The power of nostalgia is undisputed but it’s also a trap that far too many game developers have fallen into. There’s been so many remakes, demakes and other attempts to…
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David Klemke
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History loves to repeat itself in the oddest ways. Here we are, some 5 years after the release of the original Hades and I find myself in a very similar…
David Klemke
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It finally dawned on me that the reason I’m drawn to Roguelikes is that they give me the thing that many games have taken away: the feeling of being overpowered….
David Klemke
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Does anyone remember The Last Guardian? In that game you’re put in charge of an AI companion that you have to wrangle into doing stuff so you can solve puzzles…
David Klemke
4 Min Read
Early 2000s, 1980s cars, music festivals. If I didn’t know better I would’ve guessed the developers of Keep Driving had rifled through my Facebook post history and decided to make…
David Klemke
4 Min Read
It seems I’m something of a sucker for a good indie dev story. So when I came across this post on /r/IndieGaming I figured why not give it a shot;…
David Klemke
4 Min Read
Sometimes I get ahead of myself, wanting to preserve as much of the going-in-blind experience so I don’t build up expectations about the experience. Most of the time it works,…
David Klemke
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Everyone has that game which defined, for them, the core of many games that came after it. DOOM for FPS, Warcraft for RTS and for this old reviewer anything that…
David Klemke
7 Min Read
Some things just tickle your dopamine receptors just right. In the past I’ve avoided bullet hell games, almost certainly because I’ve been absolutely terrible at them. But that changed back…
David Klemke
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Of the many great lines that came out of the American version of the Office was the one from Andy Bernard: “I wish there was a way to know you’re…
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