Too Much Awesome

Is it just me or has video game music lost a lot of its magic over the years? Give me retro chip tunes over full scores any day.

Trilogies. Is there anything better? Usually, yes. Trilogies have a tendency to crash and burn in the final chapter, or even worse, they add a second trilogy with Midichlorians. Video games tend to throw off the shackles of the trilogy framework in favor of long-running franchises. However, we have some definite instances of trilogies that [...]

I’ll begin with the usual disclaimer I give at the heading of any of my M-rated game reviews: brentalfloss is, in no way, for kids. While hilarious, entertaining, and extremely talented, strong language and subject matter is thrown around like there’s no problem, and if you’re old enough to deal with it there really isn’t [...]

Do I love Mega Man? Yes I do. I even wrote about how much I loved Mega Man 2, specifically. Not long ago Capcom decided to bring the Blue Bomber back to his NES roots and copied the style of his original games exactly for Mega Man 9. Everything was just like it was on [...]

I love video games. I play them frequently (and sometimes write about them, as you may have noticed). I always get excited with every new Mario and Zelda game, or anything that seems to interest me beyond a simple, “Oh, that looks like a fun game to rent.” But when I get down to it [...]

The Nintendo Wii is a fun system, but it is notorious for having a lack of top-tier games on a consistent basis.  But the Wii also has a GameCube processor built in, so let me give you a nice rundown of some games you could pick up for fairly cheap. Note that games re-released for [...]