Timothy Monbleau

Guess I'll do an introduction too. Hi, I'm Tim and I write about video games! I was an editor for Destructoid, and nowadays you can catch my words on PC Gamer and Kotaku. If you enjoy celebrating the ways games make us laugh, cry, or just entertain us, you might like my work! Highlights are below.

Trying desperately hard to control my giggles in the middle of this waiting room right now.

PSA about this, I just spent an afternoon with Costco canceling my orders online for a PSN card pack. Went in store and was fine, mine had plenty of PSN and only a couple eShop left (YMMV of course). Probably safe to assume Costco’s getting flooded with people wanting a discount on GTA6.

If I’ve started and not finished Kingdom Hearts 2 five times in my life, do I buy it again and hope that sixth time’s a charm #blutoid

Google’s AI summary thinks Gades saying “THIS is what I would call frue destruction!” is from Lufia II when it is in fact from Lufia: The Legend Returns for the Game Boy. So much knowledge at its disposal and it can’t even pretend to be a Lufia fan accurately, just absolutely pathetic. #blutoid

Sure let’s add another all-timer SNES RPG to 2027. Lufia 2’s still got some of the absolute best dungeon design to this day. #blutoid

As a thank you for the tariff refunds I have received*, I am offering your outlet a $10 discount on my review of Terranigma on Steam. Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. *The tariff refunds I have received do not exist. #blutoid

Pouring a cold one for the Final Fantasy-ified version of Touch It :(

Oh hell yes. An absolute icon from Destuctoid, and I can tell you firsthand he's a fantastic editor too. Congrats @krismoyse.bsky.social!

AI hallucination of the day: Typed the name of a bar with a basic name into Google, AI summary says "there is no bar called [name] in [town]" despite the page for said bar appearing *right alongside it*. It could've just spat the dictionary definition of the name, but it worked so hard to be wrong!

Seeing the responses to this drives home how rural the rural small town I grew up in was. Weekends were, at best, jumping off cliffs into water and rolling down sandpits if you didn’t want to sneak mom’s vodka underneath the bridge. Admittedly, still a step up from doomscrolling in your room.

Decided to not apply to a job today because one of the requirements is "high tolerance for ambiguity" and I'm sitting here clenching my fists screaming "WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN!?!?"

It is kinda amazing how people writing about video games will spend every waking hour on the job for peanuts in return and somehow there just isn’t any money in the budget for them.

Watching TV from a quarter of a century ago and I still can’t escape it. #blutoid

Just catching up on announcements now, but Final Fantasy Brave Exvius is SUCH a good choice for the next gacha-to-console conversion. It was already a classic Final Fantasy in spirit, and now the story gets to be properly immortalized in the FF canon. Really high hopes for this.

You can take my gun from me when my hands are as cold and dead as Mega Man Legends 3

Gonna pop my head up to let you all know I have a review of Mina The Hollower coming soon. Life hasn't exactly gotten easier, so I wasn't able to finish in time for the embargo. But rest assured that Mr. "Link's Awakening is the best Zelda" has some thoughts about this. #blutoid

I want to imagine a world where yesterday's Star Fox direct was actually a shot-for-shot recreation of this cinematic masterpiece. #blutoid

Sure, I never played Final Fantasy XI, but check out this list of things I’ve learned about it just from its collaborations with other Final Fantasy games. 1: Shantotto is small and has a funny laugh

Had a dungeon run with an ace of a new healer in FFXIV. I popped Living Dead on a big pull, they let me die so I could full heal, and after they complimented me on the strategy. Couldn’t say thank you without a keyboard, but made me think about how you can make someone’s night with a few nice words.

i love the final fantasy xiv ost, my favorite tracks are Final Battle (Final Fantasy V) and Final Battle (Final Fantasy V)

No one asked for this but you're getting it anyway #blutoid

If anyone is questioning Andrea’s credentials to talk about this video game, I can say from experience as a “since ARR player” that none of you want to go toe-to-toe with her over how much time you’ve invested into this MMO.

Okay so the Evolved mode details do have me properly hyped, genuinely looking forward to Evercold now.

And yeah this is a big thing. With Shadowbringers added, the trial has caught up with where everyone I know IRL has dropped off. I’d love to see some old friends back in the game and this would almost certainly do it.