Rare is the opportunity to play a game back to back with its sequel. Quite often there’s a long period between them, your memories of its predecessor fade and your…
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David Klemke
5 Min Read
Caution: disengage brain before proceeding. Or at least, that’s what I tell everyone to do when playing any of the Call of Duty games. These are not meant to be…
David Klemke
6 Min Read
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…
David Klemke
4 Min Read
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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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
6 Min Read
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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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…
David Klemke
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I fucking did it; I got gud. You see, there’s always this trepidation when it comes to a new soulsborne game: is this the one, the game, which finally breaks…
David Klemke
10 Min Read
Oh boy, I thought I knew what it was like to be short on time, but the last month has shown me what it is truly to have zero time…
David Klemke
5 Min Read
Every so often I stumble across a game that feels like it came from a previous era. Sometimes this is a conscious choice, driven by a desire to evoke the…