Joshua Rivera
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A Mario Maker Remake Perfectly Captures The Moodiness Of Hollow Knight
Mario Maker isn’t all that great if you’re craving something moody. The game has proven itself to be an incredibly flexible tool for making clever video game levels that are quite unlike standard Mario designs, but it’s only got a few ways to tinker with mood or tone. That means player CerulanOak has a hell…
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Manifold Garden Is A Puzzle Game About Infinity, No Big Deal
Video games are quite fond of the work of M.C. Escher—you’ll see his influence in the mundane labyrinths of Control, the disorienting symmetry of the stealth game Echo, or in the clever puzzles of games like Monument Valley and echochrome. You can now add Manifold Garden to that list. And, like those other games, it’s…
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Character Creation Should Take 5 Minutes, No More, No Less
I love creating a character whenever I start a new role-playing game. I also love stressing myself the hell out over it. I find the question that they often pose — How would you like to play this game? — fundamentally ridiculous. Man, I don’t know! I’ve never played this game before! I truly don’t…
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Destiny 2’s New Grind Might Be Asking Too Much
Destiny 2: Shadowkeep is made with the dedicated Destiny player in mind. It’s an expansion that foregrounds much of the maths that Destiny has spent the last few years hiding, giving players more control over how they tweak and build their Guardians to play the way they want them to play. I enjoy this, but…