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Laguna Levine

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Laguna Levine is the illegitimate son of famous explorer Toma Levine, disowned for forsaking the family tradition of moustaches to join Team Beards. That's fine though, since both are translated into the same word in Japan, Laguna's current home country.

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It’s no secret I have a love affair with Earthbound/Mother series inspired games, and Japanese cult classic Yume Nikki isn’t an exception. I haven’t actually finished the original game, but I’ve delved into plenty of videos, lore, and fan theories over the years. Enough to have formed opinions…

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Seeing Team Gotham‘s Solo for the first time immediately draws comparisons to Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Reading about it however, made it seem more like Undertale, if the player was romantically involved with the antagonist. Except that in Solo, there’s no combat. At all. While kind…

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Out for PC/Steam and Playstation 4, GNOG feels like a pop-up book with an AR component. Players select a module (heads of the theme you’re looking like, reminding me of Might Max/Polly Pocket) that opens up like a pop-up storybook with achievement flags. You click and pull…

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From the makers of Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor comes There Might Be Ponds, a cute but uniquely odd game at IndieCade 2017. Initially seeming like a harmless adventure of girl finding a weird but cute garden while searching for a pond, the game’s uniqueness will hit you as…

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The first time I saw YIIK: A Postmodern RPG, I felt excited and a little worried. I’ve previously mentioned both my love of the Earthbound/Mother series and severe doubt that anyone could list it as a reference and make something worthy of mentioning its name. After Undertale and…

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I’m not going to lie: until the Microsoft E3 2017 press conference, I’d nearly forgotten that Ooblets was a thing. I vaguely recalled the game being inspired by Animal Crossing, Pokemon, and Harvest Moon.  All titles I appreciate, and two of which I managed to get horribly…

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The list of Earthbound inspired games is growing, with En House Studios continuing the trend with fourth wall breaking, existentially themed GLITCHED. In GLITCHED, the player, assisted by a fictional game company, tries to enjoy a game about a modern day boy leaving home for the…

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Reliable sources have recently mentioned that Chris Roberts’ Cloud Imperium Games has some big additions headed for the third-person aspect of Star Citizen that may surprise and titillate sci-fi and horror fans alike. IllFonic, the company that originally worked on creating the shooter aspect of the game,…