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OpinionImpressionsThe Original Fire Emblem Is A Weird Game For The Switch To End Its Year On
I’ve spent the last week, in odd moments here and there, helping Fire Emblem’s Prince Marth search for a legendary sword and defeat the forces of darkness to rescue his kingdom from an evil wizard. Throughout all of it, in good times and bad, one question kept bubbling up to the surface: why? Why did…
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OpinionImpressionsCake Bash Is A Deliciously Sweet Take On Mario Party
Everyone loves a good sugar rush. It’s why, no matter how big the backlog, we gravitate to games that could generously be qualified as comfort food. But the sweetest sugar-rush I’ve run into lately isn’t some paint-by-numbers first-person shooter you’ve played a hundred times or some formulaic open-world adventure you won’t even need a tutorial…
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OpinionImpressionsWorld Of Warcraft Shadowlands’ Alt-Leveling System Is A Refreshing Change
Unlike World of Warcraft’s Legion and Battle For Azeroth expansions, which gave players a choice on which zones to level up their characters, Shadowlands’ story campaign is very linear. Fortunately you only have to play through it once. With the new Threads of Fate mode, players who’ve reached max level can skip the story with…
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OpinionImpressionsImmortal‘s Version Of Assassin’s Creed‘s Leap Of Faith Is More Of A Panicked Plummet
There’s a moment at the beginning of Immortals Fenyx Rising, the new open-world adventure from the developers of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, where it feels like newly-forged hero Fenyx is going to go full-on assassin. She climbs a massive stature, surveys the land, and then prepares to leap gracefully to the ground. She would have done…
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OpinionImpressionsFallout 76‘s Steel Dawn Update Feels More Like An Old-School Fallout Adventure
Fallout 76’s latest free expansion brings the series’ fan-favorite fascists back to Appalachia with a new mini-campaign that made me briefly forget I was playing an MMO. Steel Dawn, which came out a week ahead of schedule after a patch accidentally went out early on Xbox, adds new building areas called Shelters, some more cosmetics…
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OpinionImpressionsRed Dead Online’s Latest, Disappointing Update Shows GTA Online Is Still Rockstar’s Favorite
Red Dead Online’s latest update isn’t much. While Rockstar plans on adding a big new island to GTA Online later this month, complete with a new heist and more, Red Dead Online’s end of the year update is far smaller. And while some small amount of this new update is good, including some new bounty…
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OpinionImpressionsThe Switch Version Of Immortals: Fenyx Rising Tries Real Hard
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is not on the Switch. Neither is Watch Dogs Legion. The only one of this fall’s three vast, open-world Ubisoft games to grace the Switch is Immortals: Fenyx Rising. It doesn’t look as good or run as well as it does on Xboxes and PlayStations, of course, but for a Switch game…
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OpinionImpressionsThat Night, Steeped By Blood River Looks Like Nothing Else You’ve Played
That Night, Steeped By Blood River is one of the most interesting-looking games I can remember This surrealist exploration game has an aesthetic so unique that I’m convinced I’ll dream like it tonight, and as such am somewhat put off going to sleep. Created by Taylor Swietanski, TNSBBR is on one level a fairly standard first-person…
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OpinionImpressionsSuper Cable Boy Is A Precision Platform Game For Normal People
Imagine for a moment a precision platformer that is not only amazing-looking and smartly designed, but also accessible to regular human beings. Dizzy? It’s possible! I found it! It’s Super Cable Boy I understand the purpose of precision platform games. They’re for a select group of people whose gaming skills far exceed my own. They…
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OpinionImpressionsBakugan For Switch Has The Most Boring Battles
Remember back in July when Nintendo teased a new third-party game for the Switch and it turned out to be Wayforward’s Bakugan: Champions of Vestroia? The actual game is nearly as disappointing as the announcement turned out to be. Not only does it have the most tedious Bakugan battles ever, we don’t even get to…
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OpinionNext-Gen Consoles Load So Fast I Can’t Doomscroll Anymore
2020 hasn’t been a good year to check the internet. So, a nice bonus of playing on new, faster consoles is that I no longer have time to doomscrollthrough Twitter anymore. I first started noticing this when I played Godfall, of all games. I like Godfall. It’s mindless fun with some shiny, fancy graphics and…
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OpinionIn Case You Missed It, Reagan Was A Scumbag
America’s 40th president was a lot of things: a right-wing talk radio host, a Hollywood actor, a Red Scare monger, a charismatic liar. A great leader wasn’t one of them but for some reason Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War seems keen to revive that long-standing conservative fantasy. I can only guess how many…
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OpinionSorry, Tim Sweeney, But No, Absolutely Not
Tim Sweeney, who is probably celebrating the small victory of Apple slashing their cut from App Store developers making less than $1million in half, does not know when to shut up. As reported by TechCrunch, the CEO of Epic Games decided to fix his mouth to liken his company’s struggle against Apple to the civil…
By Ash Parrish
