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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #1: Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception
Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Sony Computer Entertainment/Naughty Dog (2009)I probably should have written a proper article for this post. It would have been nice to reward your patience, at the very...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 14 - Nanaki, Vincent and Cid
Part 13Â Having recently survived a theme park prison colony, we're all a bit tired so decide to pay a visit to Red XIII's laid-back home town of Cosmo Canyon. Cosmo Canyon is a bit like a collection of...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 15 - Temple and City of the Ancients
Part 14Having rescued Cid from a life of regret (luring away with the promise of almost certain death), we find out that SHINRA are pursuing Sephiroth to the Temple of the Ancients. They've got a head...
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Part 16: S*** gets real, Cloud loses his s***
Part 15Aeris is dead, Sephiroth got away, and I'm having an identity crisis.This was brought on by my recent blackouts, hallucinations, out-of-body experiences and a worrying tendency towards...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 17 - Tifa takes control
Part 16Sephiroth has unleashed Weapon, SHINRA have captured my friends and I'm tripping out at the bottom of a crater. It looks like I'll be there for a while, so perspective shifts to Tifa.Tifa is...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 18 - Over to you, Cid
Part 17Cloud is lost in the Lifestream, a giant supernatural beast is on the loose, Aeris and Sephiroth are still dead and missing respectively and a meteor is about to collide with the planet. But the...
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The numbers game
I recently listed my top ten games on my tumblr blog following a nomination from Stella. Because my tumblr is mostly visual I added a set of ten images to accompany the list, and saw that most of the...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 19 - Cloud returns, kinda
 Part 18After a nerve-wracking few weeks that have seen Tifa and then Cid try their hand at leadership while Cloud suffered a mental breakdown, fell into the Lifestream and took a journey through his...
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Dual Wielding: Autobiography of a Fangirl
I bang on about Tomb Raider a lot because this is a video game blog, but Lara Croft actually shares the main plinth in my own personal Hall of Fandom with another 90s icon, Tori Amos.This is why my...
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The Banner Saga, and living for the now
Here is a fact about me that will surprise absolutely no-one: I prefer winter to summer.Even though it's only February, I am already hiding from the lengthening days in the chilly embrace of The Banner...
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Lara in my pocket: Tomb Raider on Android review
Tomb Raider on Android is 99p. If you are able to play the game at all it's because you've already spent at least £200 on a phone, so I would only recommend against buying it if you don't have time to...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 20 - Diamond Weapon
Part 19"Diamond Weapon"? Has Final Fantasy VII gone gangsta?Before we find out, a recap. Things just keep going from bad to worse. Not only is Sephiroth still on the loose, but Meteor is still hurtling...
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Mad Max: Fury Road, and doing the right bloody thing
Normally I make an effort not to publish articles that do nothing more than echo the prevailing wisdom of the internet, but I'm going to make an exception for Mad Max: Fury Road because this...
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E3 Roundup!
It’s been several years since I looked forward to E3.  The launch of the current console generation has been tough on everyone, and the budgets of AAA games confine the most creative and risky projects...
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Narrative in Her Story, The Stanley Parable, Gone Home and Papers, Please
I initially set up Well-Rendered to discuss narrative in games, so it seems remiss not to talk about a handful of recent favourites, which are to varying extents experiments in interactive...
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Willy Wonka and The Horror Factory
Spoiler warning: This post contains spoilers for It Follows, Body Snatchers and Under the Skin.General warning: This post is about horror movies. It's not explicit, but does contains some...
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Lara Croft GO and Hitman GO review: More please.
I presume that mansion's got a hefty mortgage, because since she stopped selling Lucozade, Lara Croft has needed a part-time job. Previous extracurricular projects in the fallow years between major...
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The Creation of a World
At 8, I came close to failing an English exam because one of the questions was too exciting. I diligently began by reading through the entire paper, but was immediately derailed by the final...
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A walk into the abyss: Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
Spoiler warning for Everybody's Gone to the Rapture!I'm pretty nosy. When I go to people's houses, my attention is divided between the conversation and the mantlepiece as I scrutinise the family photos...
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Uncharted 4: A Thief's End - Using reality to deliver the ultimate fantasy
The following article contains spoilers for all 4 Uncharted games.Many story-driven games use fantastical or other-worldly settings to make the player reflect upon real life, but the Uncharted series...
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I have made a game!
I've made a game with Twine. It's called Re-Entry, and you can play it for free in your browser by downloading it from the Interactive Fiction Database.The rest of the post is about what I was trying...
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Night in the Woods: Small town blues
The following post contains spoilers for Night in the Woods.I'm glad I made Re-Entry before I played Infinite Fall's Night in the Woods because if I hadn't, I'd have been pretty disheartened. Like...
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Fallen London Exceptional Story: Steeped in Honey
It brings me great joy to announce that I am the author of Steeped in Honey, this month's Exceptional Story for Failbetter Games' Fallen London. Behold, the woman at the story's heart!To find out who...
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Fallen London Exceptional Story: The Murgatroyd Formula
My second Exceptional Story for Failbetter Games'Â Fallen London, The Murgatroyd Formula, is out now! In it, you'll embroil yourself in a family feud, track down a moon-milk dealer and orchestrate the...
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Fallen London Exceptional Story: Written in the Glim
If you are finding current heatwave in real London tiresome (THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN), might I suggest you visit Fallen London instead? There is no sun there.While you're there, find...
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