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Stop Calling Games ‘Metroidvania’
32Let’s talk about one of my least favourite words in the video game lexicon: metroidvania. A portmanteau combining the video game titles Metroid and Castlevania, it takes two made-up video game titles that are pretty cool and evocative on their own and inelegantly mashes them into something worse. And now, that word is one we…
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I Get The Mobile Collectible Card Game Genre Now, But I Can’t Afford It
Look at that. There I am, in second place overall in Aeria Mobile’s Pirate Maidens, one of those newfangled mobile collectible card games I’ve been having so much trouble dealing with lately. After a week spent dominating the female anime pirate collecting game I can safely say that I understand the genre intimately. I just…