Tag: video games

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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Spooktober 2025: Arresting Arachnids

In a world of gaming filled with zombies, aliens, orcs, assassins, and mutated monsters, it may seem that there’s not much room left for the worst enemy of them all… …SPIDERS. While I personally find skeletons to be the most unsettling type of enemy throughout entertainment, spiders take a very close second. Oh, I’m fine…

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Spooktober: Animal Crossing’s Tarantula and Scorpion Islands

The last game you’d expect to be discussed during Spooktober is most assuredly the cute and relaxing life sim, Animal Crossing.  After all, what could possibly be scary about decorating your house or meeting new animal friends?  Well, ever since the franchise’s debut on the Nintendo GameCube, there has been one, no, make that two…

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