Tag: Discussions
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Do games need to be innovative to be good?
So recently I’ve started playing Soul Hackers 2 from ATLUS and it’s been a pretty good time so far! I tend to really enjoy ATLUS and their RPGs like Persona and Shin Megami Tensei so I was pretty confident I’d have fun with Soul Hackers as well. It’s a pretty standard ATLUS RPG though. Great […]
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Ghost of Tsushima and how important polish can be for games
After talking about exclusive games last week I decided to go back to one of my recent favorite exclusives, Ghost of Tsushima, and play through it again. Especially since I hadn’t tried out the Director’s Cut version of the game yet. And while revisiting it, I was reminded just how important polish is to a […]
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Invisible Choices in Games
Choices are always a fun part of games. They can give games replayability or help cater the game to different play styles so everyone can enjoy. But more often than not, choices in games are used to affect the story of the game more than anything else. For some games, it’s the biggest draw of […]
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Making a Long Game Worth It
So in my last post I talked about short games and how their short length not only doesn’t hurt a game overall but can even improve it. And now it only feels right to do the opposite and talk about how a game’s long length can make for a great experience as well and how […]
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The Art of Feeling Cool in Games
Whenever you pick up a game, you always want to feel something as you play. Could be that you want to feel like you can go out and do anything in an open world game. Or it could be that you want to feel helpless and a sense of dread in a horror game. Maybe […]
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Returnal and why genre impacts more than game play
Having just finished up the recently released add-on, Returnal: Ascension, I figured now would be a great time to discussion Returnal, one of my favorite games from last year! And more importantly, the fact that it shows how the genre of a game can impact more than just it’s core game play. So what genre […]
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Yakuza 0: From Niche to Known
The Yakuza series is a trip… I can’t think of many other series that have made me laugh out loud during one scene and have me crying during another. It’s a series that knows how to blend tones masterfully so nothing gets too ridiculous or too serious and still feels like it all belongs. And […]
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Should ‘Souls’ games have an ‘Easy mode’?
A topic that often comes up when discussing Souls games is whether or not there should be a difficulty option for them. The Souls games are known for being rather difficult after all and a lot of players, understandably, find this to be a barrier of entry when it comes to enjoying the games. Now […]
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Enjoying a ‘flawed’ game
Have you ever played and enjoyed a game a lot while still considering it a ‘bad’ game? Calling a game bad is pretty subjective, of course. Games are art and it’s a little hard to define art as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ most of the time. It mainly comes down to preference. Not including games that […]
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How the length of a game can affect the experience…
A topic I see brought up a lot when discussing and reviewing games is how long the game actually is and how it can make the game better or worse depending. It’s a pretty interesting topic honestly! Mainly since you really can’t say that a game that takes 100 hours is bad and a game […]
Games for Thought 