Category: Reviews
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Torchlight 2
While ostensibly a review of Torchlight 2, I can’t write about this game without addressing the elephant Diablo 3, so I might as well start with that. But I can’t start with that without starting with Diablo 1.
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Albums Tied To Games #1: I Get Wet and Black
Every once in awhile, an album or band becomes so closely connected to a specific game that the two are almost inseparable for me. This series will hopefully document some of these entirely personal connections.
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Blue Stinger (Dreamcast)
Blue Stinger is known for really getting the shaft. It was a western launch title for the Dreamcast that every review ended with, “Wait for Resident Evil: Code Veronica.” To be fair the western Dreamcast launch was a pile of quality titles and set something of an high standard. Now there are 10+ years of…
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Final Fantasy XIII Almost Works…Almost
God help me, I think I almost liked Final Fantasy XIII. Almost. I finished it, which is more than I can say for any other Final Fantasy game with a number in the title.
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No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise and The Empty Feeling
Killer 7 is stylish. It has so much style that style becomes its substance. It was polarizing.
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Fukubukuro 2010 #1 Deathsmiles GOTY 2010
PREFACE Way back in October [2010], I had plans to write my own Fukubukuro, because I would read one if one existed regardless of who wrote it. Life and Laziness intervened and now it is May 2011.
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Fukubukuro 2010 #5 DOG DAYS
Author’s Note: Every year internet games journalism outcast Tim Rogers released a Fukubukuro of articles about his year with video games. Eventually he stopped writing them. I enjoyed them a lot.
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Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest Needs To Be Hidden From Sight
My parents didn’t buy me a lot of videogames. This is no slight against them at all, since I know they both would have loved to be able to.
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Gran Turismo Is a Tool to Deal with Being Alone
This isn’t a review at all. If anything, it’s probably a long explanation of why reviewing Gran Tursimo games separate from my own history might just be impossible.
Hinge Problems 