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Lost Odyssey, It’s Not You, It’s Me

Technically speaking, there’s very little wrong with Lost Odyssey. While it has some negative aspects of a nearly twenty-year-old RPG, it’s a solid experience that’s extremely well-executed. The story is great, the soundtrack is amazing, the characters are convincing, and the game’s turn-based combat is sound. So why in the name of all that is…

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Analyst Reports 3rd Party Games are Seeing Greater Success on Switch 2

Well, so far things seem to be going well for Switch 2. Initial sales appear to be strong, press is largely positive and now at least one analyst says that it’s working well as a 3rd party platform. How true is this and what does “doing well” mean in this context? Read on we’ll discuss.

Rusty Rabbit: Demo Review

Rusty Rabbit is a Metroidvania about a grumpy old rabbit named Stamp who explores the ruins of Smokestack Mountain in his mech suit, Junkster, in search of even more, well, junk.  The demo takes roughly 30-45 minutes to complete, and in that time, you explore two industrial looking areas and meet another group of rust…

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Top 5: My “Deserted Island” 2D Platformers

No deserted island full of all the games and consoles imaginable would be complete without a few good, old-fashioned 2D platformers. Games in this staple genre combine action, adventure, and story without the need for complex battle mechanics, infinite skill trees, and inventory management. (Well…mostly.) These games are all about getting from point A to…

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Out Fishing Might Be the Next Big “Fishing Horror” Game

If I hadn’t played Dredge a couple of years ago, fishing and horror wouldn’t exactly strike me as a natural combination, much less one the works. Even so, it worked fantastically in that game. Dredge was pretty simple gameplay-wise, yet it managed to create real feelings of fear and even panic whenever I found myself…

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Expedition 33’s End Game is Awesome!

I feel like the endgame portion of an RPG is a really tough thing to nail down. It can be too short or overlong. It can be too easy or too difficult. It can also be too irrelevant to the main story or do nothing for the characters, serving mainly as just extra padding for…

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Pilo and the Holobook: Demo Review

Pilo and the Holobook is a casual adventure game where you catalog the universe by scanning everything you see into the Holobook and creating stickers of your finds.  The graphics are colorful and cartoonish, the characters seem charming, and the gameplay is…lacking.  The demo contains the game’s intro and one world, Vast Desert, and took…

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So, Summer Game Fest Happened, I Guess

For a very, very long time, the biggest event of the year was E3. Even after other events like Gamescom, TGS and things like Nintendo Directs emerged, E3 was pretty much still THE event of the year. E3 and the weeks leading up to it were absolutely packed with excitement, buzz and optimism as to…

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