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Dracarys for you and you and you!
A discussion of my complaints about the last episode of Game of Thrones as well as storytelling in general and what audiences need to be told explicitly in order to understand what’s going on.
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Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey… Final Thoughts
SPOILERS! I just finished playing the main storyline on AS:Odyssey and all the side quests I ever intend to complete. I’m done. These are my final thoughts on the game.
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A Too Early Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey
I’ve only just started playing! But because I think it will be about fourteen years before I’m done playing this game, I figured I’d go ahead and write a review based on my initial impressions.
This game is frustratingly expansive and overwhelmingly detailed. It’s a long, slow burn with many of the best parts of past AC installments like sailing, hunting, and serial murder.
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Video Game Review: Spider-Man
OMG OMG OMG OMG SO FUN! This is a great first game in what I hope will prove to be a really brilliant franchise a la the Arkham Knight series of games.
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Decoding Love It or List It
I have a pretty good track record with predicting the outcome on Love It or List It, so I want to tell you some of the signs I look for to make my predictions.
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Video Game Review: Horizon Zero Dawn: Frozen Wilds
(5/5) Frozen Wilds takes all the fun stuff in the original game and adds a bit more to it. You get a few more weapons. You get some new skills. There are a couple of new challenge formats. And even though I was eventually 20 levels higher than the highest quest level, it was still a very enjoyable challenge.
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Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed: Origins
(4 of 5 stars) The oddly flat style of art and a control layout that I found rather awkward gave me a bad first impression of this game, but I’m glad I stuck with it because it ended up being a lot of fun. The story is only so-so, but I enjoyed the new game mechanics. Critics will likely complain that missions are repetitious, but that’s a hallmark of the series by now, right?
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Video Game Review: Middle-Earth: Shadow of War
(3 of 5 stars) It’s an open-world, non-canon, slash-and-stab, role-playing game with a weak story and repetitive action. I enjoyed the first game even though it has some of the same weaknesses, but that game had the self-respect to wrap up quickly before I got sick of it.