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Roller Coaster Tycoon Review – Revisiting a Classic
It feels fair to say that Roller Coaster Tycoon is one of the most influential games ever made. It obviously hasn’t had the franchise staying power of a near contemporary like Pokemon or Age of Empires, but there was a time in the early 2000s when seemingly everyone who played games played RCT and even…
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Terra Nil Review – Rejuvenation by Puzzle
Terra Nil is a puzzle strategy game in which you’re dropped into a wasteland and need to build machines to restore the climate and habitat without running out of resources. Each level follows the same basic flow of starting out with a toxic patch of dirt that needs to be cleaned up and covered in…
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My Big Sister Remastered Review – Retread
My Big Sister: Remastered is a remaster of a game that is, confusingly, the first in its series to release, but the last in story order. It picks up from where Ashina left off and resolves the cliffhangers from the end of that game, although I suppose it’s more accurate to say that Ashina contrived…
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Red Bow Review – Ornamental
Red Bow is, story-wise, the first of Stranga’s My Big Sister-related games. It’s meant to tell the story of Roh, who was heavily alluded to in Ashina. Despite that, the connection to the other two games is so threadbare that you could easily play this without ever realizing it was part of a larger series.…
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Octopath Traveler II Review – Reaching Nirvana
Octopath Traveler II‘s approach to being a sequel is very much about refining existing ideas. Nothing here will be very unfamiliar to anyone who played the original game, but nearly all of it is more fleshed out and generally higher quality. Although I liked OT1 a lot, I was disappointed by its eight stories being…
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Our Summer Sports Review – Dog Days of Summer
Our Summer Sports is a collection of 10 summer-themed minigames from Sat-box, a very prolific maker of cheap bundles of themed minigames. I keep buying these because they’re stupidly cheap on sale and, if not exactly good, are usually entertaining enough for an hour or so. This one doesn’t depart from their typical fare at…
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Volcano Princess Review – Volcano Maker
Volcano Princess is a Princess Maker-style game from a Chinese indie studio. Both of these facts will be obvious from within a few seconds of starting the game. It’s proudly inspired by PM and borrows mechanics and ideas liberally, but generally does so with updates and reimaginings that make it much more than a shallow…
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Dredge Review – Shallow Ocean Fishing
Dredge is a game that sounds almost tailor-made for me specifically. I love both fishing minigames and creeping paranormal horror. When I had the time to play something so determinedly slow paced in college, Sunless Sea was one of my favorite games. At a glance, this looks like it checks all the same boxes and…
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Paranormasight Review – Stylish Mystery
Paranormasight: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo is a Square Enix visual novel that has remarkably little to do with anything else they’ve put out. This is a slightly goofy horror story set in the real world 1980s with some light “meta” elements mixed in. None of those are things Square is exactly known for, which…
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Lost Judgment: The Kaito Files Review – Expansion Excellence
The Kaito Files is a DLC expansion for Lost Judgment that is entirely focused on Kaito and his backstory. A case involving his almost-fiancée from 15 years ago and a teenager who might be his son pops up while every other character is conveniently occupied, so he’s got to take the job by himself. The…