Richard & Alice Review

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By Omar (@siegarettes)

  • Richard & Alice
  • Developer - Owl Cave (Ashton Raze & Lewis Denby)
  • Publisher - Mastertronic
  • PC (Direct from Developer, Steam)
  • Rating - N/A

Does RIchard & Alice need to be a videogame? Visually rough, running on the conventions of nearly archaic adventure games, its presentation speaks of a more handicraft approach in a landscape where indie megaliths are quickly approaching the visual flair and polish of their big budget counterparts. By contrast R&A’s artwork is basic, representational. The soundtrack is part composed works and royalty free, and I suspect that a version of Adventure Game Studio is running underneath. 

What’s left to hold it together then, is its writing, an element that videogames have often been anemic of good examples. 

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Top 5? More like my top 6.

By Kevin (@prufesuroak)

Keeping in the spirit of the previous article published by another clickbliss staffer. Here lay a list of my all time favorite albums. These are in my opinion the most “complete” albums that whoever artist they are from. These are in no particular order either. Also there are a lot more albums I could’ve chosen or put on this list but I decided to choose a few that will best showcase my taste.

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My favorite 6.

By: RJ (@rga_02)

My taste could be either considered as generic hipster trash to some, while others might view my taste for the plebeians in their patrician eyes. Regardless of ones opinion, music is still music. You listen to a song to unwind at the end of the day. To have fun, or to have you thinking. And the following albums get that job done for me. 

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Monument Valley Review

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By Kevin (@prufesuroak)

  • Monument Valley
  • Developer - Ustwo
  • Publisher - Ustwo
  • iOS, Android (Reviewed on iOS - iPad)
  • Rating - N/A

How would I sum up Monument Valley in a sentence? It is a minimalistic, “pop-arty”, puzzle platformer.

You play Ida, a princess. Ida seems to be on a mission through the “Monument Valley” entering door after door, avoiding Crow after Crow, climbing stair after stair, until you end up where Ida needs to be which at first is very much unclear, there is a clue on one of the chapters, but you won’t really see why she’s on a journey until the very end.

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Dong Review

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By: RJ (@rga_02)

  • Dong
  • Developer - Garrett Lenk
  • Publisher - Garrett Lenk
  • PlayStation Vita
  • Rating - E

The Sydney Opera House, The Great Pyramids, The Bean. All will represent their respective locations with pride and joy. And Dong will perhaps represent the PS Vita with the same resentment. Dong is nothing original - yet it’s something blissful. Something alluring just screams out of it. And it’s all through the palm of your hands.

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The Floor is Jelly Review

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By Omar (@siegarettes)

  • The Floor is Jelly
  • Developer - Ian Snyder
  • Publisher - Ian Snyder
  • PC (Windows)
  • Available direct from developer and on Steam

The Floor is Jelly is part of what I like to call “gallery games”. It sits alongside titles such as PixelJunk Eden, Nidhogg, and Proteus as games that would feel just as at home in a gallery as the screen in front of you. It’s a game that takes the titular concept and builds a world around the idea, inviting you to explore and understand it.

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Mario Kart 8 Review

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By: RJ (@rga_02)

  • Mario Kart 8
  • Developer - Nintendo EAD 
  • Publisher - Nintendo 
  • Nintendo Wii U
  • Rating - E

 As I write this review, I started to remember the days when I would go to my cousin’s house to play Mario Kart 64. I believe I was the only Nintendo 64 owner who didn’t own a copy of that game. I had another kart racer. It was Diddy Kong Racing, which in my mind was the objectively superior kart racer - and still is. I’ve never thought much of the Mario Kart franchise. But I’d still play them because they present fun that only Nintendo can deliver. And several years later from the moment I first won against my cousin in Toad’s Turnpike, that magic is still in present in the tracks of Mario Kart 8.

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Disco isn’t Gay

by Kevin (@prufesuroak)

I’m proud to say that I enjoy listening to ABBA, The Bee Gees, Barry White and tons more. Here I am a proud Hard Rock fan, admitting my fondness to Disco, because what is Disco anyways but just a Funk-Latin fusion.

With anything there are always those elitist know-it-all’s who think they know better than you and think that they’re ambassadors for taste. So this his post really isn’t about my love for Disco, but rather my rant on elitism within musical genres.

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