Category: Reviews
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LTG Review – Pony Island
By Jordan Nelson Pony Island. It sounds like something that my young cousins would be into. The artwork for it is bright and happy, making it look better suited for the innocent and flowery type of player. Yet this game is anything but what you would expect. First off, you are playing a character playing an…
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TellTale’s The Walking Dead: Michonne Mini-Series Comprehensive Review
Release Date: Episode 1, In Too Deep: February 23, 2016 Episode 2, Give No Shelter: March 29, 2016 Episode 3, What We Deserve: April 26, 2016 Developer: TellTale Games Publisher: TellTale Games Genre: Horror, Survival, Interactive Story System: Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox 360, Xbox One (Reviewed), Steam/PC Overall time spent – 3 hrs 15…
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Last Token Gaming Hall of Fame Review – Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars (1996)
Developer: Revolution Software Publisher: Virgin Interactive Release Date: September 30, 1996 (PC), January 31, 1998 (PlayStation) Genre: Point-and-click adventure, mystery Mode: Single-player Rating: T for Teen “Paris in the fall: the last months of the year, and the end of the millennium. The city holds many memories for me: of cafes, of music, of love – and of…
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Backlog Review: Difficulty vs. Fear – Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (FNAF 2)
Release Date: November 10, 2014 Developer: Scott Cawthon Publisher: Scott Cawthon Genre: Horror, Survival System: Steam/PC (Reviewed), Mobile Playtime: 5 hours, 30 minutes (Nights 1-5) A year and a half ago, I wrote a review of Five Nights at Freddy’s (FNAF1 for short) to wish the game a happy birthday, and claimed it to be…
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Retro Review – Quest for Glory: So You Want to Be a Hero (1992, Sierra On-Line, PC)
by Benjamin Fitzgerald I love role-playing games; I love adventure games. They are my two favorite genres of video game. Naturally, when I heard about the old Quest for Glory series by Sierra from the ‘90s, I was very excited. I bought the whole series in a single volume. So far, I have played the…
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War Never Changes – FallOut 4 Review
Release Date: November 10, 2015 Rated: T for Teen Publisher: Bethesda Game Studios Developer: Bethesda Softworks Platform: Xbox One, Playstation 4, PC Completion time: 3 days, 5 hours and 20 minutes aka 77 hours and 20 minutes. FallOut 3 had a bevy of expectations lobbied against it before its eventual release. Fans of the franchise had been…
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Stardew Valley: Because there aren’t enough Harvest Moon games?
I went into playing Stardew Valley with equal parts skepticism and optimism. It was an obvious homage to Harvest Moon, and although you can describe the experience of playing a new Harvest Moon game many ways, “novel” should really not be one of them. You somehow inherit a farm (often by ridiculous circumstances), and must…
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Backlog Review: Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong’s Double Trouble
By Jake Rushing Developer: RARE Publisher: Nintendo Release Date: November 1st, 1996 Platform: Super Nintendo, Game Boy Advance, Wii, Wii U Rated: E for Everyone After Nintendo 64 was released to the store shelves, Rare had already finished the third installment of the Donkey Kong Country series, and the game got released over 4 months…
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Tom Clancy’s The Division Beta Impressions
*Beta was played on the Xbox One Open world games have always been an anomaly for me. There’s always a sense of a disconnect between what the developers want to do versus what is accomplished as a final result. Each game attempts to build a living breathing world through various ways; the open, expansive maps,…
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Super Smash Bros. – Corrin Review
Representative of: Fire Emblem: Fates Released: February 3, 2016 Systems: Wii U, 3DS Important to Note: Corrin is a character that can be played as either a Male or Female, like in Fire Emblem: Fates. Therefore, in this article I do not use “he” or “she” pronouns and instead use “they”, “their” in respect to having no gender…