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Review: Squares
Squares Trials is a mobile game that released back in 2013. The Peruvian developers, LEAP Studios, decided to take their project to the Vita to widen its audience. What we have now is Squares, a simple, challenging, addictive game that …
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Review: Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut
It’s hard to talk about Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut without talking about Portal. It’s a first person puzzle game with white, test chamber-like rooms and a story that keeps you in the dark, with the game not revealing who you are, …
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Review: NekoBuro: Cats Block
When asked what I think about NekoBuro: Cats Block on a recent podcast, I joked that it’s “not as good as Tetris.” After letting the game settle for a short while (I beat it a little over a week ago), …
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Review: Red Goddess: Inner World
Red Goddess: Inner World can be a two-headed beast at times. At times it can be a fun platformer, and other times it’s a frustrating and time consuming trudge. Most times however, it can be the latter. Red Goddess is …
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Review: Pneuma: Breath of Life
Pneuma: Breath of Life is a video game. But does that make it less valid; less real? What is real? The game was created by real people who purposefully made its graphical aesthetic look realistic, so it must be real …
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Review: Whispering Willows
Whispering Willows opens with daunting piano chords and a recurrent, faint sound of wailing voices. So sets the stage for this spooky historical fiction game by Night Light Interactive, published by LOOT. What’s great about Whispering Willows – its multi-faceted …
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Review: Project Root
Project Root pretends to be something it’s not really capable of living up to. Its flashy, impressive look is enough to draw you in but when you notice that the developers have made no attempts to make the game last …
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Review: Skulls of the Shogun: Bone-a-Fide Edition
I had heard of Skulls of the Shogun at various shows before. Like Orcs Must Die and a handful of other indies, it’s a game that gains a lot of accolades but was never on my appointments list due to …
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Review: Nom Nom Galaxy
The first time I played Nom Nom Galaxy, it was actually titled PixelJunk Inc.. Chris and I saw it at PAX a few years back and, being fervent Q Games fans, sat for an hour to see what it was …
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Review: Paperbound
My favorite strategy for consuming media of any form is to go in completely blind. I avoided all trailers and discussions about Intergalactic, for instance, and was pleasantly surprised by a Matt Damon cameo (among other things) halfway through the …
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Review: Squares
Squares Trials is a mobile game that released back in 2013. The Peruvian developers, LEAP Studios, decided to take their project to the Vita to widen its audience. What we have now is Squares, a simple, challenging, addictive game that …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review: Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut
It’s hard to talk about Q.U.B.E: Director’s Cut without talking about Portal. It’s a first person puzzle game with white, test chamber-like rooms and a story that keeps you in the dark, with the game not revealing who you are, …
+
Read More
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Review: NekoBuro: Cats Block
When asked what I think about NekoBuro: Cats Block on a recent podcast, I joked that it’s “not as good as Tetris.” After letting the game settle for a short while (I beat it a little over a week ago), …
+
Read More
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Review: Red Goddess: Inner World
Red Goddess: Inner World can be a two-headed beast at times. At times it can be a fun platformer, and other times it’s a frustrating and time consuming trudge. Most times however, it can be the latter. Red Goddess is …
+
Read More
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Review: Pneuma: Breath of Life
Pneuma: Breath of Life is a video game. But does that make it less valid; less real? What is real? The game was created by real people who purposefully made its graphical aesthetic look realistic, so it must be real …
+
Read More
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Review: Whispering Willows
Whispering Willows opens with daunting piano chords and a recurrent, faint sound of wailing voices. So sets the stage for this spooky historical fiction game by Night Light Interactive, published by LOOT. What’s great about Whispering Willows – its multi-faceted …
+
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Review: Project Root
Project Root pretends to be something it’s not really capable of living up to. Its flashy, impressive look is enough to draw you in but when you notice that the developers have made no attempts to make the game last …
+
Read More
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Review: Skulls of the Shogun: Bone-a-Fide Edition
I had heard of Skulls of the Shogun at various shows before. Like Orcs Must Die and a handful of other indies, it’s a game that gains a lot of accolades but was never on my appointments list due to …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review: Nom Nom Galaxy
The first time I played Nom Nom Galaxy, it was actually titled PixelJunk Inc.. Chris and I saw it at PAX a few years back and, being fervent Q Games fans, sat for an hour to see what it was …
+
Read More
Posted in - Reviews
Review: Paperbound
My favorite strategy for consuming media of any form is to go in completely blind. I avoided all trailers and discussions about Intergalactic, for instance, and was pleasantly surprised by a Matt Damon cameo (among other things) halfway through the …
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Read More
