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“NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…” Review

author image by Brandon Perkins | PlayStation 4 Reviews | 0 Comments | 16 May 2021

Replicant is really more than the sum of its parts. The overall experience, from the character development, the devastating and mind-reeling revelations that plot throws at you, and even the new bits of content specially made for this game make it worthwhile.

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“Disco Elysium: The Final Cut” Review

author image by Brandon Perkins | Nintendo Switch PC PlayStation 4 Reviews | 0 Comments | 26 Apr 2021

“Mankind, be vigilant; We loved you.” This was not the first time I had played Disco Elysium. I first played DE back in 2019, when it originally was published for the PC. Back then, DE was a a cult classic…

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“Cyberpunk 2077” Review

author image by Brandon Perkins | Reviews | 0 Comments | 26 Jan 2021

“Transhumanism is about how technology will eventually help us overcome the problems that have, up until now, been endemic to human nature. Cyberpunk is about how technology won’t.”— Stephen Lea Sheppard of RPG.Net (via TVTropes) Much like when I walked…

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Brandon’s Top 10 Games of 2020

author image by Brandon Perkins | Best of 2020 Features | 0 Comments | 26 Dec 2020

…Yeah, so fuck this year right? Seriously. According to historians, the worst year to have been alive in recorded history was 536 AD. A volcano eruption spread a cloud of ash across much of Europe and China, causing temperatures to…

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“13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim” Review

author image by Brandon Perkins | PlayStation 4 Reviews | 0 Comments | 09 Oct 2020

The game I’m reviewing was almost a total failure. I don’t mean the production of the game (it was long, but fruitful). I mean the release. The first weeks of this game’s release in 2019 were a major downturn from…

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Brandon's Top 10 Games of 2019

author image by Brandon Perkins | Best of 2019 Features | 0 Comments | 26 Dec 2019

As this decade comes to a close, we may very well be seeing the end of this gaming generation. With the reveals of both Sony’s and Microsoft’s new consoles, we are now currently living the twilight of the Xbox One…

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"Death Stranding" Review

author image by Brandon Perkins | PlayStation 4 Reviews | 0 Comments | 01 Dec 2019

“The Rope and The Stick, together, are one of humankind’s oldest tools. The Stick is for keeping evil away; The Rope is for pulling good toward us; these are the first friends the human race invented. Wherever you find humans,…

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“Astral Chain” Review

author image by Brandon Perkins | Nintendo Switch Reviews | 0 Comments | 25 Sep 2019

When I was a kid, there was a much-acclaimed studio called Treasure. Treasure was astonishing. They would put out these amazingly well-tuned, well-designed action games that always involved far more detail put into them then so many of their contemporaries….

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“Fire Emblem: Three Houses” Review

author image by Brandon Perkins | Reviews | 0 Comments | 17 Aug 2019

For a few generations of gamers, ‘Nintendo’ is synonymous with video games. Think of all the things that come to mind when that word is spoken: Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda, Pokemon. So many childhoods are filled with these…

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“Anthem” Review

author image by Brandon Perkins | PC PlayStation 4 Reviews Xbox One | 0 Comments | 26 Mar 2019

In the universe of Anthem, it is said that the Gods, called ‘shapers’, used incredible cosmic technologies in order to create the world… only to stop in the middle and leave their labors unfinished. Did they grow bored and leave?…

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“Valkyria Chronicles 4” Review

author image by Brandon Perkins | Console Nintendo Switch PC PlayStation 4 Reviews Steam Xbox One | 0 Comments | 31 Oct 2018

  Japan has produced some of the most inventive games ever developed for the medium, and in the process have also created entire genres that previously didn’t exist. Their devotion to whimsy and the melodramatic has produced everything from adorable…

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