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With Final Fantasy Resonance's full release right around the corner, ZombiePie decided to write an article about its demo and why they think it's possibly the most notable, or even the best, demo of 2026.
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Mento suits up in his space-age cleaning gear for Loddlenaut only to discover, to his horror, just what Sebastian the crab meant by "Yeah, we in luck here, down in the muck here, under the sea".
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Mento got his ass kicked by Super Mario Galaxy's RetroAchievements set and wanted to vent about it. By which he means, "celebrate a Nintendo platforming classic as it edges ever closer to officially becoming a retro game".
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It's time to finally wrap up ZombiePie's retrospective on RPG developer Sting by looking at one of their most audacious, incoherent, and daring works ever: Knights In The Nightmare.
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A whole new season offers an opportunity to break out of one's comfort zone and play games you wouldn't normally- OK, fine, we're reviewing another exploraction game. Blast Brigade may have that Metal Slug vibe but does it have the gameplay to match?
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ArbitraryWater recounts his experiences with Pokemon Champions and the dark hole he found himself in as a result. Sometimes you just have to use a Garchomp, okay?
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The end of another season means new anime is upon us as well as plenty of recent and less-recent video games to talk about. Discussion topics: N64 platformers, a shelf-fulfilling prophecy, two Indies with gorgeous retro-futuristic aesthetics, and the horrors of the Super Mario Galaxy RetroAchievements subset.
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Children (well, mostly adults) sing the biggest hits of 2002, and Razor & Tie finally find the power of censorship in this recap of Kidz Bop 3!
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Summer is officially over, but ZombiePie didn't let that stop him from discussing another Sting "classic!" If you want to see where the studio started to lose their marbles, read all about Yggdra Union!
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It's Indie Game time again and with this first-person adventure game adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem novel, Mento makes the unfortunate discovery that "hard" sci-fi doesn't mean what he thought it means.
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Time to stick the N64 in mothballs again as we wrap up this season of 64 in 64, but I did manage to find two more 3D platformers (sorta) behind the back of the couch. Here they are. Sorry? "Sorry" seems the correct response for these two.
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A Link to the Past lets players discover Hyrule twice. This essay explores how the Dark World transforms familiar places into puzzles and unsettling reflections, making the player’s memory of the Light World their most valuable tool. It asks why witnessing a world’s transformation can be more powerful than simply finding a new one.
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Riviera: The Promised Land is not exactly the most orthodox strategy RPG, but as ZombiePie point out, it might be the best entry point into developer Sting's experimental phase.
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The Picrossalypse has happened and now the world has been torn asunder, with portals to nowhere opening all over the place. No fear, though, since all it takes to revive everyone and everything in Piczle Cross Adventure (Score Studios, 2020) is to be good at nonograms. No pressure, right?
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This was written as a List, but changed into this Article due to the word count and image posting limit there. So be it. More fun to keep you all guessing.
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It's time for an angry tongue-lashing on this episode of 64 in 64, or at least there would be if the two games featured this time weren't actually great. Sometimes it's easy to forget doing a feature like this that the N64 had some bangers.
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Before Metal Gear Solid, Death Stranding, OD and PHYSINT, there was Snatcher. I look back at Kojima’s 1988 cyberpunk classic and how its obsession with cinema, identity, technology, and pushing the limits of video games laid the foundation for nearly four decades of his work.
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Kidz Bop (2001) turned out to be a huge hit! Could Razor & Tie sustain their success, and also humiliate Ja Rule in the process?
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Final Fantasy VI explores grief as something that cannot simply be defeated or undone. Its characters must accept irreversible loss, carry the memories of those they loved and find new reasons to continue. In doing so, the game argues that hope does not mean restoring the past, but choosing to build a future in a world that can never be made completely whole. Spoiler warning: This article contains major spoilers for the story, characters and ending of Final Fantasy VI.
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The only true way to escape the dog days of summer is to shrink yourself down and enter a dog, where it's probably a perfectly reasonable temperature. BioGun is a shooter style exploraction game where your enemies are viruses and pathogens and your power-ups are enzymes and antibiotics. Just try not to think too much about where you're walking around.
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We're back once again with another two N64 platformers to critique after spending a mere (though it certainly felt like plenty) sixty-four minutes with each, and Episode 54 proves true the old adage that you should never work with children or animals.
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What does it really mean for a retro video game to hold up? An essay on design, technological ageing, nostalgia and the difference between influence and enjoyment.
