A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME
Video Games, Victorian Style
Tag: Adventure Games
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The Fall has been out for a while, but this eerie tale of an AI spacesuit on a desperate quest to save its ailing occupant has now found its way to Nintendo Switch. And it’s still really good.
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A while back, I was curious as to which games have sold the most overall, so I found myself browsing through a list of the best-selling titles of all time. It included the usual suspects – Super Mario, Call of Duty, etc. – but one name jumped out at me: J.B. Harold. I’d never heard…
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I thoroughly enjoyed TellTale’s take on The Walking Dead. The second season lost its way towards the end, with a final episode that dragged on forever towards a tepid conclusion, but overall I loved the characterization and tense atmosphere. But for my money, The Wolf Among Us is even better. For a start, the film-noir-style…
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Given the sheer number of enormous games that have hit consoles this year, you’d be forgiven for letting a few of the smaller more niche titles slip through the cracks. But if you have any interest in the old style of point and click style adventure games, and haven’t already picked up the newly released…
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It was probably about 10 years ago that people were crying out for a return of the Adventure game. Driven by a perception that a bit of creative bankruptcy had perhaps set in, and the release of the stylus-driven Nintendo DS seemingly a perfect fit for the genre, all eyes were turning to the past…
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I’m waving goodbye to my 20′s and to celebrate I’m counting down 30 games from the last 30 years. Join me while I countdown 30 great years of game memories. Gobliiins Gobliiins was a charming point and click adventure puzzler released in 1990 by French Developer Coktel Vision. A charmingly funny game, it doesn’t rely so…
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MTV’s Daria may be long gone, but it’s perfect representation of growing up as a teenager in the late 90’s continues to be the most accurate depiction of that time around. The music, the attitude, the fashion and the general disdain for the cool people, younger people and older people -for humanity basically- viewed through the…
A MOST AGREEABLE PASTIME 