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Yakuza 3 (2009)

The third Yakuza game leaps out of the PS2 era into PS3 with a noticeable bump in quality from the original release. However, since I played the Kiwami Remakes of 1 & 2, this was much more of a downgrade instead to the “Remastered” version of Yakuza 3. Taking place around

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Yakuza Kiwami (2018)

Yakuza Kiwami is the remake for the first Yakuza game that was originally release in 2006 for the PS2. That extra decade plus really has had a profound improvement on the original game. Sega finally got it’s act together and realized that there was a great untapped market for

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Yakuza 0 (2017)

The Yakuza series was a staple of Playstation for so long, and even with giveaways of some of the games on it’s Playstation Plus subscription, it was just never a game that appealed to me. Especially with it starting on the Playstation 2 and working its way through to

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Days Gone (2019)

Days Gone, originally shown off in 2016 went through so many delays, that when it finally released on the PS4 in 2019, it got passed over by a lot of gaming media. They mocked it, said “no one needs more zombie games” and said the Biker main character was a

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Subnautica: Below Zero (2021)

The original Subnautica started out as an early access title in 2014 and didn’t have its 1.0 release until 2017. In that time it changed quite a bit, originally allowing players to terraform the underwater landscape, and slowly change into a much more narrative based single player story.

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Banjo Kazooie (1998)

Rare was at one point, possibly the biggest, or at least well known developers in the world. Churning out basically hit after hit for Nintendo for both the Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64. Platforming was their specialty, and when Mario 64 changed the world and gave us 3D platformers, it

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Destroy All Humans (2020 Remake)

Back in 2005 right before the Xbox 360 launched, a little game called Destroy All Humans came out, and sadly was overlooked by a lot of people. I remember playing it, and getting to a point where I had the entire map filled with angry FBI stand-in agents and the

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Rain On Your Prarade (2021)

I have always gone against the grain when it comes to weather. I lived in California for my entire life, and always hated it because of how hot and sunny it always was. I wanted to move to Seattle because it always was known for my favorite weather, Rain. While

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Virtual Boy Wario Land (1995)

Back when the VIrtual Boy was released, I remember playing it at a Blockbuster one Friday night while my parents picked out the weekends VHS’s to rent. I was only 10 years old, but the 3D graphics blew my mind back then, even the monochromatic Red display wasn’t

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Panzer Dragoon: Remake (2020)

I only have two memories of the Panzer Dragoon series; one being when I played through Panzer Dragoon Orta on the original Xbox about twenty years ago, and the other being when I was able to get ahold of Panzer Dragoon Saga on the Sega Saturn and add it to

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Monster Jam: Steel Titans 2 (2021)

This game might be my new go to example of a botched sequel. I wondered to myself the entire time I was playing it, how a game with so much potential be squandered so badly? Steel Titans 2 was just released and had a steam sale bundle containing both the

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Monster Jam: Steel Titans (2019)

There is nothing more exciting to a 5 year old boy than Monster Trucks, and even more than 30+ years later, I still love them. Weirdly though, there aren't a whole lot of Monster Truck games, even if the genre used to be fairly well represented. Maybe it was a

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Little Nightmares 2 (2021)

I’m a wuss when it comes to horror games. I can’t stand being scared, I don’t find it enjoyable in the least bit. However, when there is something more than just trying to make me scared, I can occasionally push through the fear and continue on. Events

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Hitman 3 (2021)

You’d think that a third entry in a gaming series would start to wear thin on the original premise of a game, but Hitman 3 shows that you can continually step up the progress of ideas and morph the series over time into something so far beyond what your

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Goldeneye 007 HD Remake (2021)

One of the best things about Microsoft purchasing Rare back in 2002 was the fact that we were hoping to see some if not most of the developers infamous games on a much more powerful console. When the Xbox 360 came out and Xbox Live was starting to really gain

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Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Calamity (2020)

The Dynasty Warriors series has been around for quite a while, debuting in 1997 on the original Playstation, it was never a series that I paid attention to. With it focusing primarily on semi-historical versions of infamous Chinese battles from hundreds of years ago, it was barely a blip on

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Scott Pilgrim Vs The World: The Game (2010)

Note: Reviewing the 2021 Re-Release Scott Pilgrim Vs The World: The Game, is based off the Graphic Novels of the same name, and with that, it follows the basics of the books plots, more so than the movie does. Sometimes a game feels like it was perfectly tailored for a

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Burnout Paradise: Remastered (2018)

Burnout Paradise Remastered is the same exact game it was back when it launched on Xbox 360 and PS3 back in 2008, with all the included DLC, and some higher resolution visuals. While playing the same game with higher quality graphics might sound nice, it still has the major issues

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ManEater (2020)

There isn’t a lot to choose from when it comes to video games about controlling sharks. Jaws from NES, Jaws Unleashed on the original Xbox, and that’s about it. ManEater from TripWire studios takes what should be a simple gimmick game, and deepens the plot and makes it

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Bugsnax (2020)

Bugsnax is an adventure game where you play as an unnamed character who does a bunch of fetch quests for other island inhabitants.Even though you have been brought to the island under the guise of interviewing a famous explorer, you soon get relegated to a personal assistant for each

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Spider-Man: Miles Morales (2020) (PS4 Version)

I’ve said before that Spider-Man has always been one of my two favorite Super Heroes, tied with Batman. Batman was definitely my first with seeing the 1989 Keaton movie with my mom on opening day in the theater when I was 4. Spidey though, was more prominent in my

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Pikuniku (2019)

A game with this hard of a name to pronounce at first sight, Is usually a good indication that it’s probably not going to be something that I like. It’s got Japanese katakana underneath the title in its “box art”/Store page. That in and of itself isn’

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Mafia - Definitive Edition (2020)

When the original Mafia game came out in 2002 I was just getting out of high school and looking forward to GTA: Vice City much more as the superior “mafia” game, with its neon twinge of 80’s cocaine fueled nostalgia. I don’t think I even remember seeing the

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Control: The Foundation & AWE DLC (2020)

The Foundation DLC: When Control originally came out, I was excited to play it, but I was still wary of Epic’s exclusivity on the game. I wanted all my Remedy games on Steam, and Epic’s stranglehold of PC Platform exclusives really was making everyone mad at the time.

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2 (2020)

Before this Remake of Tony 1 & 2 got announced a couple months ago, I actually played through the original three games…. In fact I played through the first game multiple times on different consoles. The original Playstation version, then the Dreamcast, and also the Xbox version. I kinda burnt myself