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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

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              Hello hello. I’ve been playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and I quite like it a lot. I’ve just finished the main story so now I’m just going around and checking out the rest of the world. I don’t have a lot to say that hasn’t already been said by others but I was gonna reiterate anyway but I’ll start with my own personal journey of how I found out about the game.             For one thing it was all over PC Gamer magazine for months. I don’t know how issues I got that had it on the back cover. But the first time I saw it was during an Xbox direct of all things. Very rarely do I see anything in these directs, aside from Nintendo, that really catch my attention but E33 did. I don’t know if I can call this an indie game but with most indie games it’s like they reach into a hat with different game mechanics and genres, pull out three or four and are like “We’re...

Monster Hunter Fighter

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              H-hello? Everything is working? Oh good. I recently did some updates for my PC to pave the way for Windows 11 and everything is actually working on the first try, yay. So what’s the first thing I do with a basically new PC? Install and play (for a minute) old, shitty games! Yaaaa! I mean, I didn’t upgrade because I was trying to get better quality in my games but it’s still funny that I look at my Steam library and I’m like …Portal…Fear…Street Fighter X Tekken… But playing Sunbreak and seeing SFxT made me think about the 2D Monster Hunter fighting game I’ve been wishing for for years. As I’ve said over the years, I’m a very casual fighting game player. I just like to have fun playing against CPUs, maybe my buds, but I don’t really want to go hard at it. I’m not looking to be “pro” or competitive; I just want to push buttons and do stuff so there are better people to come up with how each monster would fight or be...