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2013 Game Review Haiku, #10 – Vanquish

Slide, shoot, hide, slide, shoot The standard “save the world” stuff Foreboding ending – These little haikus proved to be quite popular in 2012, so I’m gonna keep them going for another year. Or until...

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A videogames rundown in honor of Barristan the Bold

Right now, I don’t have any particular thoughts on a particular game, so I figured I could use a post to sum up what’s going on with the games I’m playing currently. As usual, I am juggling several,...

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Joe Danger 2, a colorful crash course in prodigious puns

To my honest surprise, I enjoyed Trials Evolution despite having no appreciation or interest in all things motorcycle riders traversing over obstacles. In my youth, I did do some light biking with...

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The Cave, a labyrinthine moral adventure for the tested and tedious

Excited about exploring and seeing what was next, the scientist ran ahead, but fell too far from a high platform and died, turning into a magical puff of white smoke and re-materializing earlier in...

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2013 Game Review Haiku, #15 – The Cave

Pick your three poisons Explore the Cave, heed its snark Ladders are the worst – These little haikus proved to be quite popular in 2012, so I’m gonna keep them going for another year. Or until I get...

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inFamous 2 is decent fun, but no shock to the system

So far, inFamous 2 really makes me want to go back to free Nazi-controlled terrain in The Saboteur or stop kicking dirt around and finally pick up Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time, y’know, the game I more...

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Collected all those scattered Blast Shards in inFAMOUS 2

I’m nearing the end of inFAMOUS 2–sorry, quick aside, but I previously wrote the game’s name as inFamous 2, and the copyeditor in me will not rest until I owned up to the error and corrected it going...

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2013 Game Review Haiku, #18 – inFAMOUS 2

Cole: ice or fire Stop the Beast, cure the sick, save New Marais, shocking – These little haikus proved to be quite popular in 2012, so I’m gonna keep them going for another year. Or until I get bored...

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How do you pronounce Serge in Chrono Cross?

Yesterday, I finally got around to kickstarting my goal of finishing these five videogames some time this year, starting off with Chrono Cross. It’s an RPG I’ve played countless times before, but...

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You say you want a Tekken Revolution

Last night, I switched on my DownloadStation 3 to see what I should grab next and add to my growing digital collection of games that I worry I’ll never get time to actually play. Yes, first-world...

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Mean gnomes, friendly fire, tenacious towers, extra elements, and goliath...

Alas, I’m still not in a place to really write at length about the videogames I’m playing (or thinking about playing). Y’know, unless that writing is really short and in the form of a haiku. This hard...

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Friendly fire is not be tolerated in Battlefield 3, so they say

When it comes to war-based videogames, I’ve always kept my distance. This is a twofer: a severe disinterest in using a digital gun modeled after a real-life version and shooting a digital person...

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2013 Game Review Haiku, #30 – Chrono Cross

A boy must travel Between worlds, fight the Darkness What a vague ending – These little haikus proved to be quite popular in 2012, so I’m gonna keep them going for another year. Or until I get bored...

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Dragon Fantasy (Book 1) grinds just like the old days

The open honest truth is I never really played much of the old Dragon Quest games. Or even the early Final Fantasies, for that matter. Well, not until pretty recently. It does not–and did not–stem...

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The good, the bad, and the grind of Dragon Fantasy (Book 1)

So, I beat Dragon Fantasy (Book 1) recently, as well as earned all of its Trophies, which makes it the first game on my long list of mostly untouched PlayStation 3 games to have a shiny 100% next to...

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Not bluffing over Poker Night 2′s poor performance

Last month, I dipped my big toe into the videogaming poker pool with World Series of Poker: Full House Pro, which is basically a poker game captained by Avatars with some cosmetic-only items to earn...

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Pretty late to the Joker’s party in Batman: Arkham Asylum

Batman: Arkham Asylum came out in 2009 to nearly unanimous praise, and four years later, during a PSN summer sale, after consecutively not experiencing Rocksteady Studios’ take on the Dark Knight year...

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The Half-hour Hitbox: October 2013

I can’t believe we’re already on the third iteration of this passably new Grinding Down feature, which, in retrospect, I should have put together years ago. The months surely do seem to be flying...

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2013 Game Review Haiku, #36 – Batman: Arkham Asylum

Bats is late for the Joker’s party, let’s just blame Those Riddler trophies – These little haikus proved to be quite popular in 2012, so I’m gonna keep them going for another year. Or until I get...

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Having trouble surveying the score in Grand Theft Auto V

I slip back into Grand Theft Auto V every now and then to drive around aimlessly, look at a few jokey billboards and websites on the game’s internal Internet, and do a main story mission or, at the...

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