Explosive Show of Insensitivity?”
Storytime: Looking Back At Pokemon On A Piece of Paper
Pokémon cards have been as memorable as the anime or the video games. Nowadays, the whole trading cards business has boomed so much – it got tournaments, trading cards game and a massive fan base for both collecting and competitive playing. And I am a part of it, more or less in an old fashioned way.
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The Eluding Great Plot Twist of Persona 5
Persona 5 is a massive narrative behemoth with an ample collection of twists and turns – the greatest of which is easily missed by the majority of players, I reckon. So, without further ado, let’s talk about the elephant in The Velvet Room. Continue reading “The Eluding Great Plot Twist of Persona 5”
Is This Even Allowed? (The Last Of Us 2 Trailer)
This week was the Playstation Media Coverage from Paris Games Week. The live footage featured several games’ updates and announcements. Since there wasn’t much that I was personally interested in, I didn’t write about the coverage for Busy Potatoes. In case you have missed, here is the link. The most critical point was the ending of the coverage with a new trailer for The Last of Us: Part II. It stood out for sure … for the wrong reasons.
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