January 2020 – Kaylriene

Shadowlands Wishlist Part 1: The Story

Since I’m on a roll with series posts this week (and I have a wrestling post coming later today to break that up!) I figured I’d start… Read more “Shadowlands Wishlist Part 1: The Story”

In the first two parts of this series, we talked about the ways in which I felt Battle for Azeroth fell flat – first from a story… Read more “Battle for Azeroth Review Part 3 – Historical Comparison and Context, Closing Remarks”

(Editor’s Note: This post is a Proustian diversion into huge longform posting. After an editing pass and little tightening up, it still sits at 9,329 words, including… Read more “Battle for Azeroth Review Part 2 – The Gameplay”

(There will be some spoilers in this post for the BfA story and all of the cinematics released, including the Ny’alotha raid-ender and the new Darkshore cutscene.… Read more “Battle for Azeroth In Review – Part 1: The Story”

I cannot warn you enough before this post, which has a very neutral title to avoid spoilers – THERE WILL BE SPOILERS IN THIS POST. Big, huge,… Read more “A Very (VERY) Spoiler-Heavy Analysis of the Ny’Alotha Cinematics”

My last few posts have been largely positive on the daily world content of WoW patch 8.3, Visions of N’Zoth, but there are some downsides to discuss.… Read more “Visions of N’Zoth Pre-Raid Content Review – Great Template, Very Rough Edges”

Patch 8.3’s repeatable content structure is one of the better elements of a patch this whole expansion. To start with, let me say this – yes, it… Read more “The Repeatable Content of Patch 8.3…is Good?”

Horrific Visions are a gameplay mechanism that attempts to please a lot of masters. It has solo gameplay, small group gameplay, simple objectives that reward skill, more… Read more “Horrific Visions – A Model for Gameplay but Not For Rewards”

Day one of a new patch is always an interesting sight. Logging in, I hadn’t read up too much on the actual quest chain that would unfold,… Read more “Day One of Visions of N’Zoth – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly”

Today, a mix of things came to light that add a ton of possible weight to the theory that Shadowlands, come hell or high water, is going… Read more “Some Potentially Good News – Shadowlands by September?”