Pixel art graphics have been a mainstay of the indie gaming scene for decades now but the aesthetics of other eras, where that was still the prominent art style, are…
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David Klemke
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The realizations I’ve come to over the years about what reviewing a game really means has been illuminating and humbling. There was me, some 16 years ago thinking that reviewing…
David Klemke
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Maybe I was hungry when I stumbled across I Can Only Speak Doner as it’s not the kind of game you’d usually see me gravitating to. It’s also possible that…
David Klemke
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The title of this review requires some explaining. Not just to give you the definition of the word I’ve used (you could Google that in a heartbeat) but why it…
David Klemke
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Housemarque really tapped into something with Returnal. On paper it really shouldn’t work: a bullet hell third person shooter roguelike? I mean with that many genre descriptors it should be…
David Klemke
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There are not many games that can sell me on just the concept alone. To be sure there’s a novelty aspect to it, something which is certainly overvalued by long…
David Klemke
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I was watching a couple videos today from the State of Unreal which showed of some of the upcoming tech and some of the games that will be based on…
David Klemke
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When I first started reviewing games I was focused on trying to distill objective quality. That meant focusing on quantifiable things like visuals, gameplay mechanics, bugs/glitches/game breaking interactions and all…
David Klemke
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There feels like there’s a kind of cultural undercurrent that surfaced some time ago that’s driven a desire for no/low-conflict experiences. Initially I didn’t think it was a widespread phenomenon…
David Klemke
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There’s an opinion I’ve shared to many unwilling participants that centers firmly on the movie Inside Out; you know the movie that’s the pinnacle evolution of Pixar’s core narrative theme…