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In the history of video game sequels, there will be very few, I think, that touch the level of improvements and enhancements in the way Death Stranding 2: On the Beach manages. When the original launched in 2019, the game was a Hideo Kojima walk simulator with action that didn't feel great and served as an introduction to a very unique and original world. Post-apocalyptic games are everywhere, but none of them were…
Final Fantasy XVI is the first main-line Final Fantasy title I have ever completed. This may be where one could split hairs, on whether Final Fantasy VII Remake can be treated as a main-line entry or can only live as a remake or as a spin-off considering all that Square Enix is offering the title. The only other title to claim from this series to story completion is Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII. Now, games…
Callisto Protocol is possibly one of the worst triple-A games I have ever played. I spent the last day of my holiday break completing the main campaign and felt like I should be owed another day off just for playing it. Callisto Protocol is one of those games that makes me terrified to spend $70 on a video game; thankfully, I had a month of Gamefly for only a dollar. It feels so clunky but so polished, so old while…
Lake is everything my favorite game would be. This game is story-driven, has solid mechanics, a full cast of characters, and a day-and-night system. What I just described would have been my favorite game from 2004. Lake lays out all its cards within the first two days of game time: you drive, you deliver, you drive, you talk and deliver, you drive, you go home and talk, lather, rinse, and repeat. I had been looking…
When "Part 2" is added on to a sequel title as opposed to a sequential number many begin to wonder why it would alter the convention of just slapping a number onto the title and giving it a basic label. The Last of Us Part 2 is the most Part 2 thing ever; three days before Part 2 was released I finished the first game again, which I had not replayed since the game originally came out and had bought the Remaster in…
Never before has fear been such a motivator inspiration to continue in a video game I've played before until I sat down with Layers of Fear. My college course of Art Appreciation might have pushed me into admiring something outside of a museum or gallery of beautifully constructed paintings hung on a wall for all to gawk at; o, did I gawk from the comfort of my own couch. My final project for this class was a…
