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Tomb Raider: The Verdict
Tomb Raider is out! Before I launch into what I thought of it, I suggest you read my latest Character Select, which is about the new Lara Croft. I have now written nine Character Select articles, two...
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Clementine and existential angst.
The Tomb Raider article wasn't the only thing I've written for GodisaGeek recently. Back in February (gosh, February) I wrote another Character Select piece, this one on little Clementine from The...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 5 - Exploring the Slums
Part 4Hello, and welcome back to the Final Fantasy VII playthrough. Just so you have a sense of scale, I'm now two hours into the game after playing it for five months. This is a 100-hour game, which...
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Goodbye Roger Ebert.
Here is my review of Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory. Like its name, the game is is rambling and incoherent, if colourful.Is that smutty or just incoherent?It also reinforced my dislike of having to...
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Nintendo Hyper 8-bit... Tori Amos?
When you have diverse tastes, it not often that someone puts your favourite things together. Not even on the internet, where entire blogs are dedicated to chronicling video game toilets.So you can...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 6 - The Don's Mansion
Part 5Last time, Aeris and I (well, Cloud. I'm getting into the role-playing aspect of this role-playing game) were on our way to Sector 7 when we were waylaid by a womancatcher wagon all decked out...
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Real Life: The Video Game
I try and keep real life out of this video game blog as much as possible because if real life was so great, I wouldn't spend so much time playing video games.But sometimes real life is great. Even...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 7 - Dropping the Plate
Part 6After last week's picaresque jaunt through Wall Market looking for ways to trick an old mobster into bed, Tifa, Aeris and myself have come back down to earth with a bump. Well, actually more like...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 8 - Shinra HQ
Part 7We've learned from Elmyra that Aeris has been captured by Shinra, who have been after the girl for years on account of her being an "Ancient". We decide to rescue her for reasons of loyalty and...
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Getting past the next (A) level.
Thursday was A-level results day in the UK, which means that 18-year olds across the land will know by now whether or not they've got into their chosen university.It's a good day for some students and...
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Final Fantasy Playthrough Playthrough: Part 9 - Escaping Shinra
Part 8 ~ Part 10In what I hope doesn't turn out to be a Deus Ex Machina, the pickle in which Tifa, Barret, Aeris and Red XIII and I briefly found ourselves in was resolved when a mysterious assailant...
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Violence and Tears: The Troubled Road to Progress
This article contains spoilers for The Last of Us and to a lesser extent, Tomb Raider.Last month, NewStatesman published an excellent article by Sophia McDougall about the inadequacy of the ubiquitous...
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Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam
I went on a whistle-stop tour of South East Asia in May of this year. Because it was such a quick trip, I didn't really do anything that wasn't in the Lonely Planet, and I don't have any stories that...
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Final Fantasy Playthrough: Part 10 - What Happens in Nibelheim Stays in...
 Part 9 ~ Part 11After leaving Midgar, we decide to head for the town of Kalm. On the way, Red XIII, Tifa and myself are accosted by a bike gang. These guys are on choppers, so we can assume that in...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 11 - The Search for Sephiroth
Part 10We don't believe official reports that Sephiroth is dead for a number of reasons.Shinra own the press.Sephiroth disappeared after torching a large amount of incriminating evidence that Shinra...
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Francis "York" Morgan and other things I don't understand
My latest Character Select is an examination of Deadly Premonition's Francis "York" Morgan through the prism of David Lynch. It's pretty spoiler-heavy, so if you haven't played the game and want to,...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 12 - Marching Towards the Costa Del Sol
Part 11We've traced Sephiroth all the way to Junon Harbour, where I've climbed to the top of the rusty Shinra monolith overlooking the waterfront. Not being the stealthy type, I just walk in through...
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Final Fantasy VII Playthrough: Part 13 - Mount Corel, Gold Saucer, and the...
Part 12It seems everywhere we go people are talking about a "man in a black cape" who was there right before us.Why is that? Is there only one black cape on this entire planet?We can only hope that's...
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Can't you just let a story be a story?
"I don't understand this at all. I don't understand any of this. Why does a story have to be a socio-anything? Politics... culture... history... aren't those natural ingredients in any story, if it's...
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Well-Rendered's Games of the Generation #20: Catherine
Catherine, Atlus/Atlus Persona Team (2012)Spoiler alertThe story of a weak-willed man-child who can't be bothered to make decisions and would rather go to the pub, Catherine has an unusual premise for...
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