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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.ย The essentials – rice, perhaps onions, and a spice like saffron or turmeric doubling as a coloring agent – mostly do not.ย Its partners in crime could be sweet or savory, a curry or a meat, a revolving door to other worlds of morphing flavors.ย 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.ย He had the ability to pick up anything with six strings and put your jaw on the floor within 20 seconds.ย Like clockwork, as I visited every Wednesday at 6:30 after dinner, he’d improvise… (Cont.)
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You had to be there. Almost a decade ago, on a dead-man-walking console, no one was expecting the most fun shooter of modern times. That it was created by a… (Cont.)
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Every time I sit down to write about Tears of the Kingdom, the game either subtly morphs on me, or my opinion shifts from a new discovery. It’s a maddening… (Cont.)
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Once in awhile, a game comes along that provides you with an adventure that you didn’t necessarily want, but needed. It isn’t so much a breath of fresh air, nor… (Cont.)
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It didn’t have to be this way. Not really. Even with dozens of bad decisions that drove the whole enterprise into the ditch, there still could have been something to… (Cont.)
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In Kurt Vonnegut’s “Cat’s Cradle,” the semi-satirical religion of Bokonism hits a bit too close to the bone. Vonnegut invented words to encapsulate terms and situations, much in the way… (Cont.)
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Being mostly a Nintendo gamer, it’s been an odd time, watching the Switch’s success get put into overdrive-on-Pixie-Sticks-and-amphetamines through the pandemic. It’s been a sort of heat-check for Kyoto –… (Cont.)
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Handing out winners and losers for E3 seems like an antiquated idea. But…when Nintendo brings Zelda, an exclusive Atlus JRPG, two Advance War remakes, and one of the great missing… (Cont.)
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It’s easy to take this all for granted. Here we are, in 2021, with arguably the most Japanese videogame series in the industry taking a victory lap on Nintendo hardware… (Cont.)
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You don’t need a yearly retrospective, do you? I’m not here to write one. 2020 has been a malignant, joy-sucking farce for pretty much everyone. It’s been a slog that… (Cont.)
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It doesn’t take rose-colored glasses to see that Final Fantasy VII stands up. (Cont.)
