Alejandro Segovia

13

Nov

By Alejandro Segovia

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Review : Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D Remake : Calling Out For A Hero

The JRPG genre has certainly had one of its most robust years ever in 2024. Just listing all the big name quality titles that dropped this year alone is so daunting. Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Persona 3: Reload, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, Unicorn Overlord, Romancing Saga 2: Revenge of…

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31

Oct

By Alejandro Segovia

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Preview : Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake : A Highlight in 2024

At a time where we are inundated with remasters and remakes, I always have a special place in my heart for the style that is not just the modern, full blown remake. Don’t get me wrong, the last few years have delivered stellar after stellar full blown remakes from big…

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30

Oct

By Alejandro Segovia

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Review : Call of Duty Black Ops 6 : Omni Pantheon

You’d think there would be nothing left to be said about an annual franchise on its 19th entry. But for Activision's resilient Call of Duty franchise, there are certainly things to be said about the state of the franchise over the past half decade. Ever since its technological facelift with…

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25

Oct

By Alejandro Segovia

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Review : Alan Wake 2 The Lake House : Door to Greatest Hits

Last year, legendary Finnish developer Remedy Entertainment stunned the world with their 13-year-long awaited sequel, Alan Wake 2. A game with a brilliant storytelling mixture of film, TV, and video game that never forgot its identity as the latter, wrapped up in a pretty nerve-wracking survival horror experience, Alan Wake…

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10

Oct

By Alejandro Segovia

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Warhammer 40K Space Marine 2 and Old Tricks Taught Anew

Oh, that sentimental longing for the past, where days were carefree and everything was “better” than what we have now. Such is the era of nostalgia that pervades all of our culture these days. You see it in movies. You see it on TV. And you absolutely see it in…

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10

Sep

By Alejandro Segovia

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PlayStation Announces $699 PS5 Pro : Full Details

Sony has officially announced the PlayStation 5 Pro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HaRMiTfvks In a 9 minute presentation, PlayStation veteran Mark Cerny gave a concise rundown of the improvements made for the mid-gen refresh for the PlayStation 5. Citing gamers' habits of choosing Performance modes in various games and the desire to give performance…

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26

Aug

By Alejandro Segovia

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Review : Star Wars Outlaws : Scrappy Nerf Herder

For as long as Star Wars has existed as a franchise, and for as long as gaming adaptations have been a thing, I’ve only had one dream: an open world game set in a galaxy far, far away. Considering how pervasive the open world genre has been over the last…

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10

May

By Alejandro Segovia

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Review : Stellar Blade : Alpha Naytiba

In an ever growing gaming industry where interesting games can come from places and territories you least expect, I appreciate the way the Korean gaming industry is slowly breaking into more AAA fare as of late. For a territory with as many gamers as it has, yet typically defined by…

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26

Apr

By Alejandro Segovia

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Review : Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Arcade: Wrath of the Mutants : Shell Shocked

They may not be the hot ticket item when it comes to pop culture these days, but I’m happy to see the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles continue to stay relevant in the current landscape in various ways. From its continuous comic line to even its most recent stop motion-style animated…

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22

Apr

By Alejandro Segovia

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Review : Final Fantasy XVI: The Rising Tide : Bloody Kairos

Even with endless debates, there is no denying the last few years have been really good to Final Fantasy fans. For a franchise that went astray and with yawning release gaps in the 2010’s, the quantity and quality of the recent output has seen Square Enix’s long-running franchise have one…

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21

Mar

By Alejandro Segovia

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Review : Final Fantasy VII: Rebirth : Embrace Your Dreams

It was late at night, in the middle of Sony’s E3 2015 Press Conference, where a trailer with familiar imagery ended with the voice-over, “For they are coming back. At last, the promise has been made.” And in that moment, dreams finally came true: a remake for Final Fantasy VII…

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19

Feb

By Alejandro Segovia

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Review : Skull and Bones : Shipwrecked

If there was one common feedback Ubisoft definitely got after the release of 2013’s successful Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, it was simple: make a full on pirate game. And for good reason. This one-off sequel in the long running Assassin’s Creed series managed to successfully build upon a side…

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07

Feb

By Alejandro Segovia

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Review : Granblue Fantasy: Relink : Primal Time

Heading into the onslaught of JRPG releases for this early half of 2024, where we are either getting the next big sequel or a full-fledged remake of a beloved franchise, I sure didn’t have Granblue Fantasy: Relink on my radar. This sort of sequel/spinoff for a franchise whose existence was…

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24

Jan

By Alejandro Segovia

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Review : The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered : A Dark Return

I can’t imagine a franchise nowadays that is so hard for me to praise like Naughty Dog’s The Last of Us. Looking at it holistically, Naughty Dog’s seminal action/survival horror series is what I consider the ultimate benchmark of what a quality third person, cinematic action-adventure game should be, with…

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22

Dec

By Alejandro Segovia

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Review : Avatar Frontiers of Pandora : Blue Man Group

Ask me what the plot is for James Cameron’s 2009 financial smash hit Avatar and its equally successful 2022 sequel Avatar: The Way of Water, and I basically come up empty handed without looking at Wikipedia. Other than a vague recollection of the first movie being so similar to something…

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