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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 – 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 – Medal of Honor (PS1)
Medal of Honor had humble enough beginnings, but it was the flash point for the entire WW2 subgenre of FPS. Anyone who lived through the aughts remembers that there was a new one about every two weeks. But let's go back to those humble beginnings.
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Review – The Goonies 2
R The Goonies actually "good enough?" More importantly R The Goonies 2 good enough? Most importantly, R this review of the Goonies 2 good enough? Gosh, I hope you get the reference I'm trying to make. Otherwise, this sucks.
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Review – Wax Heads
I can smell that fresh vinyl already. Wax Heads puts you behind the counter at a record shop. Can you make the recommendations? Can you handle the drama? Can you rise above? Probably! It's not really a game you can fail at.
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Review – MOLE
Sometimes you just want to crawl into a hole, and that's what MOLE is all about. Except it's a spooky hole. One that talks to people and makes them feel bad things. Navigate your giant drill deep into the Earth and tell it to stop.
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Review: inKONBINI: One Store. Many Stories.
Last year, I found myself in a bit of a reading frenzy with books about shops, stores, cafes, and similar neighborhood establishments. I devoured the likes of Robert Seethaler’s The Cafe with no Name, Kim Ho-Yeon’s The Second Chance Convenience Store, and—to a lesser extent—Mai Mochizuki’s The Full Moon Coffee Shop as I sought the comfort of their feel-good dramas…
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Review – A Cat’s Tale of Love and Friendship: Jingle Cats – On a Mission of Love
Do you like the Jingle Cats? If so, why? Well, regardless, I might have the game for you. It's about the Jingle Cats, it's from Japan, and it's pretty strange. It is probably not what you'd expect from a band of musical cats.
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Review – Dead Format
I'm a sucker for film-inspired live-action sequences in games, and Dead Format has them in spades. Building a horror game around various movie aesthetics sounds like a boffo idea, but when you add a vulture into the mix, that changes things.
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Review – Duke Nukem: Time to Kill
A spin-off of the Duke Nukem series, maybe. Time to Kill lifts heavily from Tomb Raider to create a game that isn't terrible, but has learned all the wrong lessons from its feminine counterpart.
