Update: Back from the dead, metaphorically

Kept you waiting, huh? It’s always been a hassle for me to start back up after a long hiatus, so my apologies for taking so long. That said, the Electric Retrospective blog is back in business. For those new to the site, I’m Sean, and I write painfully long articles with cheesy pun titles. Between […]

Newspaper jumps the gun on Pokemon Sword and Shield article

Pokemon Sword and Shield mark the beginning of the eighth Pokemon generation, but fans are equally excited for the subsequent release of Pokemon Gun- or they would be, if Pokemon Gun was a real game. Twitter user @cin_ceja noticed an odd mistake when their local newspaper, La voz de Michoacan, released an article about Pokemon […]

Reggie Fils-Aime retires from Nintendo of America

Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, will retire in April after 15 years with the company. Fils-Aime took the world by storm during Nintendo’s 2004 E3 press conference with his bold personality. This personality is best exemplified by the numerous memes he spawned, ranging from his famous “my body is ready” quote during the […]

Yacht Club Games delays King of Cards, and that’s ok

As recurring viewers of Electric Retrospective are aware, nothing makes for a story quite like Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, the subject of ongoing coverage in the Shovel Knight Retrospective series of articles. The series was, before last night, planned to wrap up by the end of May with articles about the upcoming updates, including the […]

Activision opens refund program for Guitar Hero Live

Having shuttered one of its major features, Activision is allowing customers who purchased Guitar Hero Live on or after December 1, 2017, a voluntary refund program. Guitar Hero Live, a last stand for the dead genre of plastic instrument rhythm games, offered an online mode called Guitar Hero TV, which streamed music from channels that […]

Skybound Games finishes Telltale’s work on The Walking Dead: The Final Season

Following the closure of adventure game developer Telltale Games, the game adaptation of The Walking Dead will finish its final season on March 26. As reported in the Electric Retrospective October column, Telltale suddenly announced it would close its doors, leaving employees without severance pay and only giving them half an hour to pack up […]

Review: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate knocks it out of the park

(NOTE: By sheer coincidence, the day this review is released just so happens to be the day Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was updated to version 2.0, including the addition of Piranha Plant as a playable character for early purchasers before being made available to later customers on a later date. The content of this review […]

Update: Another winter, another hiatus

EDIT 1/8/19: Due to unfortunate and uncontrollable circumstances over the last few weeks, the Smash Ultimate review, and by extension, the return of the blog, will be postponed until January 29. Apologies for the delay. Though it may not be much compensation, the January column in the ECHO newspaper, a review of interactive film Black […]

Game Freak must learn what does and doesn’t work from Pokemon Let’s Go

As stated in the November column that reviewed it, Pokemon Let’s Go! Pikachu and Let’s Go! Eevee aren’t up to the franchise’s standards, but even if the games aren’t worth returning to as a player, they’re certainly worth returning to from an analytical standpoint. Considering how many drastic and divisive changes it made to the […]

Breath of the Wild’s Zelda timeline placement to remain a mystery

Since the Hyrule Historia’s release in 2011, the Zelda series has dealt with an increasingly baffling timeline and placing each game chronologically, but the most recent Zelda title, Breath of the Wild, may signal the end of this confusing mess. The Zelda timeline features various incarnations of Link and Zelda fighting incarnations of Ganondorf, and […]