Tag: Nintendo
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Are Exclusives a thing of the Past?

Last weekend was Summer Game Fest, a weekend long event that has effectively replaced E3 at this point. Though unlike most E3s of the past we only really heard from one of the major three game makers, Xbox. PlayStation had a State of Play a week before all this but I wouldn’t really count that…
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I miss shorter games…

After playing Crow Country last week, it really got me thinking about how much I miss shorter, smaller budget games. Games that you can easily finish in a weekend and don’t cost $70. Those kinds of games are really rare nowadays or at least from non indie developers. If a major developer or publisher is…
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Fire Emblem Engage – One step forward, one step back

If you’ve been listening to the Games for Thought podcast for awhile then you may already know that I haven’t been too interested in Fire Emblem Engage since it was first announced in a Nintendo Direct back in September of last year. While I’m not the biggest Fire Emblem fan, having only gotten into the…
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Does Tears of the Kingdom have bad Dungeons?

Like most people, I have been playing The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom non-stop since it came out! The game is a total blast, building off what made it’s predecessor, Breath of the Wild, so great by giving players even more freedom and a bigger map to explore and enjoy. It’s honestly amazing…
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Episode 7: #Not an Ad is now live!
Hey everyone! The newest episode of the podcast is now up on Anchor and Spotify! On this episode, Ray and I talk about the newest Killer coming to Dead by Daylight, getting into the Final Fantasy series, games we play when we want to have a good time, how amazing Bloodborne still is, and how…
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I hate how much I love the new Pokémon

So if you’ve been paying attention to gaming news lately you probably heard that a couple weeks ago the new Pokémon games, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, came out. You also probably heard that they have terrible performance issues and awful glitches that can really hamper the game as a whole. And all of that is…
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Splatoon 3 – It’s just more Splatoon and that’s okay!

I’ve said before in previous posts that I don’t really feel that every game needs to strive to be innovative or groundbreaking. Sometimes it’s perfectly fine to play to your strengths and just keep doing what works. This is something that Nintendo is kind of known for with a lot of it’s games. Just look…



