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Weekly Roundup: Xbox One X, Respawn & The Death of Miiverse
Hey Epilogue readers, welcome to our first edition of the “Weekly Roundup”, where we’ll give our lukewarm takes on everything that’s happened since the previous edition. The objective for these roundups is to both...
Twitch Guide: How to Not Lose Your Mind
I wanted to begin this Twitch Guide with a joke about how every caster will remember their first “Not Like This” moment. The sad thing is, I’m not really sure that all of us...
Drake’s Fortune: Naughty Dog’s Pilot [Part One]
Looking back to November 2007 and trying to remember what was happening in my life when Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune came out has been an empty venture. I was a sophomore in college, but I...
EG Podcast #2 – Ben and The Gang Talk Single Player Games
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Ludonarrative in SOMA
SOMA has spent an awful lot of time rattling around in my head since I finished it. Various moments in the narratively driven horror title were created to stick with the player, whether its...
EG Podcast #1 — Ben and The Gang Talk Loot Boxes and Horror
Thanks for listening! The Epilogue Gaming Podcast will also be available on YouTube, as well as iTunes under their “Games” section this Winter. If you enjoy what we do at Epilogue, consider...
Review: Cuphead
Written by Ben Vollmer Run, jump, shoot. In Cuphead, that’s all you’ll ever need. In a game that can be deconstructed into a trial of perseverance, Cuphead doesn’t deviate from what makes it click....
Retro Review – Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door
Written by Ben Vollmer When we’re first introduced to Paper Mario, the most notable difference is the shift from platforming to turn-based combat. Mario has never moved at Sonic speeds, but he’s always been...
What Pokemon On The Switch Will Look Like
Written by Ben Vollmer When Nintendo announced that Pokemon would eventually be making its way over to the Nintendo Switch, the mind’s of many went wild. Why wouldn’t they? After the recent successes of The Legend...
Streaming vs. Entertaining
Written by Ben Vollmer I run into this problem every now and again, one that most streamers can probably sympathize with: how do you describe Twitch to someone? For me, my four to...
Review: Crash Bandicoot (N. Sane Trilogy)
Written by Ben Vollmer This is a review of the first game in the “N. Sane Trilogy” and is not indicative of the package as a whole. On a mechanical level, Crash Bandicoot is broken. This...
A Small Streamer’s Guide to Success (Part 3)
Written by Ben Vollmer If you are interested in reading part one and two of this series, click here. It’s cliche, but streaming is about the journey and not the destination. Even the luckiest...
A Small Streamer’s Guide To Success (Part 2)
Written by Ben Vollmer If you are interested in reading part one of this series, click here. Now that we’ve begun to define what success means to you, what are some things that...
A Small Streamer’s Guide to Success (Part 1)
Written by Ben Vollmer Finding success on Twitch.TV as a streamer can be perilously difficult. Even aside from real-life responsibilities, reaching your goals as a broadcaster presents a long and arduous battle. So...
Review: Super Meat Boy
Written by Ben Vollmer Super Meat Boy is hard. The kind of difficult that will shake your faith, more than once, in what kind of gamer you really are. Difficulty is Super Meat Boy’s most...
Review: Yooka-Laylee
Written by Ben Vollmer Yooka-Laylee is a return to form for the “3D Collectathon” genre. The tight movement, compelling worlds and off-kilter writing all serve an homage to a genre that has long lost...
Review: Little Nightmares
Written by Ben Vollmer Atmospheric horror has an obligation to walk a thin line. Simultaneously, a game must ensnare a player’s interest enough for them to enjoy their stay, but frighten them enough...
Review: Outlast 2
Written by Ben Vollmer About halfway through my play through of Outlast 2, I realized that a video game had never terrified me so much. Not because Outlast 2 is in the master class of the genre,...
Retro Review – The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Written by Ben Vollmer The Legend of Zelda is largely a tale of time and space. The most recent entry, Breath of the Wild, in large part, is a commentary on this. Zelda disappears and Link...
Review: Ori and the Blind Forest
Written by Ben Vollmer Ori and the Blind Forest is beautiful. It’s pretty rare that a game is so jaw-droppingly gorgeous that it’s the appearance, rather than the mechanics that lay beneath, that takes...
Review: Kingdom Hearts 1.5
Written by Ben Vollmer Kingdom Hearts is a lot like picking through a bowl of fruit. For every bit that you enjoy, there’s something else that leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Only, in...
Review: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Written by Ben Vollmer There will come a moment in Breath of the Wild where you will figure out that you can’t do everything that comes to mind. For me, that moment game about...
Review: Resident Evil 7
Written by Ben Vollmer It takes about ten minutes. That’s how long you have in Resident Evil 7 until it flips humanity on its back and shows off its grotesque underside. Perhaps that’s what makes the...
Review: Life is Strange
Warning: This review contains spoilers of the entire game. Due to the episodic nature of the title, it would be impossible to review the game without speaking to its content. Written by Ben Vollmer...
Review: Doom
Written by Ben Vollmer There’s something about the incredibly rampant pace of the Doom reboot that lights your hair on fire. It’s hard to say whether it’s the music, the brutal melee system that has...
Retro Review: Super Metroid (1994)
Written by Ben Vollmer Where did the term “open world” come from? I recently played through Super Mario World and The Legend of Zelda and thought I knew. Being able to move backward and forward felt...
Review: The Last Guardian
Written by Ben Vollmer Everything about The Last Guardian feels memorable. From our seemingly normal protagonist to our majestic sidekick, everything about the game is just different. It isn’t always good, and it defies a lot...
Retro Review: Super Mario Sunshine
Written by Ben Vollmer By almost every measure, Super Mario Sunshine is the single biggest step outside the box for Nintendo’s lucrative plumber franchise. For the first time in the series, there’s voice acting (and...
Review: Dark Souls III
Warning, the following review contains story spoilers. Written by Ben Vollmer When Hidetaka Miyazaki first designed the world of Dark Souls, there was no intent on developing a sequel, or even two. That...
Retro Review: Super Mario World (1990)
Welcome to the Retro Review section, where Ben reviews older games and looks at how they’ve held up. As Mario races from the beginning of a level to the end, the player is met...
Retro Review: Luigi’s Mansion (2001)
Welcome to the Retro Review section, where Ben reviews older games and looks at how they’ve held up. The first thing you’ll notice about Luigi’s Mansion is that it’s missing Mario. That seems obvious when you...
Review: Mega Man
Written by Ben Vollmer Released for the NES in 1987, Mega Man is infamous for its long run of success in the late 20th century. Most importantly, the franchise has titles that hold up...
How ‘Undertale’ Subverts Expectations
Undertale is a masterclass of subverting expectations. Consistently throughout, Undertale creates scenarios that are both hilarious and unexpected.
How ‘Undertale’ Kills Expectations
Undertale is a masterclass of subverting expectations. Consistently throughout, Undertale creates scenarios that are both depressing and unexpected.
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