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Yay for Andromeda! I just got my PS4 in the mail today and that game will be arriving soon (yes, it was one of the first two games I bought for my awesome new console... go figure). I hope I’ll have time to enjoy it over Christmas break or so.

I’ve lived in Europe where they just factor in a tip for the staff into your bill and take it out of the customer’s hands. I don’t actually know what the wage situation is over there but what I always heard is that “they add a tip” onto the bill (sort of like how sales tax is already rolled into the sticker price you…

For some reason, your take on Knack reminds me of what a lot of people said about Remember Me, although I actually kind of liked it. I guess I am not much into brawlers, so I didn’t feel as irritated by what many people flagged as an infuriatingly sluggish combo system. I loved the look, sound and story, and the…

You know, I played 15 hours of Andromeda when it came out and I thought it was fine. (I just stopped because I didn’t have time for such a big game at that time... and also my laptop wasn’t completely up to the task.) Andromeda compares quite favorably to the original Mass Effect, for example, and since later games in…

I have to say, given the ending of Legacy where we have that typical moment of “Well... I guess I’m a ghost detective now... Let’s go.”, I was definitely startled when Unbound started on a subtitle reading “New York, 1973”. Besides, the focus on Lauren’s story in the first one was so heavily defined by her…

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Looks to me like a sad face crying and saluting with their left hand.

Yep, definitely those 4 guys were the worst. (Later Internet research shows that I correctly guessed what I would have to do to distinguish them in that chapter, but couldn’t be bothered.) Also, the two brothers... and a couple of random guys from below decks. Occupation, means of death and killer were no problem, it…

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Thank you for this very timely comment! I was just thinking of picking up a game for the Switch that we could play as a family, including not only the two kids but my notoriously video-game-averse wife (the last one she and I ever got into was Rabbids Go Home on the Wii, like 10+ years ago), and Overcooked was at the…

First of all, I love your tale of playing Dark Souls on the train, Clayton. Playing on mute because you can’t find your headphones. Truly, you are history’s greatest monster.

My wife and I put this album on loop on Spotify the day it came out (yes I am going to actually buy it now), and I’m still not completely sure. “Spacious” is right, the production is a lot sparser than the other album we have (“Robyn”, which I adore)... it somehow sounds a little more sugary in a way I don’t totally…

All throughout the rest of the country, such as Montreal.

There were zombie Nazis in South Park: The Stick of Truth, so they could have gone that route too.

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Not that this is the linguistic hill I really want to die on (e.g. by taking a grammatical knife to the neck), but with puts a knife to, it’s a threat— the knife is right there, hostage-style, but hasn’t cut yet— while takes a knife to implies the full action of putting the knife on the neck and cutting. Seems more…

Agreed. There does seem to be a bit of plot going on, like with the weird treasure thing that seems to be the cause of so much trouble (I am only 1/4 through the game), but this is really not about characters and seems even less emotionally touching than Papers Please, oddly enough. I think part of it is that you are…

When phrased that way, yes, but with the added of phrase in “takes a knife to the neck of stealth games”, the interpretation is as intended. Sort of like “taking a sledgehammer to genre conventions” or whatever.

What Have You Finished This Week?