Lucas White
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Mine is a Mario Party household. Over the years my wife and child have enjoyed many nights of minigame-fueled board game chaos. Things always got heated, especially as we taught our young one to handle things not going his way. The grown-ups needed a refresher on those lessons as well,...
Atelier, Gust’s long-running item synthesis RPG series, reached new heights with the debut of Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout in 2019. Gust used that momentum to sincerely attempt to reinvent what Atelier is in systems and scale, leading to the massive and successful Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist...
Re-releasing a classic game isn’t as easy as you might think. People talk about preservation, but that’s largely solved. You can just download a ROM. Hell, Final Fantasy Tactics, subject of longtime fan demand, was a ROM you could pay for if you had a PlayStation device, for years. But...
As I pushed my way through Baby Steps over 11 or so of god’s own hours, I asked myself a few questions. What does it mean to feel accomplished in a game? What value is there in pushing beyond one’s own perceived limits for the sake of finishing something? Can...
The PlayStation Portable was an iconic homestead for niche RPGs, cementing the likes of Nippon Ichi Software as small but permanent fixtures of video games. Cladun started there, a series that combined retro gaming aesthetics with the enduring fixtures of contemporary, premium handheld gaming. Cladun struggled a bit to survive...
Sometimes a game simply says what it is on the box, delivers on its premise, and gets the heck out of Dodge. That was my exact experience with LEGO Voyagers, a new co-op puzzle adventure from Annapurna Interactive and Light Brick Studio. It’s short and sweet, sticking around just as...
Too Kyo Games and its partners have been pumping games out at an impressive clip, with new stories from Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka taking that original over the top, “death game” framework and finding new ways to apply that energy. Earlier this year, Hundred Line -Last Defense Academy- made waves...
It’s kind of weird how infrequent it feels to see a big, 3D platformer, especially ones not made by Nintendo. In the same year as Donkey Kong Bananza, you’d think the runway would stay as clear as usual. But that’s not the case, as The Knightling has appeared from developer...
Before anything else, it feels like a miracle to simply download and play a new Super Robot Wars on my PlayStation 5. No importing, no additional accounts, no region-locked DLC. It’s a wonderful thing.
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Being able to revisit history in such a profound way as I did this past week is beyond rare. As a teenager in the mid-2000s, I was the perfect age to be online and embedded in gaming during ground zero of what we consider “indie” games. Games like Cave Story...
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Being able to revisit history in such a profound way as I did this past week is beyond rare. As a teenager in the mid-2000s, I was the perfect age to be online and embedded in gaming during ground zero of what we consider “indie” games. Games like Cave Story...
When it comes to beat ‘em ups, there’s a lot of history, a lot of convention, and a lot of room still to innovate and play around. Ra Ra Boom has looked like an intriguing example of experimentation in that space for a few years now, and I was excited...
