Berserk Boy, released earlier this year, is a game I enjoyed moment to moment, but I wish I enjoyed it more. As it stands, it's overall a pretty good game that I hope did well enough to warrant a sequel to refine its ideas further,…
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Here's a series of informal posts I made on Cohost as I was playing Alan Wake 2, a game I ended up really adoring after some ups and downs in the early hours, as well as the games that led up to it. These were…
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This was originally a response to a question on Tumblr. Anonymous asked: Was rereading your FFXVI article the other day and I got curious to know why you don’t like Bravely Default and Octopath. I agree that Octopath is a tedious dumpster fire, but I…
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This past year I kept a running list of everything I watched, every game I finished, every new album I listened to, etc., and wrote one-paragraph blurbs with my thoughts on every single one. Please enjoy this journey through everything I liked, or didn’t like,…
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A few years ago I did a thread on Twitter about Kirby music I love that highlights the variety of the series' soundtracks. Songs that are a far cry from the jolly, upbeat standards that non-fans know from smash like Green Greens and Gourmet Race,…
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This was originally posted on Tumblr to my Spider-Man blog, Thanks Steve Ditko. I beat the main story of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and have enjoyed my time with the game overall! I want to talk about spoilers and things that I liked and disliked in the…
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I took the announcement of the new Steam Deck OLED as a sign that maybe it was time for me to get one. So I did. I doubted how much I really NEEDED one of these, considering I'm a homebody indie dev who doesn't need…
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I've been playing Mario Wonder and it is, of course, an absolutely masterful platformer, as expected. It's phenomenal. I'm having a blast with it. BUT... those talking flowers......... They definitely don't ruin the experience, and they have some good jokes here and there (which is…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. Superstars is out! And guess what? It’s good! It’s a worthy new entry in the series, and I mostly like it. Mostly. Except for the handful of parts I don’t. As usual, allow me to…
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This was originally posted to Thanks Ken Penders on Tumblr. So I wrote a whole long thing about Amy’s tarot cards, but what about, you know… the rest of the Sonic Frontiers DLC? The new alternate story route, the hours of new gameplay, all that?…
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This was originally posted as a response to a question on Tumblr. fanofsmbx asked: I saw in your FFXVI review that you'd played Tears of the Kingdom. What were your thoughts on Zelda's role in the game and story? It was okay. Generally, I think…
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A few thoughts on Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective that I posted on Cohost while playing the remaster, now preserved here on this blog. Getting acquainted with the greatest video game character of all time. (I played the first chapter of Ghost Trick way back when it was…
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Final Fantasy XVI is an easy game to make assumptions about. From the moment it was unveiled, many worried that it would be overly bleak and nihilistic in a series that’s usually anything but. That it would use its newfound ability to more directly depict…
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This was originally an informal post that sort of blew up on Cohost, in which I used the discourse surrounding the open world Zeldas as an example of something that irks me in video game criticism. I've been thinking a lot lately about game design…
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If you paid attention to video game discourse in the ’00s, you may remember a common narrative about Mega Man. The early sidescrollers had been rightfully enshrined as all-time classics, but there was also this weird reboot they did on the Game Boy Advance called…
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This was originally a response to a question on Tumblr. I played about ten hours of Octopath Traveler - everyone’s first chapters and one character’s second chapter - and it was a game that drove me a little insane. First and foremost was the writing,…
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It‘s a miracle that Sonic Frontiers is as good as it is. I don’t mean that I’m shocked a 3D Sonic game is fun. I like 3D Sonic games. As readers of my blog Thanks Ken Penders know, I’m a huge fan of the franchise,…
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Metroid freakin’ Dread!!!! This will contain spoilers. The TL;DR version is that I loved it, and while it’s always gonna be hard to top Super I’d rank it as my second favorite game in the 2D series, right ahead of Fusion. It’s extremely good. Okay,…
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In hindsight, the game that introduced me to the Kirby series was kind of a weird one.
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