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…
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David Klemke
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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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The gamer community writ large has is becoming more aware of the struggles of game developers. Almost all AAA titles released these days are accompanied by stories of the horrendous…
David Klemke
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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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In college my teacher for the course of “Literature on the Internet” (which was still a weird thing back in 2001) asked us to perform a simple task: find her…
David Klemke
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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…
David Klemke
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Gotta admit, before playing Hades I wasn’t super into the isometric hack and slash styled games at all. In my head they were too close to the bullet hell genre…
David Klemke
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The Warhammer 40K universe is so rich with lore I don’t think we’ll ever see an end to new experiences being built from it. Indeed whilst I was aware of…
David Klemke
4 Min Read
Ever since I played Auralux all those years ago I’ve been keenly interested in what I like to call “essence” games. They are, as their name would imply, extremely stripped…
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