game diary
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The Unexpected Difficulty Of Choosing Who To Play As In Hunting Simulator
1I’ve always been curious about hunting sims, mostly because I want to vicariously wander around the woods. I’m excited to check out a recent one that just got ported to the Switch, but right now I can’t decide which character to pick.
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The Star Ocean Mobile Game Is Easy To Hate And Still Play Anyway
There’s finally a new Star Ocean game after 2016’s barebones Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness. Unfortunately, free-to-play Star Ocean: Anamnesis, the latest entry, is only on smartphones, and a gacha game to boot. The first of those would be forgivable if not for the second, but as a slot machine for collecting characters from Star…
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My First Hours With The Crew 2 Were Mostly Forgettable
Last night in The Crew 2 I drove from New Orleans to Manhattan in about 20 minutes. Behind the wheel of the free, workmanlike 2016 Mazda MX-5 the game gave me to start, I zig-zagged between other cars because one, I was going 240km/h and they were not; and two, narrowly avoiding collisions netted me…
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It’s A Good Time For A Street Fighter 3 Revival
The recently released Street Fighter 30th Anniversary collection has led me to playing a lot more Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike. I wasn’t expecting this.