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YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #419

Up this week: Note: YouTube Highlights is taking a Thanksgiving break next week and will return on Friday, December 5th. Hope everyone has a great holiday full of fun, food, and gaming! Connect: wegameunited@gmail.comWatch: YouTube ~ Video BastionShop: Spreadshirt

The Outer Worlds 2 First Impressions

The Outer Worlds 2 opens with a beautiful scene from one of the in-game serials (think: movie shorts), and the visuals don’t ever let up. After making a character of one’s choosing, players are let loose in a stunning world that’s as bright and ever bigger than what was presented in the first game. Everything…

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Cozy Grove is Like Animal Crossing with a Plot

Cozy Grove is, to put it simply, kind of like Animal Crossing, but with a greater emphasis on story.  You play as a Spirit Scout and must help out the ghostly bears that inhabit the island by completing various fetch quests for them.  Along the way, you’ll feed your sentient campfire Flamey with logs to…

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Herdling is the Best Money I’ve Spent on a Game in a Long Time

Released earlier this year, Herdling, from Okomotive, is an adventure game unlike any other. In it, players take the reigns as young shepherd who finds and guides herd of “calicorns” — large, furry, sheep-like beasts – from the lowlands to the highlands, and beyond. The lone shepherd’s journey begins in a city with a magic…

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Theorizing Even More with the Newest FNAF 2 Movie Trailer

Just a month before its December 5th theatrical debut, another trailer for the Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 movie was released on November 5th, and let me tell you, I’m getting more and more excited by the day!  The movie is definitely going to be far more action-packed from what they’ve shown, and we also…

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Discovery Through Distraction

Last week saw the release of The Outer Worlds 2, and while I’m looking forward to diving into it soon, I’ve been playing Fallout 4…again. Alas, the call of the siren’s song (or, maybe that’s a settlement beacon) is strong sometimes! I didn’t go into a new playthrough with any grand designs, but I approached…

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Unravel 2’s Smooth Gameplay is Unravelled by a Weak Story

The original Unravel was a sweet and unique platformer where you play as a little creature named Yarny (made from yarn, as the name suggests) who can solve puzzles and traverse photo-realistic environments (spanning natural Swedish landscapes to industrial locations) using yarn.  You can swing from yarn, make bridges with yarn, and even make trampolines…

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