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First Impressions With Project Warlock 2's Second Chapter

A Quick bit of housekeeping before we begin, the next post is gonna be the Game of the Year recap and next week’s video is the last one of the year. With that out of the way, let’s begin. Now for the regularly scheduled Chicanery. It’s that

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First Impression with Starfield

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Frontier. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, seek out alien artifacts and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before. If I had to describe Starfield’s vibe in one re-appropriated quote, it’d

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First Impressions with Sea of Stars's Early Game

I find it weird that I've never once talked about Chrono Trigger in my five years of writing about games. I didn't go into it because we all know it’s one of the best video games ever. But it does dovetail quite nicely into the

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First Impressions With Final Fantasy XVI's Demo

Well, this is certainly a change of pace around here. My history with Final Fantasy is a weird one. It’s one of those things that’s been constantly around in my life and one that almost everyone I know has strong opinions on, but I don’t have that

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First Impressions With Warhammer 40k Boltgun

Well, well, well. It looks like we’re back at it again in the boomer shooter territory, ey? I do not mind this because I’ve been in a boom-shooty mood lately and what better way to indulge that craving than with Warhammer 40k Boltgun. Developed by Auroch Digital and

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First Impressions With Supplice

Supplice is the product of refinement. Initially beginning life as a Doom Mega WAD, it went the same route as Selaco and became its own fully-fledged game. While not nearly as dramatic as Selaco in regards to changes, Supplice is still the product of 14 years' worth of development

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First Impressions With Ravenswatch

We’ve reached the middle of April and it can only be characterized as “we’re in a holding pattern until Jedi Survivor comes out.” But this relatively slow period has its advantages. Case in point: the release of two games into early access that has me super jazzed: Supplice

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First Impressions With Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty

And now for something completely different. That’s right, we’re taking a look at the opening hours of Team Ninja’s latest outing, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. As someone who likes a lot of Team Ninja’s work with Ninja Gaiden Black, Nioh and Nioh 2, I was eager

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First Impressions With Destiny 2's Season of Defiance

It’s been a week since Lightfall dropped, and the general consensus amongst people I know is that it’s a Beyond Light situation: the campaign was mechanically fun but felt a bit unsatisfactory from a narrative standpoint. While I personally felt like it was more set up for what’

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First Impressions with Hi-Fi Rush

I was going to talk about Dread Templar’s full release today, but then Microsoft and Bethesda had to stealth-drop a new action game that looked rad as fuck last night, so I’m covering that instead while it’s still fresh. So here’s a first impression of Hi-Fi

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First Impressions With Have a Nice Death

Burnout is a real thing. It’s kind of the reason I took the last month off of releasing writing and videos following the Game of the Year post. My vacation lining up with the last two weeks of the year being Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve

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First Impressions With Warhammer 40k Darktide

My familiarity with Warhammer 40k is a passing one at best. I like the Ciaphas Cain novels explicitly because they make the setting palatable for me. Which is to say, by completely taking the piss. And that makes sense because 40k was originally created with a bunch of satirical elements

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First Impressions With Gungrave G.O.R.E

Gungrave G.O.R.E is a PS2-ass PS2 game. I love it because of that. I bring this up because it’s the latest entry in the Gungrave series, a video game series and anime that I thought was Trigun as fuck. Mainly because it turns out that its

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First Impressions With God of War Ragnarok

(Editor's note: We're gonna be discussing some spoilers from the previous game and the first hour or two of Ragnarok, so if you don't want to get spoiled, peace out now.  Now back to the regularly scheduled chicanery.) I have something of a weird

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First Impressions With Somerville

It appears I am once again going outside of my wheelhouse. This week, the game we’re going to look at is Somerville. Somerville is a narrative adventure game developed by Jumpship (founded by Dino Patti, one of Playdead’s co-founders) as their debut game that has big ideas and

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First Impressions With Soulstone Survivors

Soulstone Survivors is possibly the most obsessed I’ve been with an early-access game this side of Hades. Oh yeah, we’re starting off STRONG this week. For people who don't know what the fuck I’m talking about, I’m going to talk about Soulstone Survivors, a