THE END IS NIGH

This is the end

No sense beating around the bush—I’m shutting down this website and moving on to do other things. I’ve been weighing moving on since December 2019 when some family emergency stuff made running a site like this seem kind of small, but I’m too stubborn for my own good. It’s the sunk cost fallacy; once you …

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Final Fantasy VIII Remastered review

Final Fantasy VIII Remastered review - Seeing through new eyes

Final Fantasy VIII has always been an odd game to try and review. Despite being massively popular when it first released, it later became a popular target for criticism (some of which is rightly deserved). It’s also been one of my favorite games since I first played it in the mid-2000s. For something like 8-9 …

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Apollo Justice review

A retro Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney review

Right after I reviewed the Ace Attorney Trilogy, I found myself hungry for more Phoenix Wright goodness. I remembered playing through the next game, Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, in the distant past, but that’s always where I would stop playing through the series. For whatever reason, Apollo Justice has always been a tire-destroying pothole on …

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Lake review

Lake review - Warm and fuzzy nothingness

Lake is a peaceful, relaxing game where you drive around delivering mail in the Oregon town of Providence Oaks in 1986. It’s basically the amalgamation of Endless Ocean and Life is Strange (sans superpowers or villains), a kind of remarkable normalcy that’s comfortable to settle into now that the concept of “normal” no longer exists …

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Psychonauts 2 review

Psychonauts 2 review - Slightly better than a mouthful of nails!

My original plan for the end of August 2021 was to cover the original Psychonauts, then jump into the sequel armed with the knowledge required to meaningfully compare/contrast. I didn’t expect to loathe Psychonauts 1 too much to finish it. Little glimmers of potential would sometimes shine through its remarkably clumsy design, though, suggesting a …

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Psychonauts sucks

An unpopular opinion: Psychonauts is terrible

Welcome to yet another entry in the long-running, largely inexplicable series that is “that guy from killapenguin.com hates everything that is or ever was popular.” Of course, that’s not even remotely true, and there are plenty of old and new games that I’ve really liked, but I’ve given only one game a score higher than …

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