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Final Fantasy XIV Platinum Trophy Review
If someone asked me, what my favourite game series is, Final Fantasy would be the first answer that came to mind. I’ve been playing them since I was a child, and although I do not like every single game in the series, most of them hold a special place in my heart. Despite my love…
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Stellar Blade Platinum Trophy Review
I remember watching the PlayStation showcase when Stellar Blade was announced in 2022 and thinking it looked like a cross between Bayonetta and Nier Automata and being incredibly excited about it. I’m not particularly good at them, but I love character action games like Devil May Cry and Bayonetta, and Nier Automata is one of…
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Tales of Kenzera: Zau Platinum Trophy Review
There have been many video games over the years to cover the subject of grief, each in different ways. Brothers: A tale of two Sons, Rime, What Remains of Edith Finch, Rime, and even the 2018 God of War, all look at grief through different lenses. But they all touch on the same shared hurts,…
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Signalis Platinum Review
A few months ago, a friend and fellow trophy hunter, revisited a survival horror game, that we had both been interested in since its release in 2022, called Signalis. We had both been intrigued by its PlayStation 1-style graphics and survival horror gameplay but as often happens with smaller titles it got swept aside by…
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Final Fantasy VII Rebirth Platinum Review
When the original Final Fantasy 7 was released on the PlayStation 1 in the UK I was 8 years old and I remember having to wait for my dad to finish it before I was allowed to play it. I got to watch some parts of his playthrough but the wait to play it myself…
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Pentiment Platinum Trophy Review
Earlier this year, Microsoft surprised gamers by announcing its intentions to begin releasing some of its formerly exclusive titles, on Nintendo and Playstation consoles. The first of these was the narrative adventure game, Pentiment. I had played Pentiment previously on PC Gamespass, but the PlayStation version that was released on February 22nd had something shiny…
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Tekken 8 Platinum Review
Fighting games have presented a formidable challenge for me, yet there is an undeniable allure to their complexity and depth. My relationship with them for most of my life has been a distant one. I enjoy watching them in tournaments like Evo, but I’ve always been a beginner when playing them myself. There are a…
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Alan Wake 2 Platinum Review
A sequel poses a difficult challenge in any form of media. You need to do something new and push the story forward, maybe recontextualise information or motives, or introduce new conflicts that may not have been planned for when you were writing the original. It needs to be fresh, but also familiar. For a good…
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Alan Wake Remastered Platinum Review
In 2010, an Xbox Exclusive title named Alan Wake was released and quickly became a genre darling of the horror scene. For my part, I would say I definitely enjoyed it, and I would recommend it to someone who hadn’t played it but I wasn’t itching to go back and revisit it. As time passed,…
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Metal Hellsinger Platinum Review
Has this ever happened to you, when you are playing a game filled with frenetic intense action, like Doom, or Devil May Cry, there is a moment, when the music is at its most feverish, and you enter a sort of Zen State, where your actions and the music synergise. The supershot gun blasts the…