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The best game I played in 2018 was the best game I played most other years.
The dish changes, depending on where you go. The essentials – rice, perhaps onions, and a spice like saffron or turmeric doubling as a coloring agent – mostly do not. Its partners in crime could be sweet or savory, a curry or a meat, a revolving door to other worlds of morphing flavors. But I… (Cont.)
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Monolith Soft is figuring it out the hard way.
I once took lessons from a great musician, in my journey to learning how to play a guitar worth a damn. He had the ability to pick up anything with six strings and put your jaw on the floor within 20 seconds. Like clockwork, as I visited every Wednesday at 6:30 after dinner, he’d improvise… (Cont.)
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Never meet your heroes. I had avoided it, but not because I had thought it would let me down. No, I knew Symphony of the Night would be interesting. Games… (Cont.)
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There you are, sitting at the edge of a cliff, the cherry blossoms freshly in bloom. You should know – you brought them back to life. The mountainous terrain is… (Cont.)
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You know how this works. You grab from both sides, then gently tug at the bag. Its previously sealed top opens like the pursed lips of some drunk, whose breath… (Cont.)
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“Metroidvania” is a bit of a misguided portmanteau. Distill the essence, and you fundamentally have “Super Metroid, but (fill in the blank).” -Symphony of the Night is “Super Metroid, but… (Cont.)
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Two years ago, I met a friend. It was kind of surreal. I’d known them for years up to that point, but it’s always a little bit of a jolt… (Cont.)
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Gaming gave me a sedative for loneliness during my youth, keeping me from ever getting desperate enough to seek normal friendships and ask girls out on dates. The few times… (Cont.)
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Hello everyone, We don’t know if you know, but Discord is a revelation for gamers. This writer didn’t know this himself, until he got curious about the Discord communities for… (Cont.)
