Category Archives: videogames

COD:MEWTWO. Completely different from CoD: MEWTWO.

After playing a dozen Switch games, it was kind of weird going back to the Series X and jumping into the Biggest of Big Budget games, but it turned out to be a pretty good change of pace. I have … Continue reading

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Switch thoughts, 12 games later.

It’s safe to say that I’ve gotten more use out of my Switch recently than usual.  I just wrapped up my 12th game in a row with Qureate’s Prison Princess, an escape-the-room sort of puzzle adventure game with cute girls … Continue reading

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Let me be your HOG.

I haven’t played many hidden object games in the last few years, but I recently stumbled across the eighth entry in Sunward Games’ The Secret Order series on the Switch eShop, and since I’d played the first six games I … Continue reading

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Sense – A Cyberpunk Ghost Story

It has been a very – VERY – long time since I have played a traditional adventure game, the kind where you wander through some sort of fantastical setting picking up every loose object you can find and trying to … Continue reading

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Gunma’s Ambition: What did I just play?

So, Japan has a reputation for putting out weird games at times.  And I’m very guilty of pointing at something like Umamusume and saying “look, Japan so wacky!”. But, really, that’s just girls who are idol singers and also horses. … Continue reading

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Eroge minus Ero, take two: TroubleDays

More Switch gaming, this time Qureate’s visual novel “TroubleDays”. No, there’s no space in the name.  Yes, it bugs me too. If I had a nickel for every story I’ve seen where the plot goes something like “Succubus is sent … Continue reading

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Chrono Circle: I’m not obsessed, I swear.

So, I mentioned a couple of times last year that I had discovered an arcade rhythm game called Chrono Circle, that I had become quite fond of it, and that I had even spent some time grinding out the first … Continue reading

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Two out of three ain’t bad.

Hey.  Hey, you.  Do you like jazz music, mecha musume, and Taito’s 1981 arcade hit Qix? Because if you are at the precise center of this extremely specific Venn diagram, boy do I have a game for you. For the … Continue reading

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Setting these aside.

While I’ve been going through my backlog of Switch games recently, I’ve found a few that were decent but that I don’t think I’m going to put a lot of time into.  Since one of the things that is impressing … Continue reading

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Modern Combat Blackout: We have Call of Duty at home.

Let’s be fair.  Comparing Modern Combat Blackout to any games in the Call of Duty series is a massive disservice to MCB.  This is a Switch port of a mobile game from 2014 that can be had for $7.99 regularly … Continue reading

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