Topic: game length
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Dispatch: The App That Tells You When to Stop Gaming
The return of episodic gaming offers structured, complete experiences that provide narrative payoff without a massive time commitment, appealing to players overwhelmed by endless live-service titles. *Dispatch*, a new superhero game from AdHoc Studio, embodies this modern episodic approach with a...
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Dispatch Tells You When to Stop Playing Games
The episodic game *Dispatch* offers a structured, narrative-driven alternative to endless live-service titles, satisfying a desire for manageable, high-quality storytelling with clear endpoints. Set in a superhero workplace comedy, the game features a compelling, choice-driven story, high product...
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Crawling Through 'Ghost of Yotei' as Life Changes
The author's life as a parent limits gaming time, making playing the PS5-exclusive *Ghost of Yotei* a slow, deliberate process that contrasts with their usual fast-paced PC gaming habits. Despite slow progress, the author enjoys exploring the game's world thoroughly, finding distractions and side...
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Star Wars: Beyond Victory Review - A Thrilling New Adventure
Star Wars: Beyond Victory fails to deliver on its immersive VR podracing promise, with a rushed story that can be completed in about an hour and lacks depth in character development and plot. The gameplay is underwhelming, featuring simplistic VR segments and podracing viewed from a bird's-eye pe...
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Metal Eden Review: A Short & Sweet Gaming Delight
Metal Eden is a sci-fi action game that combines polished shooting mechanics with fluid parkour movement, offering a satisfying but brief experience for action enthusiasts. The game features unique combat elements like energy weapons to break enemy defenses and a Ball Mode transformation, alongsi...
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Bravely Default HD Remaster: How Long to Beat?
"Bravely Default: Flying Fairy HD" remasters the 3DS classic for modern consoles, featuring enhanced graphics, a streamlined interface, and customizable gameplay options on the Nintendo Switch 2. The game offers 35-45 hours of main story content, with optional activities like job mastery an...
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Deadpool VR: Our Full Review
Marvel's Deadpool VR is a fast-paced, witty adventure exclusive to Meta Quest 3 and 3S, offering a complete package with humor, secrets, and kinetic combat that keeps the action engaging. The game features arcade-inspired combat with fluid mechanics, allowing creative maneuvers and weapon customi...
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Clair Obscur: A Critical Hit on a Small Budget
*Clair Obscur: Expedition 33* achieved critical and awards success on a modest budget under $10 million, challenging industry assumptions about the resources needed for a high-quality game. Its development strategy focused on a condensed, polished world design and a collaborative funding model, r...
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Marvel Cosmic Invasion: Shitomatic Universe Review
Marvel Cosmic Invasion is a shallow, repetitive beat 'em up where superheroes feel underpowered, with combat dominated by tedious projectile-spamming enemies and a restrictive, clumsy defensive system. The game features a large but homogenized roster with limited movesets, underwhelming tag-team ...
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Goodnight Universe: A Messier, More Ambitious Sequel to Before Your Eyes
*Goodnight Universe* expands on its predecessor by transforming a concise emotional concept into a longer, more complex narrative with supernatural elements and family drama, retaining the heartfelt core while introducing new territory. Players control Isaac, a psychic baby who uses his powers to...
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Hell Is Us: A Surprisingly Accessible Soulslike With a Dark Story
Hell Is Us combines challenging soulslike combat with a more forgiving structure, set in a brutal fictional civil war that draws from real-world conflicts. The game features unique mechanics like a healing pulse system and extensive customization through glyphs and relics, though it suffers from ...
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Fire Emblem: Shadows Review - A Flawed Masterpiece
Nintendo unexpectedly released Fire Emblem: Shadows on mobile with minimal promotion, introducing a blend of tactical combat and social deduction mechanics. The game's social deduction element is undermined by simplistic design, such as a three-player limit that reduces strategy to guesswork and ...
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Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity Review - Princess Powerhouse
The game serves as a direct prequel to *The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom*, detailing the Imprisoning War with a strong premise, though the narrative sometimes sidelines key characters like Zelda and lacks emotional depth. Combat is significantly enhanced with new features like Sync Strik...
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Keeper: The Xbox Game About a Walking Lighthouse
Keeper is an adventure game where players control a sentient lighthouse that grows legs to explore a fantastical world, dispelling darkness and befriending a bird companion along the way. The gameplay evolves from simple puzzles using the lighthouse beam to more complex mechanics involving time m...
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Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake: Review Roundup
The Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake modernizes two classic RPGs with updated visuals and quality-of-life improvements while preserving their original old-school design and difficulty. Critics widely praised the collection, with reviews highlighting the enduring turn-based combat, enhanced conten...
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