Too Much Awesome

Coming down from nostalgia is quite painful.

This week, Chase channels his inner Egoraptor and analyzes the game feel of the Pokemon franchise. 

Play Pokémon? Maybe, but never like this you haven’t. Join Chase as he tells the tale of Pokémon Soul Silver in our newest series.

Announcements of a new Pokemon game get some people excited. I am not one of those people.

I don’t even need to preface this article by mentioning that I love Pokemon and consider myself a Pokemon Master of the old ways, but I’m going to anyway. I found myself extremely hopeful last week when I heard they were announcing the next Pokemon title, which everyone just assumed was going to be Pokemon [...]

Any gamer worth their weight in Gil knows that to properly understand video games, one must overwhelm oneself with video games. Chances are, the average gamer has a lifetime of games left to play already in his possession, just waiting to be dusted off, placed in a console, and forgotten completely soon afterward. If you’re [...]

I’m a big Pokemon fan and have been ever since my cousin let me borrow Blue Version and told me to play. I was as hooked as a kid could be, and to some extent I still am. This extended from the games to the toys, as well as the anime, and eventually it settled [...]

If there’s one thing I love, it’s Pokemon. The series, despite doing its best to stagnate, is just as good as it’s always been. However, there’s one place that it’s still lacking entirely: A real Pokemon game on a major console rather than a handheld. We’ve got a few tries, such as Pokemon Stadium 1 [...]

I have to say that in the last year, I have probably watched more anime than I have my entire life. Since I graduated last summer, I finished Samurai 7 (Awesome), Vandred (Annoying main character, but good story), Shikabane Hime (pretty good), Claymore (REALLY good), Girls Bravo (Dumb, but cute), all current 505 episodes of [...]

Today, we talk about one my greatest guilty pleasures growing up. The Pokemon Trading Card Game, and some of the stratigies I found most appealing.