Category: Video Games
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My E3 2019 Thoughts!
It’s E3! There have been so many cool announcements, and I do not have the mental or temporal capacity to talk about them all, but here are some of my thoughts! Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order Everything I hear about this game sounds great, but the gameplay demo did nothing for me. I’m really hoping […]
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Detective Pikachu is weirdly dark, but tons of fun!
My wife and I went with her sister’s family to see Detective Pikachu this afternoon, and had a ton of fun! The film is charming and fun, but it’s greatest strengths by far are Pikachu and his Pokémon costars. I’ve only played a bit of the Detective Pikachu game, but have played a boatload of […]
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Returning to Midgar: FF7 and the Materia Lockdown Challenge
I’ve played through Final Fantasy VII exactly once. It was about 15 years ago, and I absolutely loved it. A few years after that, I started itching to play it again, but never got around to it. Then there started to be rumors of a remake, so I decided to wait. Then I started listening […]
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Finishing Far Cry 5 was Frustrating
Because I was excited about New Dawn, I finally dropped back into the world of Far Cry 5 to finish off the last little bit of the game I hadn’t done yet. I beat the last mini-boss, liberated the third territory, and took on the big bad. Overall, the game succeeds at fun moment-to-moment gameplay […]
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I’m surprisingly excited for Pokémon Sword and Shield
I grew up loving Pokémon. I remember the very first time I saw a kid at school playing the Blue version on a GameBoy pocket in the library, and went home asking for it that day. I competed in a tournament at a mall, once, and reset my save file because I heard you’d be […]
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