Tag: video games

Listmas 2024: Cary’s Favorite Teammates and Companions

Merry Listmas! In considering our first topic of the season – our bestest (or mostly so) buds in games – my mind immediately went to the most obvious place…BioWare. We’ve been traipsing around game worlds with teammates and companions by our sides for decades, but BioWare companions, or at least some of them, are second…

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Listmas 2024: The Duck’s Favorite Teammates

RPGs are typically known for their grand stories and complex characters.  Alongside turn-based fighting where allies and foes alike take turns slapping each other silly.  Ahem, considering these kinds of games usually give us a wide array of characters that we can choose to travel alongside us, we thought it would be a good idea…

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Listmas 2024: Gaming’s Best Buddies

At last the Christmas season has come again, and so has Listmas, one of our longest- running traditions here at Virtual Bastion! As Cary explained earlier this week, this year we’re looking at the best gifts in gaming: all the friends, allies and companions we’ve gotten to journey with over the years. As fun as…

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Another Year, Another Listmas!

Each year, when a chill sets in and the smell of hot chocolate wafts dreamily in the background, we know that Listmas isn’t far away. Of course, it also means that the end-of-year holidays are on the horizon; but it wouldn’t be the holidays in the blogosphere without Listmas! For over a decade, we’ve been…

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A Little to the Left is a Little Tedious

As part of one’s Nintendo Switch Online subscription, apparently free game trials are available, in which you have a limited time to play a game for free.  I just found this out recently when Nintendo emailed me about a game trial for a puzzle game called A Little to the Left.  I had about a…

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YouTube Highlights, Weekly Edition #371

Up this week: Note: YouTube Highlights will be on hiatus next week (Happy Thanksgiving!) and will return on Friday, December 6th. We hope you’ll join us again then! Connect: X/Twitter ~ Facebook ~ wegameunited@gmail.comWatch: YouTube ~ Video BastionShop: Spreadshirt

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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Ranking the Bosses from Donkey Kong Country 3

Donkey Kong Country 2 already had some perfectly memorable boss fights.  But the third game’s penchant for gimmicks meant the bosses tended to vary even more in their mechanics, from a snowball fight with a nightmarish snowman to feeding bugs to a giant sentient barrel until he burps himself off the stage.  Frankly, I found…

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