Tag: Review
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The Addictive Loop of Slay the Spire
Roguelikes. A genre built around trial and error. Fast, short, and brutal, they’re all about rolling the dice and honing your skills to their utmost. Deckbuilders. A genre built around patience and strategy. Slow, meticulous, they’re all about careful planning and combinations, about optimizing your cards to bring out your deck’s maximum potential. One is…
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Poirot Adventures: The Theft of the Royal Ruby
You might otherwise know it as ‘The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding.’ Which, quite frankly, is a way better title. Why did they change it? One mystery at a time. First: Who’s ready for a Christmas mystery?! Wait! Can you hear that? It’s the groans of all my American readers, complaining that tomorrow is Thanksgiving!…
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Dune Messiah Review: Chains of the Divine
‘Dune’ is one of the greatest sci-fi novels of all time. It’s also one of the strangest. Drug-induced visions and hallucination sequences. Complex characters and layered, meticulously written dialogue. A universe that captures the imagination, and a world so fleshed out you’d think you could step out onto the sand yourself. It is a masterpiece…
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Attack on Titan is Finally Over
We kept joking that Attack on Titan would never end. Yet here it is. It’s finally, truly over. Attack on Titan has been one hell of a rollercoaster. It was constantly growing and evolving. Season one was the ultimate hook, an action horror thrill ride that took the world by storm. Season two was a…
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Baldur’s Gate 1 is a Masterpiece
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster… when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you… Friedrich Nietzsche Even in the face of all the massive games we’ve been getting in 2023, Baldur’s Gate 3 stands as the clear frontrunner for…
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