[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]’ve been gaming for the vast majority of my life but have only rarely enjoyed a From Software game. Some of their most esteemed properties, the King’s Field and Souls series, look incredible and yet my time spent playing any of them probably clocks…
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Marcus is a fellow with a love for video games, horror, and Japanese food. When he’s not writing about games for a multitude of sites, he’s usually still playing one. Writing about video games is something he hopes to continue doing for many years to come.
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Most of the time we see visual novels which are cutesy, sexy, or in some other way light-hearted. Every so often, fans of the genre are treated to completely different sorts of storylines. This is the case with Trigger, a game described as a choose…
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[dropcap size=big]I[/dropcap]f you’ve been on Cliqist for a little while then you might’ve already seen our series of articles about Kickstarter and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, referred to as the DMCA. If you aren’t sure about what DMCA actually is then it might help…
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It’s always a joy when a new Kickstarter campaign manages to hook me right off the bat. When clicking on Elsinore and seeing the basic description, I couldn’t help but keep reading: “Elsinore is a time-looping narrative adventure game set in the world of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.”…
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Living in an apartment is an odd experience in some ways. It is only thin walls which separate you from other people living out their lives nearby. Although we all feel that our joys and troubles are uniquely are own, it’s really the case that…
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Finch is a bit of an odd creature. He is somehow both frog and human, and this has left him as an outcast from the other frogs. Even so, he became one heck of a cocky creature and is the “chosen one” who will fulfill…
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In The Intergalactic Trashman, there was a massive war which ended up sending tons of garbage spiraling out in space. As this simply wouldn’t do, space trashmen were established to pick up all the rubbish and dispose of it properly. Two members of the Intergalactic…
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Antigravity racers (AG racers) used to be an incredibly hot genre. And then, out of nowhere, they suddenly dried up. The biggest genre mainstay, WipEout, saw its releases dwindle to once every few years, with the latest in 2012. By then it seemed that the…
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[dropcap size=big]A[/dropcap]lthough I don’t particularly define myself as a “journalist,” I am pretty aware of the grind associated with writing content on the web. It is at times joyful, and other times quite soul-sucking if you let it be all about the money. But, with…
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I’ll admit that, despite being a diehard visual novel fan, it is becoming increasingly hard to keep up with every English-language release. When Invisible Apartment launched on Steam for free I definitely took notice, but haven’t been able to play it yet. Vysoko Anime Production…
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A surprising amount of distinct visual novels launched this week on Kickstarter. One of these titles is Herald by Wispfire. Although, that’s not the perfect description as the game is actually a mix between point and click adventure gameplay and visual novel storytelling. Players assume…
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Winterflame: The Other Side is an upcoming game based off the Vandaria series. Like a few other Kickstarter projects before it, this name isn’t one known worldwide, but in Indonesia is a huge property. A whole assortment of mixed media spinoffs have been made under…
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Help, I’m drowning in crowdfunded visual novels! Actually, don’t help because this is completely awesome. Starlight Vega is a brand new game in the genre focused on a girl named Aria. She was just snooping around her grandpa’s old house when she stumbles upon a…
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It’s quite a week for visual novel fans on Kickstarter. This week marks the launch of Tales of Valiance: First Light, which is an upcoming game in the genre by Talen James and Darian Bower. Their funding video doesn’t actually explain much about the game,…
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Kickstarter is a huge gambit for project creators. Sometimes, astonishingly cool games fail to meet their funding goals while other campaigns make it. It’s downright impossible to predict, but luckily it’s always possible to run a second campaign. Three very recent campaigns have done exactly…
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The local multiplayer Renaissance is upon us. In the past two years we have seen a tremendous amount of indie games come about with a focus on couch co-op. Ultimate Chicken Horse is the newest in this trend (although it’s not exclusively a multiplayer game)….
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