Category: Review
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The No Escape review of the Jimquisition review of Dragon’s Dogma 2
This is a response to a review of a video game. It is not beef.
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Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth and the Art of Letting Go and Moving On
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is ambitious, emotionally-charged and deeply humanistic. It’s no surprise that it’s the perfect sendoff for Kazuma Kiryu, and a great reintroduction for Ichiban Kasuga.
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Return to Grace review: strangely graceless
It’s been a couple weeks since I rolled credits on Return to Grace, Creative Bytes Studios’ third game. It’s a nominal first-person adventure game where you play a future archaeologist on a suicide mission to Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, to make contact with a long-dormant, possibly dead artificial intelligence that once controlled the entire Solar…
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Thoughts on True Detective Night Country
“It’s always the same damn story with the same damn ending. So we told ourselves a different story, with a different ending.” Spoilers, naturally. So, I finished it. Like 3.2 million people, I watched the season finale of True Detective: Night Country. I’ve spent the last 36 hours hooting and hollering and I think I…
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Revenge and Faith in The Last of Us Part II
This article is a spiritual sequel to “Can You Pet The Dog?” over at Deep-Hell. As Deep-Hell did, we want to take this opportunity to remind you that we are able to bring contributors on through the generosity of readers like you. How much faith do you put in one person? It’s the first question…
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Twisters looks bad, and I’m upset
It’s the Super Bowl, and that means we’re being inundated by all sorts of commercials and trailers for stuff we didn’t know we needed. One such trailer is the one that just dropped for Twisters, the sequel to the 1996 Jan De Bont-directed, Michael Crichton-written natural disaster movie starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton and Cary…
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…And Now For The Rest of That Green Day Album (Saviors – Review)
Saviors is the Warning of the post-American Idiot era of GREEN DAY’s discography*.
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Review – The Pist “Is Risen” LP
Published by Ryvvolte Records, Havoc Records, Profane Existence, and Dismantled Records. Listen Here. To say this album was unexpected would be an understatement. The Pist was a hardcore punk band from Waterbury, CT from 1992 to 1996. Led by Al “Pist” Ouimet, The Pist put out a demo, a couple of singles and EPs, and…
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Have An Unacceptably Long Post Analyzing Green Day’s New Singles That I Wrote Instead Of Doing Work
As I slowly “retvrn” to writing more seriously about the music I like in addition to writing about games and politics and so on, it occurs to me that so far I’ve really just scratched the surface of my tastes or even really examined why it is that I like what I do. I grew…
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Song of the Year: SAMIAM, “Lake Speed”
Hey, I know I said I was taking a break from writing for a while, but before I go: “Lake Speed,” off the album Stowaway by East Bay pop-punk veterans Samiam, is my favorite song of the year. In the context of the rest of the album, it’s “just” an opener, a way to bring…