“Papers, Please” Deals With Player Choice in a Simple yet Effective Way As you probably could’ve guessed, I was a part of the group that got to play Papers, Please. I knew I wanted to play this game because back when I was in middle school I remember watching Jacksepticeye’s playthrough of the game. However,…
In 2001, the Spongebob episode “Shanghaied” aired on Nickelodeon. I watched this episode many times as a kid. In the episode, the pirate ghost The Flying Dutchman threatens to eat Spongebob, Squidward, and Patrick. However, he gives them three wishes beforehand, to see if they can outsmart him. Spongebob and Patrick waste two of their…
I’ve noticed that for me and a lot of people I know who are way into video games, we started playing early in our lives. We played games like Mario, Pokémon, and Minecraft when we were little, and these got us familiar with the “language” of games. Like any language, you learn it much better…
After reading a Choose Your Own Adventure book for the first time in about a decade, I was enthralled by its various storylines and filled with a great sense of nostalgia. Reading R. A Montgomery’s Island of Time brought me back to simpler days when both my reading skills and my expectation skills were significantly…
It is obvious how choose your own adventure novels have inspired all modern narrative gaming experiences. This is especially true of games created by the studio “Telltale.” Telltale went bankrupt several years ago, mainly due to their small team size and high demand, but they are now returning with a title called The Expanse this…
I can say, without shame, that I love Choose Your Own Adventure novels. I’ve read quite a few of them since my childhood as I recall them really being the only reason why I ever wanted to visit the library in the 90’s. I distinctly remember many evenings reading on my local library’s floor, leaving…
I will not mince words; I am a Wii Sports tennis master. My skill level is quite literally off the charts. Innumerable computer-generated characters have tried and failed to beat me, and my human friends (at least the ones willing to play with me) fare no better. But how did I reach this level of…
When it comes to spoilers for games, I feel like people have a huge range of sensitivity. My own sensitivity is quite high, and sometimes I wish that weren’t the case. I think my spoiler sensitivity is so high because I’ve often experienced the wonders that 0 expectations of a game can bring. Jumping in…
As someone who’s almost impossibly bad at puzzle games, Blackbar proved to be quite difficult for me, in some ways even moreso than traditionally hard games like Cuphead or Sekiro, at least in the sense that I felt much more stuck in Blackbar. In fact, I (a bit shamefully) used a walkthrough so that I…
It was a catastrophe unlike any other. All the world’s oil suddenly disappeared and no one can figure out why! I, along with Ned, sought out the CIA to help solve the mystery of the missing oil. We, alongside an agent named Ditwiller, decide to meet a curious man named Boris, an ex-member of the…
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