Chris Pinner

10/31/2019

Police (Noir) Nauts

Author’s Note: Guess who didn’t actually play Policenauts? This guy. Guess who doesn’t care? Also this guy. Rudie did play it, but he told me to write this up based on our conversation about it. Hideo Kojima’s main understanding of human beings comes through watching movies about them (and not interacting with them). Even in…

07/21/2019

Bloodstained: Can’t Relive My Life

Not officially, because of course Konami holds that license and they aren’t letting it go to anyone, even the guy who did the most to build on it in the past 20 years. But the shadow of that game is inescapable in B:RotN, so it might as well be acknowledged up front, for good and…

01/01/2019

Tamagotchi, But I Am an Adult

In the year 2018, as the world seemd to regularly get more Hellworld on a daily basis, I decided to buy a Tamagotchi. I can admit that I decided to do it long before then, particularly in 2017, when this article showed up on the Ringer, but in 2018 I finally did it. Maybe I…

05/28/2018

Shit, I Might Actually Be A Kingdom Hearts Fan Now

I avoided playing Kingdom Hearts for years. I even start/stopped it a couple times, and certainly had fun talking about it with Rudie in an early episode of HP (Episode 11 – listen here if you dare) but I never could finish one of them dang games. So, it is with great…something…that I announce that…

03/19/2017

Nier: Automata, Thoughts in Progress

The following is just chock full o’ SPOILERS, because I don’t really feel like you should bother writing about a game if you aren’t willing to venture into the entirety of the game, or at least as much as you know about. So consider yourself warned. Before it gets there though, here is the Official Hinge…

12/21/2014