I’m Santiago Zapata, better known online as slashie, a Software Engineer and Independent Game Developer and from Medellín, Colombia.

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Category: Let’s Play

  • Prince of Persia – Dreams of Speedrunning

    Some time ago, I started following Jordan Mechner (creator of the original Prince of Persia games) in Twitter. I think that’s how I found out about his amazing book, Replay, which I already made an unboxing video about some time ago. Well, some weeks ago he decided to organize a…

  • The Rogue – Prince of Persia

    One of the highlights of the so-called Triple-I Initiative event which happened last April 10th, was a new Prince of Persia game that came out of the blue; developed by Evil Empire, the people behind Dead Cells: Return to Castlevania, I was mostly attracted to its visual style and procedural…

  • Final Fantasy VII Demo

    Midgar’s Sector 1 Mako Reactor is now non-operational. The demo was pretty awesome… as an old school gamer I had issues with the camera control, and I’m still getting the hang of the battle system (I used the “Normal” one, a bit too frantic for my taste but still good,…

  • Shroud of the Avatar unboxing and comparison with Ultima III

    Finally, after waiting for many years, I got my physical copy of Shroud of the Avatar. So, I decided to record a short video of unboxing it, while comparing it with a classic Ultima game.

  • Let’s play Shroud of the Avatar – Part 1

    So, I’ve decided to give the game a go – There’s been a lot of talk recently about it, and I think it’s about time I fire it and see how it’s currently shaping… after some sessions I’ll give my thoughts about it. Read on to the First Part  

  • My PokémonGo quest #13

    After the events on November things are a bit boring again… the changes that introduced daily “appointment” mechanics for captures and pokestops have kept me playing in order for not breaking the daily streaks, but the lack of rare catches and the monotony of the game leave only my completionist…

  • My Pokemon Go Quest, Update 12

    It’s been over a month since the last update; for the most part it had been a booooring month with little to talk about… I was about to give up in my quest, however by the end of October and start of November things started getting interesting again…. The halloween event…

  • My Pokemon Go Quest – Update 11

    I’ve been posting this on my facebook profile, but I decided the blog would be a better place to chronicle this epic quest. But first, an introduction: I’ve been playing Pokemon Go. I’m not a hardcore player but I try to play as much as I can, it has led me…

  • Leonardo: The Inventor

    Back on 1996, “multimedia” computers appeared in my city. It was the SoundBlaster craze, and it was not easy to have one at home (specially if your family was not particularly rich). An aunt of mine used to take me to the local library, were they had set up a room with…

  • Slashing Dragon’s Ultima Ranking

    I decided to post my ranking on the Ultima Series games, all of these are my personal opinions. Hope you enjoy it! All images courtesy of The Ultima Codex. The main series Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness (1980) Exploration: A big fantasy world to explore (4 continents), mixed…