Elementary Gaming

Nate reviews Final Fantasy 5, the Pixel Remaster version. It's the best one so far. He also searches for meaning in life itself.

Nate reviews Master Detective Archives: Rain Code. It's excellent. Kodaka does it again.

Discussion of Big Spoilers begins at 29:30.

Danganronpa 3 spoiler mentioned at 31:00.

"The game...is fun. If it's not fun, why bother?" -Reggie Fils-Aimé

With this in mind, why bother with Banjo-Kazooie?

In this double-feature, Nate reviews two Nintendo Switch games: Ori and the Blind Forest, and West of Loathing. Ori is great and West is quite good. He also longs for the 2000s.

Nate reviews the 2001 Game Boy Advance game, Mega Man Battle Network 1, which establishes a great foundation for the series but is full of odd design choices. He also laments how many Pokémon there now are, because 151 was a perfect number.

Nate reviews The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for the Nintendo Switch. He also reads the Sunday comics.

Nate reviews Star Ocean: First Departure R for the PS4, a remake of 1996's Star Ocean. It has a lot of good ideas that it doesn't fully deliver on. He also writes a bestselling novel.

Nate reviews Red Dead Redemption 1, the 2010 classic. He also reads Infinite Jest, just for fun, and finds that about 80% of the book is unnecessary, but 20% of it is great.

Note: When I said "continent", I definitely meant "country". Also, you do herd horses at the end! Not cows. I second guessed myself for some reason.

Nate reviews the seminal PS1 JRPG, Wild Arms. He also ranks all of the Simpsons couch gags from worst to best, based on humor and artistic value.

In this episode of Elementary Gaming, Nate talks about two of his favorite game series of all time: Mega Man Battle Network for the Game Boy Advance, and Mega Man Star Force for the DS. He also contemplates the deeper meaning of Amy Schumer's riveting stand-up comedy.

Note: The word I was looking for at 18:00 was "isometric". Not sure why I couldn't recall this at the time.