Tag: Video Game Review
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I Played Every Monkey Island Game and All I Wrote Was This Stupid Retrospective
Having been around for a whopping 31 years, Monkey Island is going to mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Maybe you’re an original gangster, having experienced the first game in the series all the way back in 1990 and its sequel the following year in 1991? Or you could…
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Chocobo GP Review – Indefensible Fun
I am a bad person for buying and enjoying Chocobo GP. Only in the year of our Lord 2022 could the physical act of walking into a shop and purchasing a game prove itself to be a moral dilemma. The upcoming Harry Potter game also looks to fit neatly in this category, and consumers will have to grapple…
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Bully Review – The Broadest Possible Strokes
To label something as a product of its time can feel like a non-statement, but for both better and worse, that is exactly what Rockstar’s open-world juvenile delinquent simulator Bully (or Canis Canem Edit in PAL territories) is. Released worldwide in 2006, players take control of fifteen-year-old troublemaker, James ‘Jimmy’ Hopkins, as he navigates the cliquey social strata…
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‘How Can You Be Friends With a Monster?’ – Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Review
If you’re anything like me, the title Guardians of the Galaxy immediately conjures mixed feelings. The initial charm of James Gunn’s 2014 action-comedy superhero flick has worn somewhat thin over the years, a phenomenon doubtless intensified by having to hear the phrase ‘I am Groot’ parroted ad-nauseam at countless comic-cons and on numerous message boards.…
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‘The Singer’s Voice Was Honey-love’ — Gitaroo Man Review
In some ways, it’s miraculous that Gitaroo Man was released in Western territories at all. An anime rhythm game in which you battle an axe-wielding demon, aliens, and a giant robot hammerhead shark (to excellent dub-reggae, no less) seems an odd choice for localisation — something you can imagine would have been rejected by publishers on grounds of…
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