Tag: games
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You Cannot Run from It: A Review of Sword of Destiny
After reading The Last Wish back in 2022, while deployed to Kuwait, I fell in love with Sapkowski’s writing! I had my share of laughs and wonders with his short stories. Walking through the desert terrain of the base while reading the book has left me fond memories. I fell in love with it! It’s…
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Fairy Tales in Fragments: A Review of The Last Wish
I have just finished Andrzej Sapkowski’s Sword of Destiny and wanted to write a review. But then I remembered Sword of Destiny is the first book of The Witcher series. And I read it after Sapkowski’s second book, The Last Wish, like other readers. Why? In a fan-translated 1993 interview, shared on Reddit, Andrzej Sapkowski…
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The Gacha Becomes a Goddess; or, The Transcendence of Nikke
Intro Zenith This is it, ladies and gentlemen. This is the zenith of gacha design. This is where developers take years of experience from previous projects to make this. A paradigm of what gachas ought to be! Fun, escape, and excellent storytelling! This is where writing, dialogue, and voice acting sounds organic and charming with…
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The Gacha as a Child; or, The Sacrifice and Remembrance of Destiny Child
I Intro Continuing the gacha trilogy, my journey with the genre truly began with the game Destiny Child. I mentioned previously I played Fire Emblem, Fate Grand Order, and Girls’ Frontline, and they were all fine games. But Destiny Child was THE first gacha that I invested time in. Just not money. I remember seeing…
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Gacha: A Game, a Vice, a Problem, and a Proposal
Preface This was supposed to be a Goddess of Victory: Nikke review and analysis originally. But after spending nearly a month going down a rabbit hole and writing about the limited-time events, the game that preceded Nikke, and the gacha industry it thrives in, I was not satisfied with the end-result of over 100 pages.…
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Why I Won’t Be Playing Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater
If you’re like me, a kid born in the early 90s who saw the evolution of video games from the 2D realm that soon seeped into the 3D realm, who experienced a cultural impact on movies, music, books, and other arts, and who witnessed the dot-com boom of the late 90s and early 2000s, you’re…
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I Tried Battlefield 6 Open Beta… and I’m Not Impressed
I. Not a Good Start I just want to be clear that whenever I get into a game, I NEVER, EVER, EVER want to walk away hating it. EVER! And I’m not saying that Battlefield 6 Open Beta was something that I hated, nor is it a god-awful product. I just think that there’s WAY…
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