Consulting the Manual About Tunic

Tunic is a game that on the surface looks like a throwback to the original Legend of Zelda, from the character’s design to the general aesthetic of the world. This means it’s also a game I’ve kept my distance from until I had the chance to play it. And as expected, saying Tunic is just The Legend of Zelda is very reductive. But it went deeper than anticipated.

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Finally, Final Fantasy VII

There are games with a level of notoriety that tends to inform the conversation years and years after their release. And some of those games, through a series of circumstances, just get skipped over. Within the scope of my interests, the biggest title I hadn’t done an independent playthrough of is Final Fantasy VII. And it took until this year, 2023, for me to sit down with it.

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Finally, Final Fantasy Tactics

One of the most glaring omissions on my backlog progress is Final Fantasy Tactics, one of those games that on paper should be a sure thing. And I’ve made a pass at it in the past. Quite a while ago I was going to play FFT for the Fangamer Game Club, a community playthrough, but circumstances att he time delayed my start and I just couldn’t gel with a tactics game while under a truncated deadline at that time. And as it happens, when you put down an RPG sometimes you become reticent to comes back. And that mistake is on me.

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Super Zangyura – Cleaning Up An Immortal Menace?

Super Zangyura is a game by PlatineDispositif (http://www.platinedispositif.net/) and is a remake of a title originally released in 2004. He has been updating several of his games over the past few years – Gundemoniums and Bunny Must Die! Chelsea and the 7 Devils – and this continues the trend. What’s a surprise is how quickly Super Zangyura was released in western digital marketplaces being a niche indie title, but I’m all for it.

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