Tag: Review
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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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…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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A Gun That Never Misses
Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon story spoilers ahead. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. For all intents and purposes, Rubicon III – the setting of Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon – is a dead planet orbiting the star of a dead system. A half-century before we arrive and the events of the game…
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Loved and Lost
I think there’s value in telling stories similar to Maquette, where relationships fall apart and don’t get put back together. But I don’t really think this game gets there.
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Year of Games #10.5: Some things I’ve played but not finished
a few games and an announcement.
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Year of Games #9: Blanc
The best way to approach Blanc is with low expectations and a friend to play with.
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Year of Games #7: Yakuza 5 Remastered
Yakuza 5’s dogged earnestness and tender moments ultimately won me over.
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Hi-Fi RUSH is the Best ‘Mid’ Game of 2023 So Far
I’ll tell you what wasn’t on anyone’s radar: a colorful, cartoonish Shinji Mikami-produced rhythm action game set to a soundtrack of Nine Inch Nails, Number Girl and The Black Keys with obscenely high production and animation values and some really funny gags. And yet,