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Elemental Video Game Critiques

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6 min read

Ys Origin is familiar but reliable and really, need anyone ask for more from a JRPG honoring long and rich series traditions?

8 min read

Innovation is a mere buzzword. Changes happen in a microcosm. Mortal Shell enjoyably drives that point home, like a sword in a monster’s gut.

13 min read

Ghost of Tsushima. Does it attack with honour? Or is its blade dull? — The Regional Exclusive Mage answers all, without the aid of any more terrible haiku.

6 min read

Something weird is growing on Nintendo Switch and it’s Atomicrops, the hideously fun lovechild of farming sims and rogue-lites, with bullet hell for flavor.

6 min read

Sakura Wars skirts the line between visual novel and mech combat, and while some continue to ask “what is a game?”, fans of visual novels will eat this up.

13 min read

John Wick Hex is here to give you your Keanu-Reeves-in-a-video-game fix ahead of Cyberpunk, but is the game a blessing or a curse?

9 min read

Despite my multiple frustrations, countless deaths, and whispered curses every time Mike took forever to turn around, StarTropics is a game I’m glad I stuck out to the end.

9 min read

Dogs kind of default to making friends unless provoked. Cats seem to default to making enemies unless convinced otherwise.
-Perry Elisabeth Kirkpatrick

37 min read

“Elysium is a perfect world, created by the Ancients thousands of years ago. A world of eternal youth… a world without disease, hunger or war.” -Yuna, Mega Man Legends 2

23 min read

Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a single truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
-Miguel Syjuco

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