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Narelle is a freelance writer with a New York State of Mind. She's a member of the TAY Blog (www.tay2.org), where she can be found musing about JRPGs, music and doing this ಠ_ಠ. Reach her on Twitter.

I said it yesterday and I’m saying it again: get Grow Up. It’s a weird happenstance that Grow Up has quietly emerged at the same time as all the furore about No Man’s Sky. It’s almost impossible to play Grow Up without thinking of the parallels with this summer’s biggest game.

The game shines when you completely dismiss the thought of goals and objectives, and truly embrace the idea of being an explorer. I left my first planet quickly, because I wanted to see at least two of them before my Steam refund window ran out. And I haven’t left that second planet since then. I’ve even exploring Read more

Well, someone’s waking up with an unflattering word on their forehead.

If you’ve seen at least 10 planets, you’ve seen them all. And then it’s a scavenge, repair and then race to the center. I finished the Atlas path in one day and then the journey to the center took a couple days on and off. It was rather lackluster, but I’m in a new galaxy now and I’m not sure if I want to do it all Read more

I really wish there were some epic moments in the game. Earthquakes, animal stampedes, gravity so strong it forces you to crash land. Random ship malfunctions . Something for the player to problem solve. I would love to get into trouble in the atmosphere of a planet and suddenly realize engine failure forcing me to Read more

I’ll look for words until I get fed up, switch to mining, then to Tharium mining and getting attacked by annoying pirates, then hit the space station to sell some loot. Flip planets, if I hit one with fauna I’ll look for a big one (4.68m so far), maybe look for a tiddler or two. I mix this up and I’ve not at all burnt Read more

From what I understand crashed ships are always one better than your current ship. Its funny though I was like 6? Systems in before I even saw an atlas stone. Read more

I think you got the shooting rocks portion down, now just craft some metal sheets and get that thing running! Read more

I got 5 Atlas Stones in before realizing I need to go off that path to get to the more rare resource filled worlds that you can reach using the upgraded hyperdrives. I’ve decided I need to find a vortex cube planet and farm it so I can get a bigger capacity ship, my current only holds 23 slots. The crashed ships are Read more

Any zork fans? In Zork Grand INquisitor, the dungeon master just calls you Ageless, faceless, gender neutral, culturally ambiguous adventure person, or AFGNCAAP for short.
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One of my favourites is the character creation screen in Fallout 4, especially the gender selection. Also, who can forget Professor Oak forgetting his grandson’s name?
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Just Cause 3. I haven’t had this much fun or invested as much time (plus $ for upgrades) in a game in years. The thing is, I got stuck on like the 5th mission and I have Just been wandering around Causing trouble for months.
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You should really play the games. The anime for the first game was a disservice to the game. It was like Danganronpa 1 Wikipedia edition. Read more

0_0 No No. Don’t watch this anime if you haven’t played the other games. They are direct sequels and you won’t understand anything of what is going on. Danganronpa 2 is extremely important for understanding this anime. I recommend playing Danganronpa 2 and Another Episode. If you don’t have a Vita then watch a play on Read more

Too many to go into detail, but I have loved this genre for a long time. No one game has had everything I love or want, but many of them have nailed aspects of it. Read more