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Backchat: Dredge
The first episode of Backlog's intermittent podcast!
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and the backpack metaphor
Buckle up, folks: It's a fiction workshop metaphor week
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I reviewed The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog for Polygon
Pro-tip: Don't name your character "Sanic" like I did
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Unsighted and the solution to side quest dissonance
You may not like it, but this is what narrative cohesion looks like
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Nobody Saves the World and exuberant middle schoolers
Backlog Duo™ returns
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Citizen Sleeper and choosing to stay
This game broke my heart
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I wrote about The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening for Polygon's Zeldathon
Yes, it is a fiction craft lesson in the guise of a videogame essay
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I reviewed Metroid Prime Remastered for Polygon
You don't need me to tell you to play it, but, yeah, play it
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Return of the Obra Dinn and jigsaw puzzles
Or, how I spent my Christmas break
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I reviewed Forspoken for Polygon
Promising combat can't make up for everything else
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Carrion and thematic save points
Regrouping in the biomass