15 POSTS WITH THE TAG <Reviews>

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Star Ocean: The Second Story R

12 months ago6,109 words

Star Ocean: The Second Story was one of the many games I had for the original Playstation during my childhood. It's probably one of the first RPGs I ever played, and was likely a huge influence for what I did with my own RPGs, especially MARDEK. I just finished the recently-released remake, so here's an exhausting excess of spoiler-filled thoughts about that!
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Chrono Cross & Radical Dreamers

3 years ago3,207 words

In case you don't already know, Chrono Cross is a PS1 game that's a sequel (kind of) to the SNES classic Chrono Trigger, which just got a re-release/remaster on the Switch. I just played about an hour of it, and wanted to write out some thoughts, mainly about the battle system. The remaster also includes a short text-based prequel (again, kind of) called Radical Dreamers, which I played and also want to write out some thoughts about!
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OMNO

3 years ago1,567 words

I played an indie game made by one person plus a composer, and was impressed!
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Kingdom Heart 1.5 FINAL MIX INTERNATIONAL / 274.77 & Knuckles

3 years ago3,421 words

One down, like a dozen left to go! Here are some spoiler-filled ramblings about replaying this game for the first time in probably almost two decades??
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Kingdom Hearts' Intro

3 years ago2,453 words

I decided on a game to (re)play: the entire Kingdom Hearts series. I might even get through them all before I turn 40 if I start now!
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Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus - Revisiting My Childhood

3 years ago1,774 words

Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus is a PS1 game that was a big part of my childhood, which was recently reimagined as Oddworld: Soulstorm (which ∞ I played a couple of months ago ∞). I revisited the original to see if it still holds up; I enjoyed it!
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Oddworld: Soulstorm

4 years ago3,070 words

I recently kind of finished this reimagining of a game I have fond memories of from my childhood. I've been looking forward to it for a while, and I felt it was particularly valuable to observe how I felt about it - especially the changes - because it might be similar to how old MARDEK fans might feel about Divine/Atonal Dreams...
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Bravely Default II - Final Thoughts

4 years ago3,117 words

I've finally finished this game now, so I want to blurt out all the thoughts I had about it along the way before moving onto the next thing!
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Hyrule Warriors - Age of Calamity

4 years ago - Edited 4 years ago3,545 words

I enjoyed this AAA hack-and-slash Breath of the Wild spinoff more than I expected to! (This might contain some spoilers, if screenshots of some playable characters count as such for you.)
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Indie Game of the Week 1 - Timelie

4 years ago - Edited 4 years ago1,750 words

I should play more indie games, so I've decided to try a new one each week! This week, I played ∞ Timelie ∞, an interesting time-based stealth puzzle with a mechanic based around manipulating a media-player-like timeline to redo the past or glimpse the future. I've never played anything like it before, and was quite impressed by how well it worked and how intuitive it felt to play!
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UNDERTALE

4 years ago - Edited 4 years ago12,897 words

After putting it off for years, I finally played an obscure game called UNDERTALE that you've probably never heard of. Here's my 13,000 word dissertation about that experience. I hope I get an A. That is not the grade I would use to describe my personal experience of this game. (I'm assuming everyone and their little annoying dog have already played it and/or are intimately familiar with it, so this is full of spoilers.)
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