“FAST RMX” Review
by Patrick MifflinIntended or otherwise, Shin’en Multimedia’s FAST Racing League has quietly become Nintendo’s unlikely marquee arcade racing franchise in the now generations-long glaring absence of the first party F-Zero and Wave Race.
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“Yakuza 0” Review
When Sega quietly put the Shenmue franchise in mothballs about 15 years ago, they even more quietly transplanted its core concept to “Project J,” which would later be given the name Ryu ga Gotoku (lit: Like a Dragon) upon its…
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“Garou: Mark of the Wolves” Review (PC)
SNK’s recent revitalization has been a very successful one, not just due to the brilliance of their comeback game, The King of Fighters XIV, but in their ability to open their back catalogue to new and old fans alike on…
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“Garou: Mark of the Wolves” Review (PS4, Vita)
SNK’s recent revitalization has been a very successful one, not just due to the brilliance of their comeback game, The King of Fighters XIV, but in their ability to open their back catalogue to new and old fans alike on…
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Patrick’s Top 10 Games of 2016
This was kind of an odd year for me, in a Game of the Year sense, because I honestly felt as though I knew going into the year how my entire list was going to shake out, and I wasn’t…
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“I Am Setsuna” Review
E3 2015, to Square Enix, will undoubtedly go down as the show where the real Final Fantasy XV stood up, and the company’s decade-long AAA investment finally entered the home stretch. It will go down as the show that saw…
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“Street Fighter V” Review
2008’s Street Fighter IV was less a new fighting game than it was a transformative event for the genre’s entire landscape. Seemingly overnight, the fighting game community exploded to near early 90s proportions, and the game itself heralded in a…
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Patrick Sounds Off #1.0: What SNK Just Did.
To some, SNK’s return to its original identity earlier this week was barely news, maybe a status quo move under new management. To others, it felt like a spiritual rebirth, like being given back a long-lost piece of your childhood….
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“Thrustmaster T150 Force Feedback Racing Wheel” Hardware Review
If there’s one genre that sees an even higher degree of justified peripheral elitism than fighting games, it is the racing sim. Find the right Gran Turismo or Forza Motorsport enthusiast, and you’ll inevitably find an equipment setup that makes…
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Patrick’s Top 10 Games of 2015
So, another year’s gone by already… kind of disturbing how fast that happened.
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“The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC” Review
[WARNING: This review is of a direct sequel to a previous game. I tried to keep it as spoiler-free as possible while still adequately covering the game. In order to do that, I had to work from the perspective of having played the…
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“Lost Dimension” Review
It’s become something of a tradition over the years that, as a PlayStation console’s lifespan winds down, it gets treated to a litany of solid JRPGs. If you’ve so much as recently glanced at the PS3 section at your gaming…
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