Angelo M. D'Argenio

Ever since the 1980s, no single company in the games industry has done a better job establishing iconic mascots than Nintendo. The studio has countless recognizable characters across multiple iconic franchises, with many spanning decades in the public eye. In a way, narrowing this list down to just 15 does Nintendo a disservice, such is the incredible amount of mascots the company has managed to create.

5 min read What’s the reason we play RPGs? Many people would say “the story” and that’s understandable. The RPG was one of the first genres to really focus on in-depth narrative in a time when all we had was sprites and white text on black backgrounds. But story is only half the RPG formula. The other half is system. Part of the fun with this genre is mashing mechanics together to see how high you can make your numbers go.

Chapter 2 of Toby Fox’s Undertale sequel, Deltarune, just dropped very suddenly and the internet exploded. As we said before, Undertale wouldn’t be Undertale, and thus Deltarune wouldn’t be Deltarune, without its fair share of secrets. Much like the Chapter 1 secret boss, Jevil, Chapter 2’s secret boss requires you to jump through a ton of hoops throughout your play through just to find him, though defeating him grants you significant rewards.