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Something I've noticed after doing some three hundred of these Indie game reviews is that I've become attached to certain oeuvres: if I cover one game from a developer or a specific franchise of theirs for IGotW and enjoyed it, I'm more likely to eventually include everything else they've done for a vague sense of completion (excepting those that I'd already played/reviewed prior to starting th...
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As some of you may know I’m pretty obsessed with the Intellivision Amico, a vaporware nonsole that piled bad ideas on top of each other like a miser at a pay-per-plate buffet. It is impossible to dive into the Amico discourse without hearing about other contemporary projects that had more success through the radical business strategy of actually manufacturing and shipping products for people to...
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Assassin's Creed's Altair Ibn La Ahad joins a large number of famous video game characters in my Video Game Hall of Fame as #21 in a series of 52 2023 additions. Next week's character will be from the Gears of War series.
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Just when you thought it was over Just when you thought we were done Just when you thought it was safe, man We did it, did it again - Ja Rule feat. Metallica and Swizz Beatz, "We Did It Again" In some ways, this is a blog I didn't want to write. When the site announced Albummer! was ending after a 66-episode run, I was upset by the news. I held out hope when it was announced as a hiatus rather...
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Hey all and welcome back to Week 3 of May Magnanimity, looking at the smaller games from Itch.io charity bundles that may have slipped everyone's notice, as they evidently did mine if I'm only playing them now many months (or years) later. Truth be told I'm stoked to be reviewing tiny Indies en masse again, as I'd often get through a good twenty or so of these bite-sized beauties in a single Ma...
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This blog entry is part of a series covering games that are featured on my website about the Platform Adventure (aka Metroidvania) subgenre's history. It's a site created mainly as a quick reference guide for those looking for the next game to play or relevant and detailed info on earlier games in the subgenre for their other projects. The platform adventure subgenre, when seen as a retro reviv...
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It's been a hot minute since I last checked out a Swery game. In fact, I'm pretty sure the only other game of his I've played was Deadly Premonition , which I blogged about almost nine years ago . Dude's been busy since then, of course, focusing on smaller-scale Indie/doujin games since forming his own studio, White Owls , after leaving Access Games (with whom he made Deadly Premonition, D4 , a...
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This blog entry is part of a series covering games that are featured on my website about the Platform Adventure (aka Metroidvania) subgenre's history. It's a site created mainly as a quick reference guide for those looking for the next game to play or relevant and detailed info on earlier games in the subgenre for their other projects. Released at the tail end of what in the US was an in-betwee...
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Sam Stone, hero of the Serious Sam games, is the 20th entry in the 2023 Class in my Video Game Hall of Fame. Next week's character will come from the Assassin's Creed games.
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This blog entry is part of a series covering games that are featured on my website about the Platform Adventure (aka Metroidvania) subgenre's history. It's a site created mainly as a quick reference guide for those looking for the next game to play or relevant and detailed info on earlier games in the subgenre for their other projects. Brain Breaker (1985) is an early platform adventure game de...
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I'm still over here throwing darts at my sizeable (humblebrag?) Itch.io bundle backlog to see what gaming morsels I've been putting off for far too long, as a belated means of thanking those developers who put up their creative efforts to help with various charitable efforts over the past few years (and also to clear out a whole bunch of Indies this month, which used to be how I spent most Mays...
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Lo-Fi Plays is a series in which I look at short indie games made by single people or tiny teams. The releases I review don't receive a lot of fanfare, but almost every video game is doing something that merits attention. Usually, I feature six different titles here, but this week, most of the games are longer than the items I typically showcase, and I have more to say on each. So, this will be...
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I tell ya, nothing encourages you to check out a game in your backlog more than hearing about the release of its sequel. That said, Far: Changing Tides did come out more than a year ago, but then I never claimed to be particularly up-to-date with this feature's schedule. Far: Lone Sails is the predecessor of Changing Tides and the game we're checking out this week, developed by Swiss studio (ma...
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This blog entry is part of a series covering games that are featured on my website about the Platform Adventure (aka Metroidvania) subgenre's history. It's a site created mainly as a quick reference guide for those looking for the next game to play or relevant and detailed info on earlier games in the subgenre for their other projects. Below the Root (AII/C64/PC, 1984) , developed by Windham Cl...
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The Big Daddy machine from BioShock is my nineteenth entry in 2023's Video Game Hall of Fame class. Next week's character will be a character that was created in Croatia.
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It's New Zelda Week and what better way to honor Nintendo's efforts than by talking about decades-old games released on the system of their greatest rival? We're back with the next entry of the Mega Archive: a chronological look at the games released on the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis as their Giant Bomb Wiki pages are simultaneously polished up by this schlub over here. I'm still not entirely sure...
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This blog entry is part of a series covering games that are featured on my website about the Platform Adventure (aka Metroidvania) subgenre's history. It's a site created mainly as a quick reference guide for those looking for the next game to play or relevant and detailed info on earlier games in the subgenre for their other projects. The pre-Metroid era (ca 1979-1986) of Platform Adventure ga...
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On the Stars My Destinations by Alfred Bester The cover of the Star My Destinations, published under the SF Masterworks umbrella in UK with afterword by Neil Gaiman. This cover featuring protagonist Gully Foyle is almost inseparable from the book in my mind. The first time yours truly read this novel in Chinese, it was on 2003’s first issue of Science Fiction World All Translation Bi-monthly. O...
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Every May I embark on a seasonally-germane cleaning session for one or more of my backlogs. Since starting Indie Game of the Week I've been making plenty of forward progress on my Indie backlog in particular, however I've found that I've been unable to stem the tide of late due to some very generous charity bundles put out by Itch.io over the past few years. They've so far included the Bundle f...
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Note: The following article contains major spoilers for The Norwood Suite and minor spoilers for Off-Peak. I think of The Norwood Suite very differently now than when I first played it. A 2017 narrative adventure game by Cosmo D, The Norwood Suite is an outgrowth of his previous project, Off-Peak. Off-Peak's setting is officially a train station, but in practice , it's a gallery of hallucinogen...
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This is the first blog entry covering games that are featured on my website about the Platform Adventure (aka Metroidvania) subgenre's history, a site created mainly as a quick reference guide for those looking for the next game to play or relevant and detailed info on earlier games in the subgenre for their other projects. Released in 1979 for the Atari 2600, Superman was a groundbreaking game...
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Around a month ago I played some Superhot and I'm continuing the trend of stylish parkour FPSes with minimalist aesthetics with the excellent Severed Steel . Beyond a few dialogue-free cutscenes, you're told very little about this cyberpunk world or your role in same as a one-armed woman left for dead by security forces, beyond that those same forces are now looking to destroy the rest of you a...
