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Vol. 2: Super Mario Odyssey I never really cared for the Metroid genre. It's not like I didn't try; I went through Super and Zero Mission, I tried Prime, I played a number of indie games in that style... but it never really clicked. There were too many issues and annoyances that I assumed were just inherent to the genre. Plus, I kind of hate the term "Metroidvania." For one, the real Castlevani...
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Something I always appreciate about the Giant Bomb guys is their willingness to break out of their bubbles once in a while. Patrick made a point of it back when he was still with the site, occasionally trying genres that he previously had no interest in to see if either they had matured to the point where he found them palatable or he had, switching priorities for what he wanted from a game as...
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On the last Bombcast but one, Alex said something curious regarding the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive and its best known game, Sonic the Hedgehog . Specifically, he called Sonic one of the system's earliest games. The reason I call it curious is because I feel like it's an erroneous fact that a lot of people (myself included for a time) nonetheless share because of the general perception of the machi...
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For my personal reference, but pokepuns are for everyone. Most of these have been around but id like a big list of em (perhaps to use in the future) 1. Why? Wynaut? 2. Im not gonna raichu a love song, because you Ash'd Furret,because you nidoran 3. The boys arbok in town. 4. I want to go to the Zubat I can't 5. I wanna rhydon a mudbray 6. Id love to go to Paras? 7. Are you koffing? Yes I'm weez...
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Vol. 1: Introduction and Picross S Welcome back to Switch City! I may have been without substantial internet for over a week, but that didn't stop me from doing my homework for this feature. That's the magic of the Switch, I suppose - a magic I have begrudgingly come to enjoy. I used my time away to get every last stinking moon in Super Mario Odyssey . This was one of the "big two" for the Swit...
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...well, that planned return to the blogosphere went swimmingly, didn't it? Hey there folks. I know I said that I'd be returning to regular blogging in earnest from last month , and that was initially my intention, but I ended up getting diverted from that plan for a couple of reasons. One of them was family related, and while I can't go into any great detail on that front, I can at least say t...
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So, I wanted to do something a little different this week. There's a slew of video games forever being disseminated onto the internet via student projects, game jams, and low budget ventures, the majority of which won't see even a few characters devoted to them, and they could do with a little sunlight. Here, I'm giving micro-reviews of six different free and shamelessly raw indie games. It's a...
chuck@giantbomb.com (Premium member)
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After a deeply unpleasant week for a number of reasons (some dental-related, some heat-related), I'm looking forward to some peace and quiet to push ahead with Yakuza 5 - which might take me the rest of the year at the pace I'm moving, let alone the rest of July - and catch up with a lot of other backlog items across various media during the drought each summer brings. I think that's going to b...
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Overwatch, DOTA 2, and Rock Band 4, are the three games I constantly play all year and are my favorite games that never get boring. 1. The Lego Movie (PS VITA) Did it for the platinum trophy, the game was included with my PS TV I got back a while ago, meant to platinum it then, but got bored and finally got it and deleted it off my VITA. Its a bad lego game with annoying music and mechanics. 2....
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Part 1: First Impressions Are Everything Hold your horses Nietzsche, this is a Final Fantasy game! Society would like us to believe " first impressions are everything ," but Square-Enix never got this memo. Final Fantasy XIII's first three hours are a lethargic affair. Snow wants to save the love of his life, Sazh has a son, Hope's mother is dead, Lightning is a tsundere, and Vanille exists. It...
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Arlene was saved, but our soul will forever be lost on the cheese-filled nightmares.
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We're all aware of Jeff's opinion on Yoshi. Now, after his Garfield with Gerstmann series, we also know that he's developed a deep hatred for Odie as well. What if we combined the two and also remixed Cal Skuthorpe's Gerstfield into it? Introducing Jeff Gerstmann from Giant Bomb, Garfield and Odie from the Garfield comic strip, and Yoshi from the Mario franchise in the least ambitious crossover...
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Ah, we've once again come upon a certain recurring theme of Indie Game of the Week, wherein Mento is so entranced by an RPG's mechanics and/or gimmicks that he neglects to notice that the game is a clearly defined roguelike, and an insistent one at that. It's like buying a brand new chocolate bar because you were wowed by the packaging without reading the fine print that says "contains mint", a...
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The SNES Classic had a sterling assortment of games from Nintendo's 16-bit star console, but it's hardly all that system has to offer a modern audience. In each installment of this fortnightly feature, I judge two games for their suitability for a Classic successor based on four criteria, with the ultimate goal of assembling another collection of 25 SNES games that not only shine as brightly as...
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COURAGE IS THE MAGIC THAT TURNS DREAMS INTO REALITY Top 10 Anime Betrayals I wasn’t expecting things to go this way. Really. All I wanted was something to play with a controller after a repetitive stress injury in my right arm made playing Pillars of Eternity 2 (or anything else with mouse and keyboard) an actively painful experience. I figured, sure, why not try the bad sequel to Tales of Symp...
arbitrarywater (Premium member)
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Deep Listens is a gaming podcast series I'm recording with a few of my friends. Every two weeks we pick and play a new game and then discuss it from a literary, philosophical, and game design perspective. Its kind of like a book club for video games. We try to dig as deep as we can on an individual game every episode so check it out! In part three Gino and Chris "ZombiePie" -REDACTED- discuss c...
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A quick blog highlighting the few video game-related items during my week-long vacation at Los Angeles (29 June to 6 July). Anime Expo 2018 Day 1 Anime Expo was one of the two major ticket items during my week-long trip to Los Angeles and it was more overwhelming than I thought it would be. I knew it was big as in the past few years AX has exceed over 100k attendees, but I never expected to be...
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It's become something of a running joke of late that everything should be on the Switch. That's in part spurred on by Nintendo themselves, who have recognized the great expanse of nothingness between the release of Super Mario Odyssey and every other major first-party property of theirs, and have wisely decided to fill that gap by remastering and porting various Wii U games to the system in the...
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I originally made a version of this poster when Jeff and Dan started doing their All Systems Goku podcast. I have since updated it and have decided to make a blog entry after seeing how they are officially experts in anime now after appearing on the Giant Bomb x Crunchyroll ANIME 101 Panel at Anime Expo 2018.
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On top of the daunting heat, going back to work after a Wednesday holiday felt like a second Monday. Entertainment Star Wars: The Last Jedi - This is a bad movie. I've watched it several times to find something to redeem it and there is nothing. I say this as a Star Wars fan. Hellboy II: The Golden Army - I just needed something to watch after The Last Jedi and I wanted it to be something I enj...
dudewantshisrug (Premium member)
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There are few events that guarantee joy and excitement with more certainty than the World Cup. It doesn’t matter that FIFA is run by an openly corrupt cabal of capitalist power mongers, or that the tournament will be in the hands of human rights abusers until at least 2030, or that the United States, thanks to a mix of arrogance, incompetence, and a lack of actual talent, managed not to qualify...
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I swear I didn't pick an anime visual novel to coincide with Jeff and Dan's Anime 101 panel at Anime Expo this week, especially given how little I'd want to type a sentence that said "anime" three times, but it is true that I've been meaning to check out more visual novels of late. I've been interested in how much gameplay and interactivity plays a role in some of the big-name VNs, and how that...
