There’s a substantial number of games that I’ve played of late because they were on Gamepass. At first I felt somewhat bad for this, given just how little I paid…
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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
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It’s 2012, the indie renaissance is well underway and the seminal title from thatgamecompany, Journey, is released. It’s not the first game to put you in a big world to…
David Klemke
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It’s been a minute since I’ve gone back to my roots of point and click, pixel art adventure games. Back in my early years of reviews when the 1 per…
David Klemke
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Breakout success tend have an unfortunate effect on the games industry for decades afterwards. Dark Souls, for instance, set us on the path we’re now on today where most action…
David Klemke
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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
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There was a time when big releases were almost a social event unto themselves, a kind of cultural nexus point that drew in all and sundry whose only connection was…
David Klemke
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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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There’s a trap that indie developers often fall into: the one of game length. The trap is laid by that demon which has been haunting the game’s industry for years…
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…