JAYME RUSSELL: My biggest goal for the summer has been to distract myself. Here are some of those distractions.
Category: Video games
Never Being the Same Dog Twice: On the video game “Everything” by David OReilly and the novel “Fifteen Dogs” by André Alexis
JACE BRITTAIN: The emotional and poetic resonance is contingent on the characters being neither perfect representations of dogs or humans.
Splendor and Loving the Treadmill: Final Fantasy XV
GABRIEL OJEDA-SAGUE:
Reading through the criticisms of Final Fantasy XIII and the recently released Final Fantasy XV, all of them agree the graphics are beautiful. These titles undoubtedly have the most advanced graphics of the franchise. But I feel, as I read these review and essays, that they leverage the games’ advanced graphics against them as a sly way of implying that the game succeeds only superficially.
