We’ve played a lot these last months, and we’ve had a nostalgic and rocky summer, but have we learnt anything? This journey throughout some of the most recognizable trilogies of the PS2 wanted to shed some light on the aesthetic keys that would lead to our current triple A paradigm…

My last (official) entry dedicated to the Three Trilogies was going to act as an epilogue of the things I’d pointed to until now and which summarized what the triple A experience felt like to me. But fate wanted it for things to take a different turn. …

Talking about Jak & Daxter is a little bit like cheating, when you think about it. It’s a saga that has no meaningful relevance today. It has its followers, of course, but it seems pretty obvious that the people responsible for its creation don’t have any disposition towards creating a…

If one goes back to the reviews at the time, the path that trilogies like Jak, Ratchet & Clank and Sly Cooper would seem to follow is one of continuous ascent, of expectations surpassed and new horizons reached. This kind of breathless praise is common to many instances of the…

With the benefit of hindsight the idea of comparing cathedrals with videogames was kinda lame, even though I wasn’t the first to do it. The relationship is there, I think. In fact, I think it’s feasible to compare any game space with a livable one if it’s livable enough. …

Let’s talk about cathedrals for a minute. I know this sounds tangential to the game with the Lombax and the talking robot, but my ramblings with triple A games are taking to me to weird places. From my view, a cathedral serves above everything else to wow congregates and visitors…

In the two years that lapsed between Precursor Legacy and its sequel, the commercial and artistic landscape of the PS2 was going through a period of standardization that brought about clear winners and losers. The battle to define what was going to be the console’s main experience had been dominated…

In my entry dedicated to Ratchet & Clank I said that triple A 3D worlds from the early aughts were being pulled towards two different directions. One wanted to focus on making worlds bigger and more spectacular, and the other wanted to make shorter but more reactive ones. Finding the…

What defines a triple A experience today? Does it have something to do with unending exploration? In its origins it was probably defined more by the promise it offered of a new world to explore and discover. Super Mario 64 certainly did that, although coming from Nintendo, it predisposed everything…