You’ll spend half of your time in Deep Sixed looking at the in-game manual, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The game requires patience and precision to play. It offers all of the tedium associated with the flight simulator genre minus the piloting. Failure after catastrophic…
John Klingle
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John Klingle is a critic, musician and actor living in Chicago. Growing up in Kentucky, he first played video games on his older cousin’s hand-me-down NES. Games like Super Mario Bros. 2, Kirby’s Adventure, and Simon’s Quest gave him a deep love for 2D exploration-based gameplay that continues to this day. John came into indie games with Japanese titles like La Mulana, Cave Story and Yume Nikki as well as the works of Western developers such as Matt Thorson, Terry Cavanaugh and Cactus. He thinks the best games tell stories with environments as well as words.
John Klingle
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At its worst the visual novel genre can be overwritten and tedious. The Endless Journey manages to avoid this by incorporating elements of the point ‘n’ click adventure genre. Unfortunately, the elements it borrows are some of that genre’s worst. The Endless Journey is the…
John Klingle
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Where Are My Friends? is developer Beard Game Studios’ first release, and trying to span four different genres in your first game is a pretty damn impressive show of confidence. Games that have tried to do this in the past have a pretty mixed track…
John Klingle
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When I first played Yume Nikki I had to navigate Japanese-language file sites, download an unofficial English patch and install a Japanese character pack onto my laptop so I could run the Japanese version of RPG Maker 2003. More than a decade later, the seminal Japanese…
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