As a global pandemic upends our entire way of life, there is one thing we can rely on in this time of social distancing and general unease: video games.
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Ori and the Will of the Wisps carries over the fine-tuned platforming of 2015’s Ori and the Blind Forest and expands on it by improving the combat and adding depth to the characters. Although W...
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Playing the Final Fantasy VII Remake demo last week made me feel nostalgic for a good turn-based RPG. I dug around my enormous, embarrassingly large backlog and decided to give I Am Setsuna a whi...
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Butter Royale came out of a pun. “We were pitching games when it came up,” said Benjamin Chevalier, co-founder of Mighty Bear Games. “We were about to fly to San Francisco” and the ideas ...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/fortnite-type-fun-in-bite-size-package/
Square-Enix dropped the Final Fantasy VII Remake demo earlier this week, so naturally I dropped everything to give it a whirl. It is, of course, a recreation of the iconic beginning of the origin...
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Hipster Whale knows how to refresh a classic formula. The team’s best-known work is Crossy Road, a new spin on Frogger. For the franchise follow-up, the team tackles another genre — the platf...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/essence-of-mario-games-distilled-into-pure-fun/
The tumultuous relationship between film and video games has been a topic of interest to me of late (as you regular readers well know). Most “adaptations” focus on, well, story. The Witcher w...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/paige-ftw-keeping-it-real-with-adaptation/
With the Resident Evil 3 remake, Capcom updates a classic that was ahead of its time. It carries over concepts of the original, following Jill Valentine as she tries to escape Raccoon City.
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/updating-an-innovative-survival-horror-classic/
You’d think that by now we’d be over the whole console war mentality.
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Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition is a lot of things — experimental, literary, strange — and it may come across as boring to players unprepared for what it’s trying to achieve. On the surface...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/new-game-echoes-experimental-fiction/
It used to be that established actors never appeared in animated films. Nowadays, that’s all there is — star-studded cast lists for such “illustrious” titles as The Secret Life of Pets an...
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Coney Island was only the beginning. As players check out episode 3 of Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 post-launch content, they’ll discover that more is coming.
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/franchise-expansion-takes-players-back-to-new-york/
Nobody likes pay-to-win tactics. It’s just a fact.
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In Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous — a sequel to Pathfinder: Kingmaker — players create a character that becomes the leader of an army charged with freeing a region that was invaded by a d...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/take-command-of-a-demon-fighting-army/
Kingdom Hearts was the absolute coolest thing ever when I was in high school. Twelve years later, I can see the flaws and the cheese and zippers and all the weirdness.
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Not many Americans may know about Captain Tsubasa. That’s understandable because the manga and anime, which ran from 1980s to 1990s, never made it to U.S. shores.
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/game-tracks-athletes-career-from-middle-school-to-the-pros/
Video games are an industry where sequels are … expected, honestly. If you make a fantastic standalone game (like The Last of Us), the first question you should expect is when the next one is c...
After reinventing a legendary franchise, what do you do for an encore? That was a question facing director Hugo Martin when creating Doom Eternal.
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I’ve mentioned in this space before that I recently got into Dungeons & Dragons.
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Picking the best games of the decade is an increasingly tough task. These are the games that had a lasting impact on me. They are the ones that I fondly remember or the titles that I still play t...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/games-of-the-decade-2010-to-2019/
As we are inundated with gaming adaptations that never quite get it — the Sonic movie looms upon us, ominously promising to continue that trend — it is refreshing to find a series that … do...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/paige-ftw-the-witcher-gets-it/
The best fitness games take advantage of the compelling nature of play. They push players to beat high scores or advance a narrative. With Ring Fit Adventure, Nintendo mixes exercise and gameplay...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/bringing-out-the-fun-in-exercise/
I’m not one to play online games with other people, but I keep a stock of local party games to play with friends — the old-school method of multiplayer gaming, really. It remains a viable soc...
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To close out 2019, Sony published a diverse collection of PlayStation VR titles that’s highlighted by Stardust Odyssey and Audica. Both are full-fledged games that are built with the specificat...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/recent-offerings-for-playstation-vr/
As we teeter on the brink of 2020, let’s alter the typical “most anticipated” list and instead discuss what we want out of our games next year.
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Upon the surface, it’s clear that Phoenix Point is based heavily off the formula that Jullian Gollop helped to create in the original XCOM series from the 1990s. However, time has been the deve...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/new-game-is-familiar-yet-different/
The movies have the Oscars; TV has the Emmys. Video games have … The Game Awards? OK, so it’s definitely not as prestigious as its primetime kin, but it’s something, I guess. While the show...
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Life is Strange was never supposed to have a sequel. When Dontnod Entertainment created the game, the developers imagined it as a stand-alone project, a one-off. What they didn't anticipate was t...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/hard-hitting-sequel-veers-far-away-from-original/
The Resident Evil 3 remake was shown during PlayStation's State of Play via Twitch Dec. 10, 2019.
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There has been a trend, as we depart the first decade of the millennium into the Roaring Twenties, to look back at the best games of the decade.
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I don’t know about you, but I know I had a minor heart attack when I realized that, oh man, it’s December already, and I am so behind on my gift preparations. So I wrote up a little guide to ...
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The holidays are right around the corner. Do you know what you should buy for that special video game enthusiast in your life? Here’s a selection of gifts you can feel good about giving the vid...
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The big thing right now — Death Stranding, the mysterious brainchild of auteur Hideo Kojima. Supremely hyped with the requisite ambiguity, the big drop of fall 2019 is a cutscene-heavy, celebr...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/paige-ftw-death-stranding-is-sure-a-game/
For the 2019 holiday season, Sony is publishing a diverse collection of PlayStation VR titles that’s highlighted by Stardust Odyssey and Audica. Both are full-fledged games that are built with ...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/two-holiday-offerings-for-playstation-vr/
My favorite Mario brother has always been Luigi. Mario always gets all the glory, you know? And Luigi is stuck as the eternal Player Two — or worse, a background character (as he was in Super M...
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With Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, the series returns to what makes it great. The team leverages the nostalgia from fan-favorite characters such as Capt. John Price and throws it into a world tha...
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/going-back-to-basics-pays-off/
Leapfrogging after last week’s column, this winter finds a few gaming properties actually moving from, well, screen to screen. Will they be successful? Let’s hash it out.
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Since it was released in 2016, Death Stranding has raised more questions than answers. The project seemed like an amalgamation of random images with gameplay that was equally as mysterious.
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/pioneering-in-a-post-apocalyptic-world/
As we continue the Death Stranding hype (the game released this week), news broke that Hideo Kojima has announced that his studio, Kojima Productions, is willing to develop its own movies.
https://www.honolulustreetpulse.com/paige-ftw-game-makers-look-to-film/
It’s been over five years since Blizzard first release Hearthstone, its take on the digital card game genre. The core game has undergone a lot of changes since then. But there have been few, if...
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