Tag: video games
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Year of Games #6: Goodbye World
Content warning for discussions of mental health, suicide Goodbye World, by Yo Fujii, first caught my attention during last year’s Day of the Devs press conference. It was one of a handful of games shown off during the conference’s small segment on indie games making their way from Japan to the rest of the world,…
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Time is Money: A Response to ‘Review Code’
In a rare bit of candor, a major digital culture website has deigned to pull back the curtain a little bit and show us in the audience the reasoning behind why it writes so many reviews that seem to score in the mid-to-high range, and why it tends not to write that many reviews on…
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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,
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Year of Games #4: Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII Reunion
It’s good, but maybe not essential.
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Year of Games #3: Waste Eater
Simultaneously a meditation on our own climate future, the deleterious labor we do to maintain society as it is, and a vision of hopefully better things to come, Waste Eater was a surprising experience.
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Year of Games #2: Folds of a Separation
Navigate the harsh maze of state control in this incredibly affective game from the makers of The Indifferent Wonder of an Edible Place.
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Year of Games #1: Stitch.
Slowly weave your way through increasingly more complex embroidery-themed puzzles in this relaxing Apple Arcade exclusive.
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Why does NORCO feel so familiar?
I’ve spent months struggling to express the way I resonated with NORCO’s writing.
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Review: Destiny 2: The Witch Queen
The Witch Queen is the best Destiny 2 has ever been. I feel nothing.