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The best of overlooked and underappreciated computer and video games, from yesterday and today. It's pronounced "Mo-ay-gay-mer"

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Illusion of Time: darkness and light

After 1992's excellent Soul Blazer, Quintet followed up with a spiritual successor a year later. Illusion of Time, known as Illusion of Gaia in North America and Gaia Gensouki in Japan, was not a direct sequel to Soul Blazer, but rather a game that tackled similar themes, albeit from a different perspective. This time around,...

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Soul Blazer: all things bright and beautiful

I'm not a religious man, but I do have some enduring memories of my time attending a Church of England primary school. One of those was, presumably as part of our government-mandated Daily Collective Act of Worship, hearing stories of what God, Jesus and friends had been getting up to in Olden Times, but presented...

Playing Final Fantasy XI for the story: Part 1 – The Zilart Saga

I have been meaning to play through Final Fantasy XI's story for literal decades at this point. Ever since I first tried it, shortly after its original English release, I was fascinated by this game, but never managed to make much progress through it. On its original launch, this was down to how deliberately slow...

chains of promathiaffxi

Thank You For Your Application: a depressing, poignant look at a future that isn’t far off

Few phenomena in video games are more curious than the advent of the "work simulator" -- games where you do a job that is rather tedious, and which you would probably complain about if you were doing in real life. However, I can't deny that there's something quite comforting in games like this -- and...

icelemontea studioindie games

I am furious about the state of my hobby

This week may well go down in history as one of the bleakest the world of video games has ever seen, with the biggest news being the impending record layoffs at Microsoft, and Sony announcing that it is both closing the digital PS3 and Vita stores and stopping the production of physical discs. These are...

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Star Fox 2026: a refreshing throwback

Star Fox is back! Again. And this time, people, for the most part, actually seem to like it. This is more than can be said for the past attempt to bring it back -- which, for the record, I still feel was vastly underrated and completely misunderstood. The most common criticism that has been going...

3d shoot 'em upLylat Wars

You just don’t fuckin’ need generative AI, man

Just recently, Sega announced that it would be bringing back the beloved Crazy Taxi series with a new entry: Crazy Taxi World Tour. Hooray! Then they went and put a somewhat-ambiguous generative AI disclosure on their Steam page. Boo! I'm going to be absolutely clear and completely fuckin' up-front here: I will not be buying...

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