Nick Mangiaracina
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Maybe it’s a bit surprising we’ve taken so long to get to a The Lord of the Rings style life sim, but Tales of the Shire is finally here. Players take on the role of a hobbit in the burgeoning village of Bywater as it seeks to become an official...
Maybe I like racing games? I signed up to review Wheel World because it looked like an interesting game with a bizarre story, and I thought Nidhogg was pretty darn good. I ended up getting an open-world racing game and was disappointed for about eight seconds. While I was hoping...
Most known as a manga and second as an anime, KONAMI has taken it upon themselves to make a video game out of EDENS ZERO, the second of Hiro Mashima’s works to make the jump into gaming. Woefully, like Fairy Tale 2, EDENS ZERO has an immense amount of source...
Winston obviously had something important go on in his past. He has space posters all over his messy apartment, letters from various governmental entities, and he spends lots of time building rockets on his own. Unfortunately, we live in the United States, and that means we need a job to...
If you could grant wishes, where would your boundaries for wishes lie? Would you grant any wish within your power? How do you feel about changing someone’s heart or their own dreams and wishes? Many Nights a Whisper put me in a contemplative trance for just over an hour. As...
When I first booted up Tape 1 of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage, Dontnod Montreal’s latest entry into Dontnod’s already stellar catalog, my expectations were a little high. These types of narrative experiences, essentially Choose Your Own Adventure movies, hit really well for me. I had always planned on it...
I’m surprised I’m not getting sick of these low quality-of-life improvement RPG remasters getting ported to modern hardware like Lunar Remastered Collection. I like playing them on the console of my choosing, and I like that I can get achievements for them and play them on my couch. That rules!...
I have no nostalgia for PC-88 visual novel games. I grew up at the perfect time to play them but, alas, I’m just some silly American rube. My background comes from King’s Quest and Wolfenstein, I didn’t have access to the NEC 8-bit home computer device. Back then, I didn’t...
Swann sits in her car begrudgingly listening to her mother drone on about how she never comes to visit. It’s unlikely anything is getting through, Swann has something a little more pressing on her mind. As she hangs up frustrated with her mother, a feeling I can relate to all...
Mysteries, individual cases, and the overarching story are both exciting and satisfying. I was pretty upset by where the story went but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense. Even just replaying the opening scene, I was immediately shown the breadcrumbs for what the story would...
And if you’re like me and you decide to think too much about what’s happening on screen, one of the objectives in every single level is to simply do nothing. In fact, you can just leave the game running if you prefer and our protagonist will simply wait, as they’re...
Now, I’m conflicted. I dig Tales of Graces f and the Remastered version offers some very nice quality-of-life features. And truthfully, if we go back to the original Wii release and then look at the Remastered version, it’s a night and day difference. I refuse to be a fence sitter,...
