Most known for horror stories, Stephen King’s The Gunslinger departs from his typical writings and is the first book in the Dark Tower series. Originally published in 1978, the story follows a gunslinger shrouded in mystery who becomes known as Roland. Not much is known about him other than that the fact that he’s been wandering…
Record of Agarest War is a turn based strategy game for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. It is quite similar to Final Fantasy Tactics in both the battle system, the world map and story flow. Many games have departed from this simple, yet fun and strategically rewarding formula, so it’s nice to see a game…
Code Geass is an animated series that was first aired in Japan in 2006. The series is set in the future, in which Britannia, a massive superpower that controls over a third of the world has taken over Japan, renaming it Area 11. The main character, Lelouch, is an exiled prince of Britannia who vows…
Advance Wars is a turn based strategy game. It was originally released on the Gameboy Advance and sequels have been released on the Nintendo DS. Made by the creators of Fire Emblem, the game is an in depth turn based strategy game that can be a bit difficult to get the hang of at first….
Advance Wars was originally released in America in 2001. It presented a very new system of turn based strategy. Since then, three franchise sequels have been released, all of them following the same basic formula, though adding on to the original. (Note: The newest game (Advance Wars Days of Ruin) is quite a bit different…
Final Fantasy VII has come to be the most well known RPG of all time. Released in 1997, it has sold over 9 million copies worldwide. But why did it become so popular? Why did it become so famous while other good RPGs remained obscure? The answer is much more than the fact that Final…
Endworlds: Echoes of Worlds Past is an imaginative work of science fiction that weaves many unexplained scientific events such as the Norway Spiral together into one tale about the Earth coming into contact with another galaxy that would trigger an extinction event and a group known as longcoats trying to prevent it. The author, Nicholas…
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 The Harry Potter series, written by J.K. Rowling, is an incredibly successful work of literature. There are clothes, accessories, the books themselves, the movies, and more. But, as often happens with things attached to massive titles like this one, oftentimes profits can outweigh accuracy and actual quality…
#5 Monster Hunter Monster Hunter was released in America in 2004. It puts the player in the position of a hunter, who starts with small quests such as gathering raw meat and what not, but eventually working up to the main focus of the game, which is fighting large and powerful Wyverns, the most famous…
#5 Front Mission 4 Front Mission 4 was released in America in 2004. People that are new to gaming know the Front Mission series as a giant robot action game. This, however was not the case all those years ago. Front Mission 4 is a turn based strategy game. The player follows two storylines, that…
Anyone who reads Fantasy books (From my experience) knows that the hardest part of figuring out what to read is not only finding a new series to read, but also figuring out which book is the first one in said series. The first book in a Fantasy series is crucial. If it isn’t good enough,…
