The sophomore instalment in a successful franchise is always a risky one: simply repeating what you did before but more usually earns the ire of the general public, but not…
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David Klemke
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Can you be nostalgic for someone else’s life? That’s a question that kept running through my head as I was playing We are OFK as, to me, it speaks directly…
David Klemke
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So, to preface, I’m a pretty keen homebrewer with a couple years experience under my belt. I got started with it because we have an overabundance of apples from the…
David Klemke
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The gamer community writ large has is becoming more aware of the struggles of game developers. Almost all AAA titles released these days are accompanied by stories of the horrendous…
David Klemke
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I didn’t set out to play a bunch of soulslike games really close to each other; really I didn’t. Thymesia just so happened to fill a gap in my schedule…
David Klemke
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There are two tiers of soulslike games: those made by FromSoftware and everyone else. Many have tried to recreate the essence of those games but, almost inevitably, they all fall…
David Klemke
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In college my teacher for the course of “Literature on the Internet” (which was still a weird thing back in 2001) asked us to perform a simple task: find her…
David Klemke
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I made a rule for myself early on when I started reading reviews: don’t read anyone elses until after I’ve posted my own. The reason for the rule is simple,…
David Klemke
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One of the things I’ve had to come to grips with over the 13 years (!) I’ve been reviewing games is the slow but steady drift in my own preferences…
David Klemke
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Before Annapurna started branding itself as the publisher for the weird and wonderful world of experimental indie titles they really had a hard time breaking through to mainstream. To be…