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  • Shovel Knight Review: Digging for Gold
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    Shovel Knight Review: Digging for Gold

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    The genre of platformers inspired by retro games is a rather crowded one, yet somehow Shovel Knight manages to stand out. How? Because of its authenticity: it knows its heritage, but is designed in such a way that it’s not …
  • Crystal Catacombs Review: Retro Rust
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    Crystal Catacombs Review: Retro Rust

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    Nearly two years ago, Crystal Catacombs blew past its $7,500 Kickstarter goal, going on to collect over $16,000 in funding. Now, after years of development, Crystal Catacombs seeks to deliver players a vintage gaming experience, heavily inspired by Super Metroid …
  • Among the Sleep Review: The Terrible Twos
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    Among the Sleep Review: The Terrible Twos

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    Among the Sleep is an oddly-named game with an even odder premise: a first-person horror game in the vein of the Amnesia series, but played from the perspective of a two-year-old child. That imposes some interesting limitations on movement and view, but it …
  • Transistor Review
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    Transistor Review

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    With Bastion,Supergiant Games proved it doesn't just know how to make a game, but how to think about them. Games tell stories with cutscenes and dialogue because "that's how it's done." New Game+ is a trope because "games just have those now."Reactive narration, story justifications for design tropes: it was clear Supergiant put a great deal of time into thinking about how to make something different with Bastion on top of what was otherwise a fairly standard action-RPG. Oh, and it had fantastic music.Transistor doesn't play to Bastion's strengths - that's one way to put it. You might also say "Transistor doesn't try to copy past glory and past success." You'd probably be right.Instead it's content with being a pretty good cyberpunk-noir-fantasy-mystery-romance-action/turn-based-RPG with great art and zero handholding. If you're into that sort of thing.Oh, and it has fantastic music.