Recent content by Koselara

FYI... "Howl's Moving Castle" was a loose adaptation (character development & part of the plot converted to generic 'anime' types) of a young-adult novel of the same name by U.K. author Diana Wynne Jones. It can't quite be used in comparisons of good/bad anime, since the underlying story wasn't...

The "strength" described as being the main lesson in Anime is actually what was traditionally held up as the goal for Western women until recently. Ask your grandmother (or your mother, if she was born in the early 50s or before) what a "good" girl was like when she was a kid, and what the...

Eh, I have a mother, ex-stepfather, and ex-bf with narcissistic personality disorder that are like that in real life. The losers don't grasp that other people are often "nice" because we already went through a bratty-jerk phase as kids, got to know our limits & abilities, then matured enough to...

Personally, I liked and -- as a thirty-year-old that's trying to get back out of the "eh, games are for kids" demographic -- agree with the article. What "Aunt Wendy" wrote about basically is why a lot of people I know, that had been avid gamers since preschool, quit in the mid-late 90s. Most...

First, thanks for the interesting article, though I can't critique anything about comic books since I'm only now considering getting into them outside a few web-comics... However... What's with writers at Escapist slamming non-game formats (even while praising one of them)? I know it's not a...

Blaming school shootings on video games makes it clear he hasn't bothered to research the shooters; dismissing what happened as the person simply being "crazy" also misses the target. The best explanation I've ever seen, evidence and all, is How To Create A School Shooter...

Story is an important thing in genres where it makes sense -- yeah, if you're totally into arcade button-mashing, it's probably not necessary. If you want an intense experience on a more personal level, then there will need to be a plot to structure your actions around, otherwise your...