Category: Game Night
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The Rebel Flagship: The Final Hurdle of FTL (Best Boss Battles)
FTL: Faster Than Light is one of my favorite indie games of all time. Whereas other roguelike games I find more frustrating than entertaining, when I play FTL, I often find myself doing four or five consecutive runs, regardless of the success of any given one. It’s challenging, it’s satisfying, and it’s freakishly addictive. The…
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How Sonic Lost His Spark (and How He Might Regain It)
Sometimes, it’s hard to remember that Sonic the Hedgehog used to be one of the kings of the video game industry. Back in the 90s, he was the sole competitor to Mario, putting Sega right alongside Nintendo at the head of the video game industry. But nowadays? Not so much. Recently, Sonic has somewhat found…
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God of War: Ragnarök is a Masterpiece
This year has been a rather slow one for games. After Elden Ring came out and shook the world, things more or less went quiet. Plenty of indie releases and a few triple-A duds, but nothing truly exceptional. It was starting to look like FromSoftware was going to sweep Game of the Year with little…
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Final Fantasy V: The RPG That Bullies You
I have a somewhat odd history with Final Fantasy V. Technically, it was the first game in the series I ever played; I would play it a fair bit when I was a kid. But I had never actually finished it. In fact, I never even got that far; I’d get to the ship graveyard…
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Coffee Talk: Stories in the Cafe
First Legends and Lattes, now this. What is with wholesome coffee shops and fantasy that makes me so damn happy?! I knew absolutely nothing about Coffee Talk going into it. I’d never even heard of the game before. There was a sale going on after one of the co-creators, Mohammad Fahmi Hasni, tragically passed away;…
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