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Review – Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream
Miis were once a pillar of Nintendo’s marketing and appeal. With their bulbous heads, simple faces, and minimalist designs, these avatars defined the Nintendo Wii generation. They appeared in a wide array of mostly casual games, got added to the Smash lineup, and were copied by Nintendo’s competitors. For half a decade, Miis were mostly a novelty, toiling around in…
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Early Access Review – Car Park Capital
Everyone loves cars. Or, at least, they will once they have no choice. Once you bulldoze all the inner-city apartments and force people out into the suburbs and if they even want to get groceries they need to drive 20km. I'm talking about Car Park Capital, by the way. Don't actually do this.
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Demo Dive – Half Grip
What are you doing with your hand right now? No. Stop it. You need to put that hand on the demo of Half Grip. Hear me out: you drive a car using your mouse for everything your arms would do. So, you have to steer, shift gears, and shoot at other drivers with nothing but your mouse pointer. Effectively, you…
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Review – Odd Town
I’ve said before that I’m a sucker for big open worlds, but I should probably just say that I love all open worlds. Bigger isn’t always better, so something like Chulip’s fragmented small town is fab in my books. Sometimes the setting is a character in itself, and getting intimate with it is gratifying. Odd Town is an impressive little…
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Review – Pikmin 4
It's time to gather trash with the help of an invasive species. This time, as efficiently as possible. Also there's also a dog. That's all you need to know. It's Pikmin 4, the newest entry in Nintendo's ecological disaster franchise.
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Review – Tostchu
The horror of food service continues, this time in Turkey. Tostchu has you stewing in the dark and creepy atmosphere while serving pressed sandwiches. Can you cooking skills save you?
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Review – Happy’s Humble Burger Cult
Be careful what you wish for. I wished for a multiplayer offshoot of Happy's Humble Burger Farm. That was before I completely lost my taste for online horror games. Fortunately, that's not all there is to Happy's Humble Burger Cult.
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Review – Agent 64: Spies Never Die
It's like Goldeneye never left us! Sort of. Agent 64: Spies Never Die wears the skin of Rare's venerable N64 classic, but that leaves it some big shoes to fill. Can any game hope to even compare?
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Review – Meat Grinder: Hotdog Simulator
You hungry for hot dogs? Meat Grinder is a horror game centered around digging up graves and turning those corpses into tube meat. And no one would know the difference. Are you hungry for hot dogs now?
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Review – Splatoon Raiders
Across the 15-hour or so adventure, you’ll uncover the truth of these hidden isles, fight an increasingly eclectic collection of bizarre Salmonids, and tackle the biggest enemy of them all: a creeping sense of repetition.