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Category Archive: From The Armchair

From The Armchair: The Rare Luxury of Playing Video Games

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In which I bring exciting news, and wax lyrical about the wonderful Spiritfarer.

Lewis Packwood 15 August 2022 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: 2019 Has Defeated Me

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I give up. There are too many games. Who has time for all this?

Lewis Packwood 12 December 2019 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: 2019 Is The Year I Beat My Backlog

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This is it. I’m doing this. Within the next few months, the slate is being wiped clean.

Lewis Packwood 28 January 2019 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Christmas Game Frenzy

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Yoku’s Island Express! Tomb Raider! Inside! Firewatch! Batman: Enemy Within! And more! I certainly got through a lot of games this Christmas.

Lewis Packwood 4 January 2019 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: I Know What I Like… And I Know Which Games I’ll Never Enjoy

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One thing that helps to thin out the backlog is sticking to just the genres you enjoy.

Lewis Packwood 24 December 2018 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: The Games of 2018 that Got Away

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2018 was an amazing year for games, but there’s only so much time to play them all. Here are the ones I wish I’d had a chance to try.

Lewis Packwood 11 December 2018 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Welcome To The World Of VR

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PlayStation VR has entered The Manor, and it’s flippin’ amazing.

Lewis Packwood 26 November 2018 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: It Gets Better After The First 15 Hours

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Sunless Sea and Assassin’s Creed Odyssey could do with picking up the pace a bit – we don’t all have endless time to kill.

Lewis Packwood 10 October 2018 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Metroidvania Marathon

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I’ve spent most of my life wishing there were more games like Super Metroid, and now there’s a ton of them. Bring it on.

Lewis Packwood 12 February 2018 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Bye Bye Baron

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‘Tis a sad day, for Baron Richenbaum Fotchenstein is leaving us. Which begs the question, who on earth is going to review all the scary games now he’s gone?

Lewis Packwood 16 January 2018 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: 2017 Achievements Unlocked!

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As the dying embers of 2017 fall into the grate and 2018 roars into life, now is a good time to reflect on the achievements of the past year.

Lewis Packwood 1 January 2018 From The Armchair, Opinions

From The Armchair: Missing Out

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What ho, chums! Well, I’ve had a bit of disappointment this week. I’ve got a press pass for […]

Lewis Packwood 22 September 2017 From The Armchair, Opinions, Uncategorized

From The Armchair: Accidental JRPG July

I only just found out about JRPG July, and it turns out I’m already participating in it – […]

Lewis Packwood 18 July 2017 From The Armchair, The Year of Zelda

The unheard message of The Witness

Today I’m going to talk to you about The Witness again. I spoke very briefly about it once […]

Virtuanaut 1 July 2017 Editorial, From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Stealth, How I Hate Thee

What ho, chums! I’ve been thinking of giving my Xbox 360 the old heave ho for a while […]

Lewis Packwood 20 June 2017 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Fire Emblem FTW

What ho, chums! First of all, a big thanks to everyone who has contacted me about writing for […]

Lewis Packwood 24 April 2017 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Old Man Lucius

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What ho, chums! Friends, I’m growing old. As I near the end of my fourth decade on this […]

Lewis Packwood 24 November 2016 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: The No Man’s Sky Plateau

What ho, chums! I’ve finally reached what I suppose is the No Man’s Sky plateau: I’ve maxed out […]

Lewis Packwood 7 November 2016 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Getting Mobile

One consequence of getting sucked in by Pokemon Go is that I’ve ‘rediscovered’ mobile gaming, to an extent […]

Lewis Packwood 27 October 2016 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Twin Peaks Revisited

What ho, chums! This week I was excited to read about the new game Virginia – or rather […]

Lewis Packwood 28 September 2016 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Breezing Through The Backlog

The traditional ‘summer games drought’ comes as something of a relief for those, like I, who are imbued […]

Lewis Packwood 18 August 2016 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Platformer Purge

After realising the other week that actually I don’t really like 2D platformers very much, no matter their […]

Lewis Packwood 5 July 2016 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Batman Revisited

As I said a while back, I’ve been getting back into Batman recently. I’ve read a few more […]

Lewis Packwood 2 June 2016 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Back To Batman

The other day, I took Merriweather Jr down to the local library for ‘Bookbugs’, a sort of pre-school […]

Lewis Packwood 14 May 2016 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Bring On The Scares

What-ho, chums! It’s been an inordinate amount of time since our last tete-a-tete, but you can blame this […]

Lewis Packwood 28 October 2015 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Say Hello To Merriweather Jr

What-ho, chums! You may well have noticed my conspicuous absence from this illustrious online tome over the past […]

Lewis Packwood 27 June 2015 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Sega Sentimentality

What-ho, chums! So, Ms. D’s two lovely sisters came a-visiting recently, and we ended up chatting about their […]

Lewis Packwood 14 May 2015 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Affordable Fun

What ho, chums! Well, what a wonderful week I’ve had. I downloaded Affordable Space Adventures for the Wii […]

Lewis Packwood 16 April 2015 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: The Shorter The Better

What-ho, chums! Since my last missive back in January, events have continued apace. The expected arrival of Merriweather […]

Lewis Packwood 9 April 2015 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Bye Bye Club Nintendo

What ho, chums! So no doubt you’ve already heard the news by now: Club Nintendo is to close […]

Lewis Packwood 30 January 2015 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: Leaving Things Unfinished

What ho, chums! After struggling to enjoy Assassin’s Creed III, I finally decided to permanently shelve the game […]

Lewis Packwood 6 January 2015 From The Armchair

From The Armchair: False Starts and Fires

What ho, chums! As we hurtle down the final furlong of the year, I for one will be […]

Lewis Packwood 24 December 2014 From The Armchair

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