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Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE. Tagged with: Final Fantasy. Baten Kaitos letters: Finale. Comments Off on Baten Kaitos letters: Finale. Tagged with: Baten Kaitos. The wages of Sin. Comments Off on The wages of Sin. Tagged with: Final Fantasy. Comments Off on Breaking the Spiral. Tagged with: Final Fantasy. The Witcher 3: Blood & Wine. Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE. On Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir. On Dark Souls 3. Character Action Games (3). Cinematic Action Games (14). Critical Thinking Compilation (4). July 25, 2016.
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The Invisible Hands » Ludonarratology
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Officially, the Sheik built it, and if one accepts Great Man historiography perhaps it’s even true. A person more dedicated to the facts would say that Dubai was built by slaves. Spec Ops: The Line. Would have you believe that nobody built this Dubai, that it developed on its own, and nobody can be blamed. It’s a lie, of course. Yager built Dubai. Decisions built Dubai. Captain Walker rationalizes the crimes that he commits by insisting that Konrad’s deeds made them inevitable. Spec Ops: The Line. I also...
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The Witcher 3: Blood & Wine. Open World Action Games. Status: Complete Most Intriguing Idea: Contrasting Geralt’s ideals directly with chivalry Best Design Decision: Colors! Tagged with: The Witcher. Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE. Tagged with: Final Fantasy. Tagged with: Odin Sphere. The Witcher 3: Blood & Wine. Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE. On Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir. On Dark Souls 3. Character Action Games (3). Cinematic Action Games (14). Critical Thinking Compilation (4). Open World Action Games (23).
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Baten Kaitos Letters 4 » Ludonarratology
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Baten Kaitos Letters 4. Immediately restores the player’s agency, lost to Kalas, as you join Xelha. Without you, the story cannot continue. You find Xelha trapped in the Imperial Fortress with Meemai, and it is only through your intervention that she finds the strength to blow up the door of her cell (wait, what? Can be fed by the respective continents. Each visit to the Cracks hearkens us back once again to each continent’s theme , matching it to a hero from our party. Sure, Gibari, whatever you say.
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Completed. Unlike Billy Joel, I lit the fire. Armor doesn’t really work anymore. Really, just the main idea of the way souls still work. Armor doesn’t really work anymore. As I mentioned in the previous post,. Tries to push its players into a similar style of combat but fails to pull, and feels much like a lesser game as a result. The key here is the behavior of “Poise”, a stat that is built by wearing heavy armor. Heavier armor makes dodging (the keystone of. But I never felt any doubt as to whether I c...
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An Unambitious Order » Ludonarratology
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If you have heard anything about. Wolfenstein: The New Order. And several other games I have loved. Admittedly, I’m in the lucky position of being able to spend $60 without much regret on a game I don’t value. It actually rather pleased me that. Was so short, because it did so little with the time it had. Gears of War 2. Where the character of the action seems at odds with the narrative surrounding it. In most of its segments. Also lacks even the modest amount of active characterization that. Puts into i...
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Your Critic is in Another Castle: Win, Lose, or Fail
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Your Critic is in Another Castle. Wednesday, September 21, 2011. Win, Lose, or Fail. A bunch of gaming writers have recently cycled back around to one of the most foundational questions of our art. No matter what perspective each of us prefers, no matter which lens each of us uses, down at the bottom there's a single question even more important than the perennial argument of "Are games art? Our core issue is this: what are. Michael Abbott over at The Brainy Gamer. A few paragraphs later, he continues:.