Tag: gaming

Kind and Courageous, The Plucky Squire Delivers

To say I was looking forward to playing The Plucky Squire after it was first announced in 2022 is an understatement. With modest promises of a 2023 release that became a late 2024 release, I became a little obsessed with following any crumbs of news about it, just hoping that this little game with big…

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I Can’t Stop Playing Balatro

A few weeks ago, I picked up Balatro on the recommendation of a friend. It looked interesting enough thanks to its throwback visual style and seemingly simplistic gameplay loop. But I still figured that I wouldn’t actually end up spending a ton of time on it. After all, it was just a poker simulator with…

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The Talos Principle 2: Better, Bigger, Brilliant

SPOILERS from the get-go, while my complaints about The Talos Principle 2 are mostly minimal, when I discovered late in the game that I could not return to New Jerusalem, essentially the game’s “home base,” before reaching the endgame, I felt decidedly sour. If something or someone had indicated a point of no return earlier,…

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard First Impressions

While I count the Dragon Age games among my most favorite RPGs of all time now, it wasn’t always like that. My first playthrough of Dragon Age: Origins was distracted, at best. I had a false start with Inquisition, and I held the second game in contempt for far longer than was warranted. While I…

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Walking the Streets of Silent Hill 2-A First-Timer’s Experience

This year’s Spooktober has already come and gone, but I’m not ready to leave the spooky season behind just yet. See, the horror genre got a very important entry this month with the release of Bloober Team’s Silent Hill 2 remake. The original Silent Hill 2 is the quintes- sential horror game, so a new…

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The Horror that Surrounds: The Dead City Lives

Post-apocalyptic visions are a dime a dozen in games these days. Players regularly travel through forgotten, decrepit scenes that live on in the wake of some terrible disaster. That could be a war, a pandemic, a case of technology gone berserk, or something else entirely. The point is that these spaces are shrouded by more…

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