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sparky_buzzsaw
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Recent Reviews
All reviewsKing's Quest2015
2 out of 5 starsI really want to like the new King's Quest. Someone - or a team of someones - put a lot of their soul into the early parts of this game, crafting a Daventry I wanted to explore with fun Shrek-esque takes on the familiar characters of the King's Quest games of old. Having stories set around the events of those games is an inspired design decision and one that occasionally nears greatness in the new series. But after…
Rogue Galaxy2005
4 out of 5 starsWhen they're not shoving out confused, mechanically stillborn garbage like White Knight Chronicles, Level 5 can crank out some damn great games. Their greatest trifecta to date is the loosely-defined trilogy of PS2 era action-RPGs Dark Cloud 1 & 2 and their spiritual successor Rogue Galaxy. At the time of its release, Rogue Galaxy was ambitious, but suffered from severe frame rate problems and long, often buggy…
Batman: Arkham Knight2015
2 out of 5 starsWhen it comes to great sequels, few games knocked it out of the park in the 360/PS3 era quite like Arkham City. It expanded upon the cool gameplay of Asylum and added some fun new tech and a great world to explore, along with a strong narrative and a hell of a lot of fun stuff to see and do. Arkham Origins was passable, mostly because it didn't upset the apple cart - if someone liked Arkham City and wanted more of…
Contradiction: Spot The Liar!2015
5 out of 5 starsAs the title should indicate, this is a review for the iPad version of Contradiction: Spot the Liar and is not indicative of the PC version. I'm a big fan of hammy performances and movies. I'm that die-hard Bruce Campbell fan who has watched Army of Darkness more times than I care to count, has Brisco County, Jr. on DVD, and sat through every episode of Jack of All Trades. I'm fond of Syfy's absurd films. I've…
Lists
All lists2024's Games I Gave the Delight of My Company
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2023's Megamix Playlist Ahoy Hoy
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Sparky B's Best of 2022
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2023 Good Stuff Sparky Played
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Best of the Video Game Good Boys
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Articles
All articlesAll the love, friends
May 1, 2025
EDIT - Rarely have I ever been so glad as to say NEVER MIND! But I'll keep this blog intact so you can get in touch with me elsewhere if you so choose. Heya folks. Not much to say that hasn't already been said about the site, but this isn't a goodbye - it's a "here's my contact info and you damn well better get in touch" post. First, the best place to find me is probably Facebook here . If that...
Sparky_B's End of the Year Soiree
Dec 19, 2024
Hey, hey, you, you, you could be GOTY, hey, hey, you, you, I think you were pretty awesome. All right, folks, you know how this goes. I, Sparky_Buzzsaw, light of your life, keystone of your heart, irritant to your bowels, master of my domain, tell you the games you should rush out and play while also talking about some gaming misfires. Please bear in mind with my end-of-the-year things I never...
10k posts and sixteen years later...
Sep 20, 2024
I hit 10,000 forum posts here on Giant Bomb today, a fun number to stop and say, hey, thanks again to one of the best communities on the Internet. I hope forums regain their popularity. I dislike the impermanence of things like Discord and Slack, but I understand the functionality is better on those apps than it is a website whose forum tools have been broken so long now it's become the most de...
Cold Steel - Several Hundred Hours of Nothing at All
Jul 10, 2024
I did it. I saw credits roll on Trails of Cold Steel IV - twice, since I saw the Normal and Not-So-Secret ending. I finished off the last of the Cold Steel games. I pulled down the series' shorts, bent it over my knee, and made it call me Daddy. I'm finally free of that fucking series - at least until I pick up whatever the canonical next game in the series is, because as much as I hated my las...
SparkyB's 2023 End of the Year Extravaganza
Dec 30, 2023
Well well well. It's been a minute, you sexy thing, you. How you doin'? You ready to get your mental guts churned by my sweet, sweet word lovin'? You'd better be, because I'm Sparky_Buzzsaw and you're about to cram a whole bunch of me into your brain cavity. While Giant Bomb's community-focused side of things is slowly atrophying, I still have a lot of love for this place and the many, many fri...
SparkyB's Marvel Snap favorite decks
Dec 7, 2022
I think by now it's safe to say Marvel Snap is going to be one of my most obsessed-over games of the year. I'm not usually into deck builders or lane-based games, but for whatever reason, I'm both wildly entertained and actually pretty okay at Snappin'. I think it's mostly that you can build and play a viable deck from the get-go throughout the game's highest tiers that really appeals to me. Su...
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