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Atelier Lydie & Suelle : The Alchemists & the Mysterious Paintings review

Atelier Lydie & Suelle : The Alchemists & the Mysterious Paintings review

Atelier Lydie & Suelle: The Alchemists and the Mysterious Paintings is the third installment of the Mysterious Atelier series, and in my opinion the second best in terms of enjoyment. That said, this game has some…. problems… Atelier Lydie & Suelle follows the titular characters, a set of twin girls who run an alchemy atelier with their father, their mother having passed away years earlier from…

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My Top Ten Games of 2021

My Top Ten Games of 2021

With 2021 over, I thought perhaps, just maybe, for only the second time ever in the existence of this blog, I would make a top 10 of the year list. However, I wanted to do things a little different this time. This list, while dominated by 2021 released, is not solely relegated to 2021 releases. After all, why should games I played this year not get to be mentioned just because they weren’t…

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Something, Something, I played Mass Effect for the first time ever and it ate my life.

Something, Something, I played Mass Effect for the first time ever and it ate my life.

Am I alive? Yes! Am I well? Mostly! I did probably incur a concussion last week, hence why I’ve been sitting on this so long – hard to edit when screens “hurt” after a full day of work, but I’m probably mostly okay now. I’m off work this week, at least. Anyway, I come to you today to talk about the game series that took over my life for about two months: Mass Effect! Namely, the experience of…

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Getting the Gang Back Together & a Metaverse Road Trip - Persona 5 Strikers review

Getting the Gang Back Together & a Metaverse Road Trip – Persona 5 Strikers review

As I sit here writing this, I just finished Persona 5 Strikers about an hour or so ago, and my overall thoughts on the game? It’s a fine and good experience. If you loved P5 or P5R, it’s a fun expansion on that. I’ve also been feeling the nostalgia for summers gone by and vacations/leaving my house, and this was a lovely experience to bask in those feelings in a positive way. Even if you’re not…

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Little Kids, Big Nightmares - Little Nightmares 2 review

Little Kids, Big Nightmares – Little Nightmares 2 review

The “little” part in Little Nightmares II might just be a massive understatement. To paraphrase a tweet I made while playing, never did I expect to think that the original Little Nightmares was upbeat, but oh how I longed for those halcyon days when my biggest concern was running from giants who just wanted to eat me. Little Nightmares II took the horror aspects of the first game and bumped them…

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The Best Game More People Need to Play: A review of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

The Best Game More People Need to Play: A review of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim

Holy heck, I finally finished 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim! It took me… an absurd amount of time. It’s not even like I truly paused to play anything else, it just took me awhile to be in the mood for it. The beginning is slow, or at least it was for me. However, I guess the “beginning” may vary from person to person, as you sort of get to pick the order in which you play most of the game. You know…

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Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea review

Atelier Shallie: Alchemists of the Dusk Sea review

Disclaimer: This was written in late February/early March. This in no way impacts what is written here, just worth noting for some otherwise odd references to the time of year.

2020 seems to starting off as the year where I finally dip my toes into the series I’ve always been curious about but never before tried. The Atelierseries is one I’ve been curious about for probably close to ten years…

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Long Time, No Blog - My Pandemic Gaming

Long Time, No Blog – My Pandemic Gaming

Long time no blog! 2020 has been…. weird? I guess that’s the lightest possible way to put it. I had no intention of just straight up disappearing this year, but shit just went so sideways in the world. I had two complete reviews/impressions written that I just…. never posted? Mainly because by the time I was getting ready to, coronavirus had hit my country and nothing seemed that important…

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Well, I played Kingdom Hearts III Re:Mind, and…. I don’t want to be negative. I enjoyed it enough, and it did address, ever so slightly, some of the wrong it did by some of the characters (*cough*anyone other than Sora*cough*). However, it was also kind of a hot mess. Which, to be fair, KH3was just a hot mess in general, and I don’t think I ever truly thought DLC would or could necessarily fix…

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Alan Wake's American Nightmare and Its Problematic Treatment of Its Female Characters

Alan Wake’s American Nightmare and Its Problematic Treatment of Its Female Characters

There was a time in the early days of the 2010’s where I didn’t play much that was new in the world of video games. Due to restrictions on time and money (damn you, college!), I rarely ventured outside of franchises that I knew I loved. If I did brave those mysteries outside of my known quantities, I was often very late to the party. This is one of those verylate to the party cases – I finally…

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The Layers of Fear and Their Links to One Another

The Layers of Fear and Their Links to One Another

Three, now almost four , years ago (holy shit! That’s so long!), I played the original Layers of Fear. It reinvigorated my love for survival horror, which was lacking in the death of Silent Hill, as well as a brand new appreciation for indie horror games. Those things taken into consideration, in the years between then and now, I’ve developed some rose-colored glasses in regards to the game…

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To Re-Brand or Not to Re-Brand, That Has Been the Question

To Re-Brand or Not to Re-Brand, That Has Been the Question

I feel like from the beginning, I’ve constantly been trying to find my voice with this blog, yet somehow, as time passed, I struggled more and more to do so. Granted, this blog wasn’t the only place I struggled in such a way. It’s been…. I won’t say a rough few years, so much as it has just been… Well, a  lot of looking inward into things like who I am, what I want in life, and how do I even…

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Another late monthly check-in

Another late monthly check-in

November was mostly radio silence from me, with the exception of early on in the month. I don’t know where the time goes, other than I guess the day-to-day occurrences of life eat it like some super rude PacMan, which I guess makes me the ghost? I don’t know, I’ve lost this analogy before it even began. Regardless, I feel like I don’t know where the month went. Even with a long weekend for…

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A Late Post-October Check In

A Late Post-October Check In

I was so busy writing about Catherine: Full Body that I almost forgot to do my end of month check-in! Which I guess at this point is more of a beginning of month check-in? Eh, oh well, either way.

Spooky, scary, Halloween month resulted in the playing of a couple of games. First was the final season of Tell Tale’s The Walking Dead. You can read about my thoughts on it here. I also played a short…

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Catherine: Full Body - A Discussion on Rin

Discussing my feelings on Catherine: Full Body and it's treatment it's newest character.

I remember back in the day feeling like Catherine was kind of revolutionary. It was the PS3 days and a different time; it felt like story-heavy games with little to no combat were a rarity, and morality systems still felt novel. Bioware games had them, but beyond that it seemed options were limited. And then there was Catherine, and younger!me was kind of delighted to play this weird as balls…

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I played a game recently called Missed Messages, and while it wasn’t necessarily what I expected, I still think it is absolutely worth talking about.

Missed Messagesis described on its Steam page as “A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.” That, along with the fact that it’s a short, visual novel experience made me not quite sure about what to expect, but I’m in my spooky, Halloween,…

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Just a Small Town Girl, Raising a Kid in a Zombie World - Telltale's The Walking Dead The Final Season sort-of review

A not-quite review of Tell Tale's The Walking Dead The Final Season. Mostly just me talking about how much I cried.

I first played Tell Tale’s The Walking Dead two years ago, probably almost to the day at this point, while on a staycation from work. I don’t know what exactly made me pick it up – maybe that it was October and it held the promise of zombies, or maybe it was a PS Plus game at some point that was now just sitting around in my games library? – but I somehow picked it up knowing next to nothing…

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