In the Awesome Games Done Quick 2018 marathon, it’s easy to see that random number generation, or RNG, is a speedrunner’s worst nightmare. The elegant runs on display showcase the creativity of gamers who expertly navigate complex game mechanics. Playing Dragon Fang Z while watching…
Bret Zawilski
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Bret is a reformed JRPG fanatic who has slowly been falling into the clutches of the rhythm genre. By day he teaches college writing and moonlights as the co-host of the Criterion Correction podcast. He believes that indie games can save the world--or at least deconstruct some of the stale genre tropes behind AAA releases.
Bret Zawilski
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I’ve never been a big fan of dating sims or visual novels, except where glimpses of those genres lined up with the romance subplots of games like Knights of the Old Republic or Mass Effect. The Persona series carried me a little further into the outskirts…
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