Year: 2024
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I fell in love with search-action games when I played Castlevania: Symphony of the Night for the first time about six years ago. Since then, I’ve played through the three Castlevania games that were released for the Game Boy Advance, and I was surprised at how each one managed to capture the spirit of Symphony…
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I thought Star Ocean: The First Departure was a wonderful remake of a JRPG when I played it 13 years ago. Now we live in a golden age of video game remakes, and Star Ocean: The Second Story R is a shining example of how to remake a game. I would be delighted to see…
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I played Uncharted 2: Among Thieves about a dozen games ago, and it was a wild ride from beginning to end. It’s hard to imagine that any of the series’ setpieces could leave a more lasting impression than the in media res opening of Uncharted 2. There was only one way to find out, so…
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I would like Nier Automata well enough if it was just a 15-20 hour action roleplaying game about a pair of androids fighting less sophisticated machines in a proxy war between a small population of human survivors and a race of extraterrestrial invaders. But if you stop playing the game once you see the credits…