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No More Mercy: Karate Kid Showdown on Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • March 25th, 2019

Just the story of a small town boy who moves to California and learns martial arts.

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Rethinking Action with Devil May Cry 5

By Jeremy Signor • March 20th, 2019

Though very much a Devil May Cry game, 5 hints at a new future for the character action genre.

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Never is that Brief Flash Resented

By Levi Rubeck • March 14th, 2019

When a relationship is sent crashing, the unmoored self can be so easily thrashed upon the rocks—it’s necessary to reaffirm that sense of self, to rejoin that once-blended ego.

Her Lie I Tried to Believe

By Gingy Gibson • March 1st, 2019

Her Lie I Tried to Believe is a shoddy attempt to portray the paranoia and psychopathy of toxic masculinity as something worthy of human pity.

It’s A Scary World: Audition on Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • February 26th, 2019

Orrin Grey watches Audition and finds it just as horrifying as he did 20 years ago.

They Killed the Mechs so that the Pilots Might Live

By Levi Rubeck • February 14th, 2019

Apex Legends is still fresh from the wrapper, but the squad communication, weapons, and range of tactical options already serve up a delectable sushi of hide-and-seek with bullets.

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Event-D

By Gingy Gibson • February 8th, 2019

A picture is worth a thousand words, right? So next time let them do some of the talking.

Now You’re Playing with Potential

By Levi Rubeck • February 7th, 2019

As an early access cyberpunk game, 2084 currently floats on mists of possibility.

Because It’s the ‘90s: Double Dragon on Blu-ray

By Orrin Grey • February 6th, 2019

Orrin Grey watches the glorious mess that is 1994s Double Dragon.

Blue Reflection

By Gingy Gibson • February 1st, 2019

The kids aren’t alright, and that’s ok.

The Stoic Beauty of Matching Three Things

By David Shimomura • January 29th, 2019

Now, it’s Cartoon Network Match Land helping me fill the minutes.

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Crimson Gray

By Gingy Gibson • January 26th, 2019

As problematic as yanderes can be, Crimson Gray did a fantastic job portraying the trope.

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XOXO Droplets

By Gingy Gibson • January 18th, 2019

7 hours of dragging myself through the worst elements of high school that I am never get back.

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Where Root delightfully succeeds is melding the central conceits of territorial control games like Risk with resource management sims like Settlers of Catan, all blended with the exceptional art of illustrator Kyle Ferrin bringing in a whiff of Mouse Guard.

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GRIS: Her Journey

By Jeremy Signor • January 16th, 2019

GRIS wants to be Journey, but ultimately learns the wrong lessons and loses its voice.

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Seiyuu Danshi

By Gingy Gibson • December 21st, 2018

You want to be the world’s best voice actor (and boyfriend)? Then you better work for it.

Six Days of Snow

By Gingy Gibson • December 7th, 2018

Stop trying to make wanting to bang minors romantic.

Fallstreak

By Gingy Gibson • November 30th, 2018

Sometimes the only thing worse than being lonely is realizing exactly how alone you are.

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Fix Me Fix You

By Gingy Gibson • November 23rd, 2018

Fix Me Fix You is an absolute slog of a visual novel which exemplifies the problems inherent in materialistic characters and their relationships.

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The Bleeding Edge

By Megan Condis • November 6th, 2018

The FDA has failed for decades in its duty to oversee medical technologies, with women disproportionately falling victim.

Who Is Mike

By Gingy Gibson • November 2nd, 2018

What does it mean for there to be a “real” version of you?

The Misogyny Industry

By Astrid Budgor • October 19th, 2018

“Can you hear me? They did this.”

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Neighbor

By Gingy Gibson • October 19th, 2018

The biggest mistake you can make while reading Neighbor is harboring expectations that this visual novel will read like other Japanese horror media.

Assassination Nation has Blood in its Teeth

By Amanda Hudgins • October 1st, 2018

The moral of Assassination Nation is that high school boys are terrible and you should kill them.

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Hermes and Gry: A Crooked Plan

By Gingy Gibson • September 28th, 2018

There are bad bosses, and then there are bosses willing to sell your organs to a back alley doctor for potion money. This VN features the latter kind.

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Never Be Clean Again

By Astrid Budgor • September 28th, 2018

“Oh, so society’s to blame …”

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Going Through The Motions of Work in Fortune-499

By Khee Hoon Chan • September 26th, 2018

How does one introduce themselves to a disinterested stranger and exchange suggestions on “honing competitive advantages through collaboration”?

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The Final Day of Spring

By Gingy Gibson • August 31st, 2018

A look into a story about getting to choose your own end and the legacy you leave behind.

So Long, Summer Days

By Gingy Gibson • August 17th, 2018

Some people just aren’t worth your time. So why can’t we cut them off?

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Remothered: Tormented Fathers perpetuates horror’s harmful anti-trans stereotypes

By Bryan Cebulski • August 15th, 2018

Horror about sex and gender shouldn’t be off limits. But Remothered: Tormented Fathers isn’t even about sex and gender.

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Wanted: Dragon

By Gingy Gibson • August 10th, 2018

Why save the kingdom when you could conquer it?

If the Devil Is to Exist in This World, It Cannot Look Like a Devil

By Orrin Grey • July 6th, 2018

Orrin Grey digs up Toho’s “Bloodthirsty Trilogy,” three Japanese vampire films that underscore the influence of Hammer films while showcasing the potential for Japan’s horror film future.

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Don’t Use Cultural Emblems as Cheap Set Pieces

By Gingy Gibson • July 6th, 2018

Woodstock 1969, in contrast, treats the entire festival as a backdrop for a lackluster lesbian love story, ignoring the social, political, and especially artistic aspects of the time that allowed Woodstock to come about and be so memorable in the first place.

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Pink Rage Otome

By Gingy Gibson • June 26th, 2018

There has to be more to a story than dialogue. Pink Rage Otome is what happens when you don’t follow that rule.

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Bunka no Kenkyu: Revival of Queen Leyak

By Gingy Gibson • June 8th, 2018

Pacing matters. Plot matters. Making sure your visual novel doesn’t crash matters. No one told this studio.

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Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome

By Gingy Gibson • June 1st, 2018

A visual novel about friends, fashion, and failing at life.

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Fans Have Spoken, and They Want a Knuckle Sandwich

By Alyse Stanley • May 4th, 2018

When the frenetic gameplay of WarioWare, the dark humor of Fargo, and the aesthetic of Dragon Ball and Pokémon combine, Knuckle Sandwich emerges unscathed from the explosion, sunglasses lowered.

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