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THE LIST
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Next Fest: October 2023
It’s that magical week once again as the floodgates are opened on Steam and we all are collectively drowned in a torrent of demos. Despite the number of games that are already out which I haven’t had time to play, I find it impossible to resist the siren call of seeing what’s on the horizon.…
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Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew – A Pirate’s Treasure
Spoilers for the score at the bottom of this review: Shadow Gambit is nothing short of a creative triumph. It’s a masterclass of game design so thoroughly well considered that I pity any other title that attempts this genre. As a stealth game, as a tactics game, as just a video game in general; Shadow…
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Boy’s Abyss – Tragicomedy
Content Warning: Domestic abuse, suicide, bullying Boy’s Abyss by Ryo Minenami is a manga that fascinates me with how far what it wants to be is separated from what it actually is. Minenami is clearly trying to craft a serious narrative with high stakes and drama about very dark subject matter, but the execution is…
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A Revolving Library: Why I Sell Most Manga
Do you know what Naoki Urasawa’s Monster, Tsutomu Nihei’s Blame!, and Yuu Someya’s Pleasure and Corruption all have in common? They are all manga that I purchased volume-by-volume, then sold as a collection once I finished reading them. It wasn’t because I didn’t like them, Monster is great and Blame! is still Nihei’s best work,…
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Looking Back on WSJ – 2022
I just want you to know that the entire reason this article exists is because I was getting very annoyed trying to find the answer to a simple question. All I wanted to know is what series started in Weekly Shounen Jump in 2022, and it was a whole thing trying to find that. I…
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AI and NFTs Will Not Save Anime
You know, things had been going pretty well for me this week. I just finished Kirby’s Return Dream Land Deluxe, the second Wo Long demo was super fun, and I even managed to get ahead of schedule on some manga I was sent to review. With that all done I was finally going to get…
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The 3 Episode Rule: I Wish You Would Die
I have a mental exercise that I would like you to participate in. Imagine that you are talking to one of your friends (if you don’t have friends imagine that you do) about an anime that you’ve recently dropped. You’ve spent the last few minutes listing your grievances and summarizing to them why you don’t…
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Valkyrie Elysium – Reviewnarok
Out of all the many strange things that Square Enix did in 2022, perhaps the most bizarre was the release of Valkyrie Elysium. Developed by Soleil, this marks the franchise’s first appearance on home consoles in 16 years. While I am not a diehard fan of the series, (I didn’t play Profile or Silmeria until…
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Evil West – The Dissonance of Traversal
Evil West was a game that I had been looking forward to since stumbling across its gameplay trailer at the tail end of June. The promise of a high-octane third person shooter with a robust melee system was all I needed to add it to my Steam wishlist. Having now finished the game I can…
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Cyberpunk Edgerunners – A Review and Analysis
Cyberpunk Edgerunners is a show that’s very interesting to think about. The genre that it’s named after has been around since the early 80s when it was popularized by William Gibson in his excellent novel Neuromancer. I feel that the literary origins of cyberpunk is often overlooked for the media explosion that happened in the…