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…
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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…
David Klemke
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The algorithmic ruled world that we find ourselves (and increasingly LLM dominated) has a habit of mirroring our own inbuilt recency bias. This is shown most aptly in algorithm first…
David Klemke
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The release of Dispatch has shaken up some of the industry’s assumptions about episodic releases. After initially being the next big thing in gaming with Telltale absolutely killing it for…
David Klemke
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What do sequels exist for? Many developers carry an aspiration to create something that’s worthy of a sequel and will often lay the groundwork for it with reckless abandon. Of…
David Klemke
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You know how it is when you get into a new genre that you hadn’t really taken note of before. Suddenly a new world is opened to you, one rich…
David Klemke
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There was a pervasiveness to the exhaustion I was feeling about, well about everything, but I was feeling it most acutely when it came to gaming. Seemingly every title I…
David Klemke
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What I really needed was a distraction, something to tide me over for a handful of nights before the mid-March release madness started to overcome me. Seemingly reading my energy…
David Klemke
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The early part of the year is always a weird one for game releases. Most gamers are still working through their post-holiday sale backlog and so a lot of the…