What We’re Playing This Week – Backlog Game Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5ErCf345BQ Jake Rushing – Pokémon Silver (Gameboy/Game Boy Color) This week, I’ll just play Pokémon Silver. I’m  just past the halfway point since I beat the Elite Four for the first time and I just arrived at Kanto. Before I got to the Elite Four, I managed to evolve my Horsea to Seadra, and to […]

War Never Changes – FallOut 4 Review

Release Date: November 10, 2015 Rated: T for Teen Publisher: Bethesda Game Studios Developer: Bethesda Softworks Platform: Xbox One, Playstation 4, PC Completion time: 3 days, 5 hours and 20 minutes aka 77 hours and 20 minutes. FallOut 3 had a bevy of expectations lobbied against it before its eventual release. Fans of the franchise had been […]

What We’re Playing This Week – Easter Edition

From all of us to you, Happy Easter Everyone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EF92j3g1pE Jake Rushing – Pokémon Silver (Game boy), Pokken Tournament (Wii U), Metroid 2 Return of Samus (Gameboy): This week, I’ll continue to play Pokémon Silver. As I’m trying to find a way to get through the game as quickly as I can so I could […]

Last Token Gaming Hall of Fame Review – Mega Man X (1993)

Developer: Capcom Publisher: Capcom, Nintendo, Majesco Entertainment Initial Release Date: January 1994 (U.S. release) Initial Platform: Super Nintendo Rated: E for Everyone Lets go back to the 90s, during where SNES is somewhat new and thriving. After seeing the success of the Mega Man series for NES, Capcom decided to take advantage of the advanced […]

What We’re Playing This Week – Wandering Edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR01YdFtWFI&feature=iv&src_vid=9yDZM0diiYc&annotation_id=annotation_901570579 Isaac: I’m finishing up Stardew Valley! I gotta say, it’s a fabulous game. It has its flaws here and there, but as many of you saw in my review, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I’m moving on to Factorio, a game about automation and industry. It’s… really, really addictive. It’s wickedly complex, often unforgiving, and […]

Backlog Review: Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble

By Jake Rushing Developer: RARE Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: November 1st, 1996 Platform: Super Nintendo, Game Boy Advance, Wii, Wii U Rated: E for Everyone After Nintendo 64 was released to the store shelves, Rare had already finished the third installment of the Donkey Kong Country series, and the game got released over 4 months […]

Distraction, Memories and Escape – Why Games Like Firewatch and That Dragon, Cancer are Significant

I can’t recall the amount of times I’ve been asked for advice, or how each conversation begins and ends. However, I can remember the themes, motifs, and the glimmer of hope that somehow I’ve helped. I could tell you that each conversation started differently, but end almost at the same point: don’t try to escape […]

Tom Clancy’s The Division Beta Impressions

*Beta was played on the Xbox One Open world games have always been an anomaly for me. There’s always a sense of a disconnect between what the developers want to do versus what is accomplished as a final result. Each game attempts to build a living breathing world through various ways; the open, expansive maps, […]

What We’re Playing This Week – Valentine’s Edition

Terry Randolph – Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 and 3 (Steam/PC), Gears of War: Ultimate Edition (Xbox One), FallOut 4 (Xbox One), Danganronpa (PS Vita) – I know that’s a lot of games to take on for one week, and it looks like I haven’t been making any progress (the list is pretty identical to […]

What We’re Playing This Week – End of January Edition

By the Last Token Gaming Staff Jake – Yoshi’s Island (SNES) – I’m going to play Yoshi’s Island for the sake of playing my entire backlog of SNES games. And for the sake of reliving my childhood that I had lived. When I want to take a break from playing retro games, I plan on continuing […]