The Pixels

Elemental Video Game Critiques

Simulation

6 min read

Silent Hope combines the farm sim and dungeon crawler with a CRPG cast under a JRPG aesthetic, a change of pace from Marvelous’ Rune Factory.

15 min read

Running an item shop is harder than most games would have you believe, especially when you’re a young girl with no business experience. In this review, The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage takes a look at what we can learn from this sweet animesque business sim about friendship, adventure, and hardcore capitalism.

17 min read

With Gordon Ramsay-like culinary expertise and barely concealed existential rage, the Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage takes a peek at Overcooked! 2, which may or may not be as good as the first one.

16 min read

Is Overcooked a fun couch co-op experience about the joy of creating delicious meals, or a treatise on the inevitable descent of all things into chaos? The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage says: why not both?

9 min read

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

17 min read

“Looking for an oasis on earth? You fool! Earth is already an oasis in the space!”
-Mehmet Murat ildan

20 min read

“He always thought of the sea as ‘la mar’ which is what people call her in Spanish when they love her. Sometimes those who love her say bad things of her but they are always said as though she were a woman. Some of the younger fishermen… spoke of her as ‘el mar’ which is masculine. They spoke of her as a contestant or a place or even an enemy. But the old man always thought of her as feminine and as something that gave or withheld great favours, and if she did wild or wicked things it was because she could not help them. The moon affects her as it does a woman, he thought.”
-Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

12 min read

“Americans… are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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