Marsh, Mike and Kaz ponder their own need for a nature escape. Henry continues his awkward walkie-talkie tryst. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOEqAc6pE_4
Just Play Firewatch (Part 2) – Climbing Up Pride Rock
More chasing drunk teenagers, soaking in nature, awkward conversation, and pondering buying stocks in Zoom in early 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzUqHchVj2M&feature=youtu.be
Just Play: Firewatch (Part 1) – Traumatizing Teenagers
Marshall, Michael and Kazuo return to Let's Playing with the beloved 2016 indie darling Firewatch! It feels so good to soak in nature and semi-stalk a couple of inebriated teenagers. Ah, the great outdoors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFYN5bBZJ24&t=163s
Video: Capital Creative Showcase 2020
Since its foundation in 2013, Last Token Gaming has proudly been a part of the local game development scene in Sacramento, CA during its exponential growth. That mission only expanded in 2018, when we were recruited to help produce GPU the Show, a variety show that covers all aspects of gaming culture, including the local [...]
LTG Interview: Patrick Hickey Jr. – Gaming Journalist, Voice Actor, and Developer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVBecXzXxQQ&feature=youtu.be Marshall Garvey: Hello everyone, and welcome to another installment of Last Token Gaming’s interview series! Today we are joined by a very, very special guest, Patrick Hickey Jr. He’s a Brooklyn-based gaming journalist, yet “gaming journalist” is but one way he can be referred to. A renaissance man if ever there was one, Patrick [...]
LTG Hall of Fame Review: Cuphead (2017)
By Marshall Garvey A Devil of a Gamble, and One Hell of a Triumph Year in and year out, developers and players across the world hunger for the next big thing. When E3 convenes every June (well...almost every June), the hype machine kicks into overdrive for the next title that promises bigger worlds, crisper graphics, [...]
LTG Book Review: The SNES Omnibus, Vols. 1 & 2
By Marshall Garvey As video games continue to soar as a cultural juggernaut, now making more money as an industry than both the film and music ones combined, the need for books that aptly compile their history grows accordingly. Not just any kind of book, but more specifically big books, the kind of exhaustive tomes [...]
The Rise of Skywalker: What I Would’ve Done Differently
By Michael Ros SPOILER ALERT FOR THE RISE OF SKYWALKER. READ AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION. First off, let me preface this by saying that I know this film had so much stacked against it. Carrie Fisher’s tragic passing created an impossible hurdle that, if handled wrong, would really cripple the film. Fan expectations were [...]
LTG Halloween Review: “Man of Medan” (2019)
By Marshall Garvey In 2015, UK developer Supermassive Games added a pinnacle chapter to the survival horror genre with their first foray into it, Until Dawn. The game’s story of a group of attractive teenagers isolating themselves in a remote lodge to mark the anniversary of a friend’s death seemed like one unbecoming of a [...]
A Journey to 1001%
By Isaac Smith When I picked up The Binding of Isaac, the first expansion, The Wrath of the Lamb, had just come out. I was vaguely aware of the game’s completionist achievement, “Real Platinum God”, but had no idea what it entailed or how to get it. I was a noob, and I died [...]