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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 14 - Nanaki, Vincent and Cid
Part 13Â Having recently survived a theme park prison colony, we're all a bit tired so decide to pay a visit to Red XIII's laid-back home town of Cosmo Canyon. Cosmo Canyon is a bit like a collection of...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 15 - Temple and City of the Ancients
Part 14Having rescued Cid from a life of regret (luring away with the promise of almost certain death), we find out that SHINRA are pursuing Sephiroth to the Temple of the Ancients. They've got a head...
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Part 16: S*** gets real, Cloud loses his s***
Part 15Aeris is dead, Sephiroth got away, and I'm having an identity crisis.This was brought on by my recent blackouts, hallucinations, out-of-body experiences and a worrying tendency towards...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 17 - Tifa takes control
Part 16Sephiroth has unleashed Weapon, SHINRA have captured my friends and I'm tripping out at the bottom of a crater. It looks like I'll be there for a while, so perspective shifts to Tifa.Tifa is...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 18 - Over to you, Cid
Part 17Cloud is lost in the Lifestream, a giant supernatural beast is on the loose, Aeris and Sephiroth are still dead and missing respectively and a meteor is about to collide with the planet. But the...
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The numbers game
I recently listed my top ten games on my tumblr blog following a nomination from Stella. Because my tumblr is mostly visual I added a set of ten images to accompany the list, and saw that most of the...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 19 - Cloud returns, kinda
 Part 18After a nerve-wracking few weeks that have seen Tifa and then Cid try their hand at leadership while Cloud suffered a mental breakdown, fell into the Lifestream and took a journey through his...
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Dual Wielding: Autobiography of a Fangirl
I bang on about Tomb Raider a lot because this is a video game blog, but Lara Croft actually shares the main plinth in my own personal Hall of Fandom with another 90s icon, Tori Amos.This is why my...
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The Banner Saga, and living for the now
Here is a fact about me that will surprise absolutely no-one: I prefer winter to summer.Even though it's only February, I am already hiding from the lengthening days in the chilly embrace of The Banner...
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Lara in my pocket: Tomb Raider on Android review
Tomb Raider on Android is 99p. If you are able to play the game at all it's because you've already spent at least £200 on a phone, so I would only recommend against buying it if you don't have time to...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 20 - Diamond Weapon
Part 19"Diamond Weapon"? Has Final Fantasy VII gone gangsta?Before we find out, a recap. Things just keep going from bad to worse. Not only is Sephiroth still on the loose, but Meteor is still hurtling...
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Mad Max: Fury Road, and doing the right bloody thing
Normally I make an effort not to publish articles that do nothing more than echo the prevailing wisdom of the internet, but I'm going to make an exception for Mad Max: Fury Road because this...
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E3 Roundup!
It’s been several years since I looked forward to E3.  The launch of the current console generation has been tough on everyone, and the budgets of AAA games confine the most creative and risky projects...
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Narrative in Her Story, The Stanley Parable, Gone Home and Papers, Please
I initially set up Well-Rendered to discuss narrative in games, so it seems remiss not to talk about a handful of recent favourites, which are to varying extents experiments in interactive...
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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #8: Bayonetta
Bayonetta, SEGA/Platinum Games (2010)Before the last generation began, I had a lot of time on my hands. Time to cover every inch of my bedroom walls with postage-stamp sized images of my heroes and...
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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #7: Red Dead Redemption
Red Dead Redemption, Rockstar Games/Rockstar San Diego (2010)I'll start this post with a massive oversimplification: when it comes to the driving force behind their art, Europe has history, America has...
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tumblr
We interrupt our regularly scheduled broadcast for the following announcement:Image taken from thenovellife.com.I have started a tumblr. As a person who uses the internet, I see cool stuff all the...
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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #6: Portal
Portal, Valve Corporation (2007)Â Spoiler alertPortal, as I have said many times before, is a brilliant metafictional twist on the entire puzzle genre in which the lab rat gets the better of the...
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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #5: Fallout 3
Fallout 3, Bethesda Game Sutdios/Bethesda Softworks (2008)I know I sound like a broken record, but the one thing a video game can do that no other narrative medium can is give you a world and let you...
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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #4: Mass Effect 2
Mass Effect 2, BioWare/Electronic Arts (2010)I'll settle for "writer" now that I've reached the age where rock stars die, but my number one lifetime ambition has always been "starship captain" (number...
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