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My Friend Pedro is a preposterous tale about killing, death, revenge, and bananas. Our hero listens to the whims of a banana in his head as he takes out the seedy crime-ridden underbelly of the city.
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Below is a new game that tasks a team of adventurers, one at a time, to explore the depths of a mysterious cave. Unfortunately, it tries a lot and achieves not much, thanks to the fact that the game plods along and doesn’t really care to explain itself.
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The Council wraps up with Episode 5: Checkmate. Sadly short and a little too quick to tie ends up, it’s rather rough on it’s own. When seen as a wrap up to a series though, it is satisfying and gives you the feeling that your choices over the last year really meant something.
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London Detective Mysteria is a Vita rerelease/upgrade of a Japanese Otome visual novel from 2013. This cleanly-translated novel offers a story that doesn’t have to revolve around romantic relationships and makes you feel part of the story. A welcome fast forward and rewind makes you feel as if seeing all the options won’t be a hassle.
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Spintires: MudRunner-American Wilds does an excellent job of something not many vehicle games do: recreate the sphincter-tightening thrill of being on an unstable road for the first time in your driving career, when you suddenly realize that you aren’t one hundred percent in control. While the jobs don’t sound that thrilling, the challenge of getting from point A to point B is more than you may imagine.
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The Farming Simulator series is back again with it’s 2019 edition. Sporting a brand new graphical engine, the game is prettier than ever before, and the final inclusion of John Deere adds a new realism to many American fans. With the increased realism comes a strange feeling of loneliness, with a down-home country town completely barren of interaction. It is a farming sim, but there’s some quality of life that needs polished for the game to be enjoyable.
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Heavy Fire: Red Shadow pulls an arcade shooter into your living room. Unfortunately the VR aspect adds another $10 to the price which is a frustrating piece of a rather simple puzzle. In the midst of a loud, crazy arcade this game would be amazing. As an at-home event, though, the cracks begin to show.
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Hover is a futuristic cyberpunk neon-infused trip reminiscent of Jet Grind Radio, where you speed around the city, tagging graffiti, helping the citizens, and finding the best way to overthrow an oppressive government. While the core gameplay is amazingly fun, the story and missions can be bland and the interface seems as if it wasn’t optimized off of the PC for home console users.
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The Low Road is a satirical take on the espionage thriller, dropping players into the shoes of Noomi Kovacs as she tries to make her way out from behind her desk and into the treacherous world of industrial espionage, which starts with getting the coworkers with more tenure fired. This kind of dry wit permeates all of The Low Road, and makes for an entertaining ride start to finish.
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Rougelike + Metroidvanina = RougeVania, and it works so, so well. Dead Cells is an amazingly fun game that throws back to Symphony of the Night in gameplay, and the variety of randomization plus permanent unlocks gives you a wonderful sense of progression despite dying over, and over, and over, and over again.
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Tempest 4000 is a new edition of a classic Atari staple. It provides a great update in graphics and music, but changing the gameplay just wouldn’t be Tempest. Ryan Johnson at The Gamer’s Lounge runs it through the motions to see if it’s worth your time.
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The Lion’s Song is a classic adventure game more focused on choice and conversation. Within, you witness the growth of three artists in Vienna right before World War 1. The game portrays how some of the simplest choices can make the biggest difference in not only our lives, but the lives of those around us and society as a whole.
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Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 has expanded beyond the scope originally thought of by the developers. At the request of the fans, a new set of downloadable content has been released beyond the Season Pass plan. While a few vocal people are complaining that it's more cost beyond the full-cost game and Season Pass, the additional content warrants the cost of admission.
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Ultimate Chicken Horse is a corny multiplayer party game where you control cute little animals as they play Chicken with death and pull an "I can do better" game of Horse trying to get from Point A to Point B. Single player exists but is sparse. While there is online play, the game truly shines in couch co-op, watching your friends squirm trying to get through your mutually created death trap.
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ELEX is a highly ambitious game that meshes multiple genres into one fun world. Unfortunately, the difficult combat, wonky AI and tough learning curve leaves room for a sequel. With the right updates and patches, ELEX could be great, but as it is, deserves a pause.
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"Do I have to go in there?" As probably the most un-horror fan on The Gamer's Lounge team, Ryan gave the original Layers of Fear his coveted NOPE award, meaning he couldn't handle the scares and horrors inherent in it. However, when distilled down to it's core elements, Layers of Fear was a horror-walking simulator, with nothing much to do short of going through the motions. Here in the Inheritance DLC, the developers have produced that same icky feeling, with a resounding NOPE coming out of Ryan's brain. For true fans of the genre, though, they couldn't ask for anything more.
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Stories: The Path of Destinies is a recent release on PC and PS4. Within, you play as a swashbuckling sky pirate fox out to overthrow an evil emperor. Not all decisions lead to a happy ending, though, and you find yourself Groundhog Day-ing through your adventure, learning from your mistakes to come out as a true hero. Ryan Johnson at The Gamer's Lounge sits down with the game and gives you the full scoop.
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Ryan at The Gamer's Lounge isn't a scary movie or game kind of guy. He was tasked with reviewing Layers of Fear. His primary review can be boiled down to NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE! Now, depending on what kind of games you like, this could be very bad, or very, very good. Read in for more information.
Read MoreI've been around strategy games long enough to have dreamed of a game similar to Anomaly. Tower Defense have often disappointed me: in the end, you're fortifying yourself in one spot to hope that nobody can get through your defenses. 11 bit studio's change up to a "Tower Offense" has taken the genre by storm, and now Anomaly 2 makes it's way onto the PlayStation 4.
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