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Hello, I Am Mento, and I Am Reviewer for I Am Fish . It's a 3D platformer, sorta, wherein you help four superpowered fish escape from human bondage (not that kind) and reach the ocean so they can continue to, uh, bro out I guess. Fishbro out. Pretty much if someone turned that one aquarium part of Finding Nemo into a whole video game with a lot of dramatic twists and turns, albeit of the mostly...
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The Crew is kind of a bad game with one great gimmick. The map. The Crew is a (mostly) racing game that takes place on a compressed map of the contiguous United States, covering everything from Florida to Oregon, albeit shrunk down to a manageable size. You play Alex, a car guy who watches in horror as his benevolent gang leader brother is gunned down in front of him and he is framed for the mu...
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Joining Ryu, Chun-Li, Ken, and Guile is this week's addition from Street Fighter, namely Akuma (or Gouki to the Japanese). Next week's addition will also be a Street Fighter villain.
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Welcome back to another brief glance—the briefer the better for some of these—through the game library of the Bandai WonderSwan , an ill-fated portable system that nonetheless found some success dwelling in the chronological gap between the Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance . When it wasn't being sandwiched between two boys, the WonderSwan managed to produce a surprising number of games t...
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Man, it's good to be back with another Zeboyd joint. Last time I took on one of their delightfully compact JRPG throwbacks was way back in 2017 with Cosmic Star Heroine ( IGotW #32 )—an uncharacteristically current IGotW subject at the time—and I keep missing Cthulhu Saves Christmas whenever it goes on sale (oh wait, it's on sale right now. £2? Sold!) so here we are some scant seven years later...
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Paul Phoenix, of Tekken fame, joins fellow Tekken characters Kazuya Mishima, Jin Kazama, and Heihachi Mishima as the fourth Tekken representative in my Video Game Hall of Fame. Next week's character will be a Capcom fighting game character.
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Lo-Fi Plays is a series in which I set out in search of games that are compact, developed on little to no budget, or that otherwise lurk in the shadows of obscurity. This is not a safari of the technologically extraordinary; I am combing for pet projects that do something innovative, charming, or otherwise noteworthy. Here's the crop of downloadables for March 9th. Everything on this list is fr...
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Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is one of those delightful experiments that seem to happen most often at the beginning of a console’s lifecycle. The pitch of “Mario with guns in an Xcom-lite game” was so insane that it seemed hard to believe when it was announced. Here was Ubisoft, which had already transitioned into its “open world factory” phase and was well on the way towards its “everything...
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If there's two things I enjoy, it's Zelder satzes and not having to pay anyone money. Fortunately, Snoozy Kazoo 's Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion —a title so literal it makes the Japanese light novel industry sigh and wonder aloud how and when the art of subtlety up and died (though if it did, I doubt it'd tell anyone)—is a game that delivers on both of those beloved pastimes. As Turnip Boy, th...
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This week, let's delve into a quality of life innovation in gaming with a capital Q: Fast Travel. This game mechanic has revolutionized the way we navigate virtual worlds, saving us countless hours of tedious backtracking and uneventful exploration. While it has sometimes been criticized as lazy or for making players miss non-crucial for progression but still worthwhile aspects of the game, var...
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For a company with "Power to the players!" as their slogan, the players really don't have a lot of power. Ever since its establishment in the 1980s, GameStop is currently one of the longest lasting retailers that specializes in video game sales. These days, especially, like any other video game company, I simply cannot stand GameStop. Employees who truly are the most passionate about gaming are...
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From top to bottom, Persona 3 Reload’s post end credits title screen on Deck, Persona 4 the Golden (Japanese text and voice-over only on cartidge) running on Vita and Persona 5 the Royal (Purchased digitally from Nintendo Japan server.) on Switch. “Why play them on 3 different platform?” is the wrong question, since yours truly just went “Why not?” (The following is based on a save file of 3 ho...
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Akira Yuki, of Virtua Fighter fame, joins Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Alex Kidd, Gilius Thunderhead, Dr. Eggman, Axel Stone, Amy Rose, Shadow, and Silver as the 11th Sega representative in my Video Game Hall of Fame. Next week's character will be a Namco favorite.
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Welcome everyone to another episode of Mega Archive, your monthly examination of the best (and the rest) of what the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive had to offer the world. 1993 continues apace with another mix of, and let's be honest here, mostly trash. Well, that's perhaps too harsh, but my god do we have a continued downward incline of quality with some of the "highlights" this episode. That said, w...
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The Nintendo Switch is poised to become the highest selling console of all time. I honestly didn’t think that anything would dethrone the Nintendo DS or the PS2, both of which achieved their sales at a very different time, before the rise of cellphone gaming and, for the PS2, at a time when DVD adoption was in some ways more important than games. But on the Switch’s 7 th anniversary it has slow...
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Welcome once again to Explormer of the Week: a feature wherein I play explormers and nothing but explormers. Well, that's probably how it appears by this point—I'm not going to argue that coming up with a new spin on reviewing these things isn't getting as challenging as the developers themselves coming up with new variations. The aquatic, submarine-based Depths of Sanity would appear to be a n...
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For every Mega Man, there's a few Chubby Cherubs . For every Turrican, a few Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures . As some have argued, mayhap with prejudice, ignorance and sometimes factual errors, both Japanese and Western 2D platformers from back in the day tend to be so-so games or worse. While there are certainly standout titles from each region, and quite a few at that, it is nonetheless tr...
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Typically the sorts of games I write about are ones with a pretty clear beginning and end, so it's easy for me to know when I'm done with it. Thus if I want to write about it, when it's the time to do so. Even in the realm of ongoing games, Destiny 2 has campaigns with conclusions to them (also usually I don't really have enough to say about those for individual write-ups). I think technically...
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In the vibrant culinary landscape of Delhi NCR, mustard oil stands out as a quintessential ingredient deeply rooted in tradition and flavor. From its origins in the fertile fields to its prominent place in local kitchens, mustard oil plays a vital role in shaping the region's culinary identity. However, with a plethora of options available, navigating the mustard oil in Delhi NCR can be a rewar...
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An explanation of what's going on here can be found in the intro post . Last time we were with the Saturn as we closed out June '96 with Shockwave Assault, Shining Wisdom, Golden Axe: The Duel, Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3, and Worms . Last time with the Jaguar, we looked at their first batch of games in 1994 with Tempest 2000, Wolfenstein 3D, Brutal Sports Football, and Alien vs. Predator . Now, w...
