Expi Feliton's Corner

NOTE: This review was previously posted on Tumblr on February 18, 2019, and has been reposted here for archival purposes. It may not reflect my current opinions or recent events. Star Fox is a series that I’d probably say I’m at least a casual fan of. Despite being born in 2001 and growing up in the era of the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, the original game for Super Nintendo has always managed to impress me seeing the SNES’ capabilities of using polygon graphics via the FX chip before systems like the PlayStation 1 and Nintendo 64 came out (which somehow manages to still look better than the Atari Jaguar’s “64-bit” graphics), and it’s always been one of my favorites for the system. And while I still prefer the SNES game, I can’t deny that Star Fox 64 did improve upon it with the Nintendo 64’s more powerful hardware and being the first game that allowed for rumble functionality. And I think the series has always been pretty much constantly good for me, Star Fox Advent...

In May of this year, I wrote an updated review of Overwatch that went over, well, a variety of things, but more than anything, why I enjoyed the game so much in the first place and why I still enjoy it now even despite the issues that have arisen with the game’s state since 2018 (as well as, y’know, the state of Activision Blizzard themselves). It’s a game that, for all of its problems, does mean a lot to me. It was a game that I first played at probably the perfect time in my life when I had fallen to video game burnout on top of anxiety issues regarding my personal life, what other people thought of me and the state of the world in general. For a while, I even considered it my favorite game of all time, and to this day, there just really isn’t a game quite like Overwatch, or at least, one that hits all the right notes for me that Overwatch does. Obviously, I went into a lot more detail regarding my thoughts on Overwatch in said review, but I wanted to bring this up as, with the annou...