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Lo-Fi Plays is a series in which I look at a grab bag of ultra-low-budget independent titles you probably haven't played before. With any luck, we can find some new games and new ideas among them. Here are five wee, weird, and wonderful finds. Baba Files Taxes In its difficulty, Arvi Teikari's Baba is You holds no punches. It's only thematically consistent that its sequel, Baba Files Taxes, put...
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WARNING: THIS BLOG CONTAINS SIGNIFICANT SPOILERS PERTAINING TO PERSONA 3! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! A Little Backstory Well... this was a mistake. I have now played Persona 3 and seen its ending twice in the year of our Lord, 2023. The first and more understandable time was done as preparation for my blog about Persona 3 Portable's Game Pass release . To better put me in the shoes of those heraldin...
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Something reassuring to know that, long after I die, long after the sun fizzles out, and long after the universe reaches its final anticlimactic heat death, there'll still be Indie puzzle-platformers being released on a semi-regular basis. Back in the Indie sphere's XBLA heyday, Braid led a whole crowd of these chill, ruminative platformers that sometimes demanded (but not in any insistent way)...
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Pro Yakyuu World Stadium Developer/Publisher: Namco | Release: 20 May 1988 (JP) Foreknowledge Psst. Hey man, check this out. You like that Famista? I got more of that Famista, but without that “Fami” part. GAZE UPON THE FACE OF YOUR DESTROYER World Stadium is Namco cheekily releasing Famista-style baseball games on any non-Nintendo platform. This started out in the arcades before a couple itera...
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An explanation of what's going on here can be found in the intro post . Last time with the PS1, we looked at the July 1996 PS1 releases of Olympic Summer Games, True Pinball, Fade to Black, and Shellshock . Last time with the 3DO, we dove into the deepest realms of madness with Road Rash, Alone in the Dark, Way of the Warrior, Road & Track Presents: The Need for Speed, and Plumbers Don't Wear T...
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Number #37 in my Video Game Hall of Fame is Warcraft villain Illidan Stormrage, introduced 21 years ago. The next character will be a Pokemon.
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A few days ago, I was lamenting to a friend that the Hottest Mess competition had cooled recently. Somewhere, a monkey's paw must have curled, because Unity decided Embracer shouldn't go unchallenged for this dubious crown. This is not to say there are only two viable candidates for the top prize, but... hoo boy. There is no shortage of candidates this year, both from news items I've pulled and...
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Continue to review Armored Core 6 Fires of Rubicon after New Game Plus In his review of Armored Core 6 representing IGN , Mithcell Saltzman wrote that the game has a 15 hours long campaign. I thought he was taking a piss at first since I saw credits after 37 hours. In all fairness, the man did review Elden Ring for that site as well, so maybe he is just too good at this From Software action gam...
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When Diablo IV first launched I was pretty excited. I bought it right away, tore through the campaign relatively quickly, did a little bit of postgame stuff, and then put it down. I got about 40 hours out of it (doing a lot of side stuff during my run) and put it down, satisfied. When they announced the Season of the Malignant season starting I was tempted to jump back in but Seasons in Diablo...
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When Diablo IV first launched I was pretty excited. I bought it right away, tore through the campaign relatively quickly, did a little bit of postgame stuff, and then put it down. I got about 40 hours out of it (doing a lot of side stuff during my run) and put it down, satisfied. When they announced the Season of the Malignant season starting I was tempted to jump back in but Seasons in Diablo...
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I am currently overwhelmed by the number of new games out that I am playing/want to play so of course I have been doing the most reasonable thing possible to handle that situation and playing through old Mega Man games on the Mega Man Legacy collection, which I bought almost a decade ago but never got around to playing. I've actually been having a good time with it, since Mega Man is one of tho...
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It's safe to say that for old school gamers like myself the transition from PS4/XBONE to PS5/Xbox Series has been unique among console generations. To put it simply, we've never seen the lines between generations blurred to the extent they are now nor for as long as they have been. We are coming up on the 4th year the newer consoles have been out and we're still seeing big games being released...
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Welcome all to The Room 4: The Revenge of the Oh Hai Doggy . Honestly, I don't know why Fireproof hasn't renamed this series to "The Rooms" since there's been multiple of the things in several entries now, just to avoid the usual jokes from hacky game reviewers. But, yes, we're back once again twiddling around with our Victorian knobs and edifices until something pops for another chapter of sli...
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Preamble Back in the spring of 2023, Square Enix announced that they would be doing a remaster of The Portopia Serial Murder Case, and this remaster would feature the first "official" English language release of the game since it first graced the world in 1983. Initially, there was excitement among those in the visual novel enthusiast crowd. Unfortunately, that excitement was immediately dashed...
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A Hard-boiled review in celebration of Tony Leung winning Lifetime Achievement Award from Venice International Film Festival Yours truly pretty much came to the spotlight of this good community by talking shit about John Woo Presents Stranglehold. Guess it’s time to bring thing full circle by talking that game’s supposed prequel, 1992’s Hard-boiled in 2023. This year seem an eventful for the mo...
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Another BioShock character has made it to my Video Game Hall of Fame, and it's Elizabeth Comstock. Next week's character will be from the World of Warcraft series.
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An explanation of what we're doing here can be found in my introduction post . Last week, we made our way through the mid-June '96 releases with Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors, NAMCO Museum Vol. 1, Epidemic, and International Track & Field . We've now reached the final few games of June, and will be wrapping up our time with the PS1 in the second quarter of 1996. We've encountered something o...
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Although early NFTs may have been little more than a JPEG image attached to a string of blockchain code, recent developments have shown that the technology has the potential to be so much more. Specifically, NFTs were revolutionized by the rise of “utility NFTs” which provide some sort of deeper purpose or additional benefit for the user. For example, some utility NFTs serve as a membership car...
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The Mega Archive is now entering the dog days of summer just as we in the present are mercifully leaving same (though it certainly doesn't feel that way right now), with this entry jumping into what I've pejoratively dubbed "Electronic Artsgust". EA was never a wallflower when it came to the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis , but being responsible for four of the ten games featured in part XXXV (or 35,...
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I have a friend I’ve known for over a decade. Over that time we’ve remained close. I was a groomsman at his wedding and we text pretty regularly. Every couple months we go to a concert or something together. I’ve spent time with his wife and their son too, a fair amount before the pandemic, much less during, and now more again as things have eased up. That son just turned 7, and over the last f...
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A couple years back , I took on a fairly intense challenge to play through as many games released in 2017 as I could to pad out what was an already beefy GOTY list into one with a hundred items on it: a testament to the exceptional output of that year (and one that has not been matched since, though 2023 is certainly making a strong push for that crown). While planning that feature, Splasher wa...
