Games Related — Dinaburg Writes

My Favorite Games of 2019

I would rather read about someone’s loose framework of rind-rationalizing than further entrenchment of the vanilla oligarchy, so I guess I’m part of the problem. But this list isn’t designed to be “You’re eating your apple WRONG” clickbait—not that anyone admits when it is—and I don’t think I was counterculture for the sake of standing out.

David DinaburgJanuary 5, 2020Final Fantasy Free Enterprise, Sekiro, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Magic: The Gathering, Phantasy Star 4, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Video Games, Top 5

Two Paths to Find Home: On Trials of Mana and Breath of the Wild

Choosing to wrap up Breath of the Wild meant severing a connection to the type of wonder that tends not to survive in adulthood: exploration with no sense of urgency. There was no fear of missing out if I didn’t see the whole game, because what I saw and did was—tautological, I know—all I could have seen and done.

David DinaburgJuly 19, 2019JRPG July, Nintendo, Trials of Mana, Seiken Densetsu 3, The Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild