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Author: Zach Davis

  • The Witness – Drawing Conclusions

    The Witness – Drawing Conclusions

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    2016 has been rad so far, right? With Pony Island, Oxenfree, and now, serious Wow This Is Already Game of the Year Material, The Witness, we’ve been doing pretty well for ourselves.

    I’ve had the game for less than a week, but I’m pretty comfortable in calling The Witness a puzzle classic along the lines of Braid, Fez, Antichamber, and Portal. It’s really that great, and I’ve barely seen a quarter of it. Though it feels similar to those games, The Witness never seems like it’s aping any one of them, and surprisingly feels like the Brand New Thing I always hoped it could be. The puzzles expand in ways that are at once brilliant and natural, and I kind of wish I was just playing more of it right now to see what they could possibly surprise me with next. (more…)

  • 2015 Reflections and 2016 Predictions

    2015 Reflections and 2016 Predictions

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    What’s coming in 2016? A lot, actually.

    Here’s the post where we look at all of the stuff coming out this year and realize that, wow, there are actually still good things coming. As I compiled the list for that catastrophe you can see above, I couldn’t believe how many games were scheduled for the next twelve months.

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  • Pony Island – My Little Phony

    Pony Island – My Little Phony

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    Pony Island is a game that you’ll want to play or watch for yourself before you see too much about it. Even if you’re not typically spoiler averse, this really is a thing you’ll want to see unfold for yourself. It’s a game about faking you out at every turn, and tricking you into seeing limitations where they don’t exist. Did you like Frog Fractions? Alright, I’ve already said too much.

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  • Here’s Every Game I Played in 2015

    Here’s Every Game I Played in 2015

    It’s dumb, but I still love keeping track of all this. If you ever check out the Games of 20xx on the front page, it’s a list of every single thing I played that year. I update it every time I play anything, which probably is evidence of a deeper problem, but I think it’s super cool to have as a refresher of what I was into. I played about 270(ahh!!!!) games last year. A bunch of them were neat. (more…)

  • Game of the Year 2016: #07-#01 – That Was Taking Too Long

    Game of the Year 2016: #07-#01 – That Was Taking Too Long

    That was really going slowly wasn’t it? Something something kill your darlings. I really like doing the individual posts, but sometimes real life impedes the progress, and I’m really just ready to start writing about things from this year now. So…let’s speed this up a bit.

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  • Game of the Year 2015: #08 – Splatoon

    Game of the Year 2015: #08 – Splatoon

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4TvmBuXu1w

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    Just go listen to that.

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    Why are you still here.

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