Although I’ve been progressing through my 2011 games more or less in alphabeticaly sequence up until now, I’ve got to briefly break from that to hit a game that seems to have slipped through the cracks somehow: Limbo.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Like so many other XBLA exclusives that eventually come to other platforms, I played Limbo much later than [...]

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Now that I’ve reviewed my favorite 2010 games, it’s time to look at the games I’m most looking forward to in 2011. For me, I should probably include Starcraft 2 on that list, since it was on my last most-looked-forward-to list, and I still haven’t played it. But here are the unreleased games that I’m [...]

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13- Shadow of the Colossus (Team Ico, Playstation 2, 2005)
When I think of the bygone era of the Playstation 2 and all the amazing games it had to offer, Shadow of the Colossus is generally one of the first games to come to mind. Although the graphics are grainy by today’s standards, it still stands [...]

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Although the ending is a bit climactic, Heir does a good job of capturing Shadow of the Colossus’s gameplay in a 2D form. The music sounds sufficiently epic, and the colossus is… well, colossal.
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This is the second part in my series on what themes tie together my all-time favorite video games. In April 2008, Blogs of the Round Table discussed this topic, and I’m only just now catching up.
One aspect of games that I’ve always appreciated is innovation. When a game comes out that does something totally new [...]

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Keepers is a weekly segment in which I discuss games I’ve played that I’ve seen fit to keep after playing. I generally sell a game that I’ve finished, so the only reason I keep one is because I plan to replay the game some day. Classifying a game as a “keeper” is generally a badge [...]

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