Patrick’s Top 10 Games of 2016
by Patrick MifflinThis 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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“Final Fantasy Type-0 HD” Review
The mixed bowl of franchise soup that is Fabula Nova Crystallis started out convoluted and only got more so as time passed. The initial game, Final Fantasy XIII, went on to become a trilogy in its own right, while Final…
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15 Minutes of [GAME] – Virtua Fighter 2
There are a lot of great 3D fighting games out there, but only the first three Virtua Fighter games have claimed their place in the Smithsonian. Here’s 15 Minutes of arguably the best of the three, Virtua Fighter 2.
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Voice of Dissent #7 – MORE DAKKA
For what it’s worth, Square couldn’t have picked a better slice of the game to serve up as the demo to bundle in with Brave Fencer Musashi a year before Final Fantasy VIII’s proper release.
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Voice of Dissent #6 – The Grinding You Won’t Be Spared
In which I show what a pain OCD truly is when dealing with a game of FFVIII’s unusual progression methods. Coming up on the five-hour mark, and not a foot has been set on Dollet.
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