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Symphony of the Night is still the most ambitious game you’ll play this year.
Never meet your heroes. I had avoided it, but not because I had thought it would let me down.ย No, I knew Symphony of the Night would be interesting.ย Games of this stature don’t get their status by merely being decent.ย I was more afraid that I’d meet my hero, appreciate it on an academic… (Cont.)
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Okami can’t stop being Game of the Year
There you are, sitting at the edge of a cliff, the cherry blossoms freshly in bloom.ย You should know – you brought them back to life.ย The mountainous terrain is intermittently sharpened like a knife, then smoothed like a polished jewel; the wind above is less a line and more of a suggestion of where… (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.)
