The Primary Source: Why Video Games Need Language Options

It’s fair to say that many works of art or literature can only be fully understood in their original language.  Translations are important--vital--for reaching a wider audience, and can in rare cases reach levels equal or surpassing the original work, but if you are writing say, a scholarly paper, as much as possible you would want to reference the original language with all its untranslatable nuances and obscure cultural idioms. Even for more causal audiences some of the most useful-and desirable-books have a translation on one side followed by the passage in the original language.

Zelda, Pokémon and Easy Games: Gaming Log 6/23/18

I think I have played Ocarina of Time too much. It just isn’t as magic as it used to be. Granted it’s still a great game but I am thinking I need to put it up for a few years. If you play a narrative driven game too much it starts to become stale. 

Some things never get old. Other's were old from day one. No, Navi I don't want to talk to you!

The Legend of Nostalgia: Ocarina of Time 3D Master Quest

What makes a game a masterpiece? Initial reaction or staying power?

There are very few games that have had the kind of impact and cultural legacy of Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. When it first came out it blew my mind and I honestly considered it the best game ever made, an opinion I held for the better part of twenty years. This is a game I have replayed almost every year for the past ten years in some form or another, If I was shipwrecked and I could choose one game to bring with me, this would probably be it.

It's like Nintendo put my childhood in a bottle and sold it back to me.

Pokemon: Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee: Trailer Reaction and Speculation.

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There has long been a complaint - or at least I’ve long complained - that Pokémon GO has no connectivity with the rest of the franchise. It’s just a standalone mobile game with little to connect it to the series but character sprites.