Viewfinder Demo – SmashPad’s Summer Game Fest
by Chris SelogyWe check out some of the demos released on Steam and consoles during and after Summer Game Fest. This is Viewfinder for PS5, PS4, and PC with the video focusing on the PS5 version.
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Patrick Sounds Off: How FFVII Remake and Rebirth Won Me Over
by Patrick MifflinIt’s pretty well established at this point that Final Fantasy VII Remake isn’t actually an attempt to replace the badly-aged 1997 release with a fresh coat of paint, but is rather a very ambitious spinoff that starts out in a…
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Patrick Sounds Off: Gameplay is King. No Exceptions.
A certain omission from my upcoming Top Ten JRPGs list invites a deeper conversation about battle system design philosophy, so I’ll break the ice.
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Patrick Sounds Off: It Got Yoshi-P, Too…
Just like Hajime Tabata’s “Final Fantasy Disease” comments, it’s hard to take Naoki Yoshida’s statements about the JRPG genre label entirely in good faith, given the circumstances…
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Patrick Sounds Off: What I Really Think of Sega Dreamcast
There’s no question the Dreamcast was a great system, but does the whole postmortem deification of it strike anyone else as a bit creepy?
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Patrick Sounds Off: Sega’s Evo Choke
Sega may never get as big an opportunity to announce Virtua Fighter 6 in front of unified FGC attention as they had at Evo Japan. That they failed to do so is maddening.
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Patrick Sounds Off: Concerning Developments at Square Enix
That video where I talk about Yosuke Matsuda without making a single NFT joke. Because the broader implications of his departure from Square Enix aren’t funny.
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Patrick Sounds Off: Nintendo’s (Long) Road to Next-Gen
I deal in realism, not hype. There’s a lot of buzz about a Nintendo Switch successor at the moment, but not a lot of reasonable expectations surrounding it. I guess that’s where I come in.
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Patrick Sounds Off: Postmortem
Now that we know $70 is a thing for the Nintendo Switch moving forward, it’s time to examine some of the real likely causes and implications.
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Patrick Sounds Off: The Lengths We Go
Back to system launch commentaries. Wasn’t planning to take part in this one, but Nintendo was insistent and knew exactly how to bring me around.
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Cook Serve Forever & The Last Starship – SmashPad Demo Fest
We check out some of the demos in the Steam Next Fest event. Cook Serve Forever by Vertigo Gaming Cook Serve Forever is the fourth title in the Cook, Serve, Delicious! series that takes place in a future city as…
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Patrick Sounds Off: Virtua Renaissance
I love that a new Virtua Fighter looks inevitable with Virtua Fighter 5: Ultimate Showdown headlining EVO Japan 2023, but upwards of a decade is a long wait for a new game in any series, and I can’t help wondering…
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