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Whereas epic stories, stylish characters, and breathtaking cinematics are now the norm, the concept of carving your own path in a mysterious world is much harder to come by nowadays.","2025-03-25T14:23:18.720569-04:00","2025-03-25T15:24:23.008398-04:00",{"id":157,"logo":172,"name":173,"slug":174,"tags":19,"bluesky":19,"twitter":175,"youtube":19,"facebook":19,"mastodon":19,"muckrack":19,"claimed_at":19,"description":176,"website_url":177,"score_format":78,"average_score":79,"default_timezone":48,"last_review_date":19,"stats_updated_at":49,"headquarters_city":19,"news_editor_email":19,"platforms_covered":19,"claimed_by_user_id":19,"reviews_this_month":17,"active_authors_count":17,"headquarters_country":19,"reviews_editor_email":19,"editor_in_chief_email":19,"published_authors_count":17,"published_reviews_count":17},"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FVideo-Chums.jpg","Video Chums","video-chums","VideoChums","Video Chums brings you great video game reviews and fun top 10 lists for new and retro video games.","https:\u002F\u002Fvideochums.com\u002F",{"id":179,"game_id":5,"outlet_id":180,"author":181,"original_score":63,"normalized_score":47,"review_url":188,"review_date":189,"summary":190,"created_at":191,"updated_at":191,"author_id":182,"last_edited_at":191,"outlet":192},46762,67,{"id":182,"bio":19,"name":183,"avg_score":184,"outlet_id":19,"created_at":185,"profile_id":19,"updated_at":186,"claim_token":19,"article_count":187,"claimed_by_user_id":19},4065,"Adam Ducker",62.857142857142854,"2025-01-19T09:23:15.548301-05:00","2025-01-19T09:28:27.114221-05:00",7,"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.purexbox.com\u002Freviews\u002Fxbox-one\u002Fstranger_of_sword_city","2016-03-23","Stranger of Sword City is an extremely solid dungeon crawling RPG. 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