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Shenmue: A Flawed Gem
Shenmue does a better job of making me feel like part of a world than most games do even today. In Shenmue, you need to talk with people, you need to manage schedules and you need to keep track of clues. The world has its own time system. You wake up at 8:30 and you… Read more
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Final Fantasy VI: A Grand Finale
A thorough glance at the sixth mainline entry of the Final Fantasy franchise Read more
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Final Fantasy V: Job System Overload
A thorough glance at the fifth mainline entry of the Final Fantasy franchise Read more
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RIP Akira Toriyama
It was the summer of 1996. A younger version of myself waltzed into a rip-off blockbuster, one of those family owned joints that often gets conflated with Hollywood Video, and was struck by the cover artwork of one game in particular. Chrono Trigger. It drew me in like a siren’s song. It just looked so… Read more
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Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest: Another Side, Another Story
A thorough glance at the first true spinoff entry of the Final Fantasy franchise Read more
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Final Fantasy IV: The Next Generation
A thorough glance at the fourth mainline entry of the Final Fantasy franchise Read more
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