(AfroGamers.com) Marvel Studios closed out its Hall H presentation at San Diego Comic-Con by handing the vibranium suit to David Jonsson, and the roar that filled that hall carried two things at once: pure joy, and a hush underneath it that nobody really wanted to name. Here’s the part folks ...
(AfroGamers.com) The global appetite for Japanese animation has never looked more voracious, yet the creative daring behind it keeps thinning in ways worth sitting with. Let me put it plain. We won. The culture won. Two decades back, telling somebody at the family cookout that you skipped the game to ...
(AfroGamers.com) Most of us had our favourite shows that we grew up with. These shows became our favourites based on their genre being our favourite, the creators behind it who we can’t help but love or simply the channel the shows played on a lot of times giving what we ...
(AfroGamers.com) Fantasy romance manhwas, as popular as they are, aren’t always safe from criticism – especially from their own fanbases. The biggest one that goes around in the Rofan (standing for romance fantasy) fandoms is how the genre a lot of times overuses tropes, plot lines, and magic systems. As ...
(AfroGamers.com) Kimetsu no Yaiba is one of the best looking pieces of animated work ever put in front of an audience, which is not a controversial position to hold. Ufotable animated this thing like the studio had declared war on visual restraint. The trouble surfaces once you look past that ...
(AfroGamers.com) Let’s get into a few classic video game series that I was never fully onboard with over the decades. This could be down to me not finishing the entire series or most of the games while others are just games I never rocked with but they have long-lived fanbases ...
(AfroGamers.com) Some video game genres exist within a specific period of time. When an indie studio comes along and announces they’re making a game inspired on a somewhat dated genre or they picked up the license, that game tends geared at players from that generation of gaming. I’m talking about ...
(AfroGamers.com) Few franchise reinventions in modern gaming have been praised as thoroughly as Santa Monica Studio’s Norse era God of War, and few have quietly surrendered as much of their original identity in the process. Emotional maturity arrived. Volatility departed. Whether that exchange strengthened the series or simply made it ...
(AfroGamers.com) The strongest asset in Square Enix’s flagship role playing series has never been its airships, its summon animations, or its willingness to end the world halfway through a campaign. It has always been the ensemble. For much of its nearly four decade history, the series earned its reputation by ...
(AfroGamers.com) Let me start with a confession. I have lost entire Saturdays to two dudes screaming at each other in a rock quarry while the sky turns purple and somebody’s hair changes color for the fourth time. I loved it. I still love it. But somewhere between the Cell Games ...