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It had to happen - there had to be a Mario Kart game that I would only find middling, after mainlining Wii and 8 Deluxe for a significant chunk of the time in my life that I’ve spent playing games. Mario Kart World represents an evolution, and even a
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I reviewed this on the Nintendo Switch 1, which is bizarre for me. Skyrim has been out, as I write, almost thirteen years, but, up until recently, it did absolutely nothing for me. I used to find Skyrim unengaging, and its approach of letting the player be a thief-mage-warrior-assassin-chosen-one overwhelming,
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Bully: Scholarship Edition is a remaster, featuring additional content, of Rockstar’s school-set open world action-adventure Bully (2006, Playstation 2). You play Jimmy Hopkins, a pitiable fifteen-year-old slaphead sent to Bullworth Academy, a not-so-elite boarding school that’s probably in New England during an unspecified time period that suits the
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It’s been near enough six years since I last played Heat Signature. I start a mission, I run in, thinking I’m hard, and immediately get pasted. I’m halfway through a save and I have no idea what I’m doing. I start a new galaxy and am
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The last hour or so of puzzle-platformer Split Fiction — where the two-player split-screen format, and the game’s basic premise feel like they work as one — is its best. That hour’s presentation of the nth rendition of certain platforming sequences is interesting in ways largely absent from the previous
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Donut County is a casual, cosy, narrative puzzle game set in an ultra-capitalist, even fascist, raccoon hellscape. You control an ever-expanding hole in the ground, swallowing objects in deeply earthy, American scenes in-between cutscenes set underground with a squabbling cast of critters, and just the one human. The writing is
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I’m not very good at the pinball game Xenotilt, but I am finding its onslaught of sight and sound engrossing to the point where I crossed the thirteen hour mark in four days. I play Xenotilt in the living room, I play it at my desk and, when I’
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Lake is a visual novel about mid-life crisis with a delivery itinerary minigame bolted on. You play Meredith Weiss, a computer programmer covering her father Thomas’ postal shift in a small Oregon town for two weeks; the duration of the campaign. I completed the game in two sittings; spending the
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I don’t go in for Steam Early Access at all, but this arcade ice hockey game that’s simultaneously trying to offer hockey tournament simming and a wacky powerups-roguelike has really got its teeth into me. I had never played NHL ‘94 on the Sega Mega Drive until the