Month: February 2023
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Pentiment Review
Released in late 2022, Pentiment is a point and click narrative game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Xbox Game Studios. Pentiment is a breath of fresh air in the point and click genre with its rich story and unique art direction. Pentiment’s art style takes inspiration from hand drawn manuscripts and stained glass…
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Sonic Series Retrospective, Part Three: Technical Innovation & Knuckles
With Sonic CD safely tucked away on another system, the inevitability that was Sonic 3 could focus primarily on being a sequel to 2, and would pave the way for the series going forward, in a way that would quietly foreshadow the series’ jump to 3D on the Dreamcast. Of course, the devs had no…
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Star Wars Under Disney: Missed Opportunities
When I was three years old, my father sat me down in the living room of our small multi-family home and inserted a VHS of a movie. He told me that I was now old enough to watch his favorite movie and that it would teach all I need to know about life. That movie…
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Sonic Series Retrospective, Part 2: The Game with Two Sequels
In my previous article on the history of this series, I mentioned that Sonic the Hedgehog was a game at war with itself. I also said that it would receive two sequels in the future. Following their new mascot’s success, Sega was fully prepared to give him a bigger, better game to really establish the…
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