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Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen
I expected this game to be a lot bigger than it actually was. I know people who have put 100+ hours into it, and the size of the map suggests that’s entirely justifiable. The map is deceiving, though....
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Little King’s Story
I’m trying to make the best of a bad port. I really am. But Little King’s Story on Steam is troubled by all kinds of issues, from wonky controller dead zones to the sound cutting out to the game...
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Submerged
I can’t say much about this game without spoiling the ending, so reader beware. And, frankly, it’s the disappointing ending that’s got me so riled up. The actual gameplay is pretty straightforward and...
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Manual Samuel
I’m annoyed by the potential that’s been squandered here. The game starts out with Samuel getting smacked so hard in the head by his girlfriend that he has to start doing everything manually. What a...
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Stardew Valley
I’ve put so much time into past Harvest Moon games and even Harvest Moon clones that you’d think I wouldn’t need to raise a digital cow ever again. But here we are, 30 hours into yet another farming...
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Enslaved: Odyssey to the West
I was mostly interested in Enslaved because of its loose correlation to the Chinese fable, Journey to the West, but the similarities are very loose. Other than the idea of one character forcing...
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Skylar & Plux: Adventure On Clover Island
Steam has really needed some 3D platformers to fill that Nintendo void. Plenty of indie developers have attempted 3D platformers before, but I know the genre is hard to pull off correctly, and most of...
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X-Morph: Defense
I love tower defense games that also bring in some other gameplay type, and X-Morph: Defense does this incredibly well. It’s as much a twin-stick shooter as it is a tower defense game. Similar to...
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Grow Up
I really liked the first Grow Home game. It was such an oddly charming experience. But it’s also the kind of experience that would be hard to “sequelize.” I don’t know where you could logically take...
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Yooka-Laylee
Yooka-Laylee is a wonderful tribute to the 3D platformers of the N64 era. In fact, if you didn’t know that Yooka-Laylee was made by former Rare developers, it would be easy to call it a shameless...
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Nine Parchments
Nine Parchments answers the age-old question, “What would happen if the developers of Trine made Magicka?” We’ve all wondered that, right? Not surprisingly, the end result is basically the same...
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Sonic Generations
Allowing the original-style Sonic to stand next to modern-day Sonic just shows how ugly the newer, lanky character designs are. Even in 3D, the shorter, chubbier Sonic looks so much nicer. Character...
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Super Mario Odyssey
I wasn’t planning to buy a Switch, but it’s hard to say no to flagship games like Super Mario Odyssey. No one knows how to make a good 3D platformer quite like Nintendo, and Odyssey may be their best...
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Fire Emblem Warriors
Of all the Warriors-style games I’ve played (One Piece, Hyrule, Orochi), this one was probably the weakest. A big part of that is because I’m, frankly, not much of a Fire Emblem fan. But you gotta...
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Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Well, this was an unlikely combination. Not only did the world not need a Super Mario / Raving Rabbids crossover, but you would have never guessed that either franchise would become a turn-based...
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A Hat in Time
I frequently went from loving this game to hating it. The thing is, A Hat in Time is a fantastic 3D platformer… when it’s actually trying to be a 3D platformer. But more often than not, you get caught...
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Xenoblade Chronicles 2
I feel like a bit of a Xenoblade Chronicles apologist in that I’ve liked all of the games so far even when a lot of friends and family haven’t been able to get into them. The thing about these...
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Fortified
I’ve seen a lot of other reviews compare Fortified to Orcs Must Die as if the developers should be ashamed of themselves for not having a more original idea. Here’s the thing, though: the world can’t...
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McDROID
The difficulty of this game is an interesting story. Apparently the developer, after the game had already been released for a while, decided that “normal” was too easy after all and made a new...
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Kirby Star Allies
Kirby Star Allies looked like it’d be a return to form for the pink puff, much like the Wii’s very excellent Return to Dreamland. The Wii entry is still the better game, though, for a few reasons. In...
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