kotaku game diary
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I Did Not Expect Untitled Goose Game To Trouble My Conscience
It was his last rose. I was waddling around the nice man’s garden in Untitled Goose Game and passed by this meager rose garden, with just one rose pushing above the soil. Maybe he was growing it for his wife. It wasn’t even on my to-do list; I impulsively waddled over, plucked it, shuttled it…
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I’ve Finally Gotten Tired Of Making My Video Game Characters Look Like Boring Slobs
I recently got my hands on Daemon X Machina, the new mech action game for the Nintendo Switch, and I was immediately dazzled — not by the power and might of my giant robot armour, or the weighty action of sci-fi combat — but by how much fun it was to style my mech and…
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Final Fantasy VIII’s Triple Triad Is Why I Love Card Games
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered is finally here, which means I can continue my long and storied history of never actually finishing Final Fantasy VIII because I am too busy playing Triple Triad. It’s a whole thing: I get a copy of Final Fantasy VIII, immediately start playing the in-game card game more than anything else,…
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Control Proves That An Office Building Is The Perfect Setting For A Metroid-Like
Control, a Metroid Prime-like game that takes place inside an impossibly vast US federal government building, is out now. As someone who has been paying the IRS back taxes for a decade, it feels like a game that was made to terrify exactly me. It is also one of the best games I’ve played this…