"Echo Weaver" supplies the tools, but you discover how to use them

A new top-tier metroidbrainia has arrived!

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david.reviews: Strange Antiquities

★★★★: I liked the jump in complexity as compared to its predecessor. The story offered meaningful choices and engaging puzzle gameplay. There was the occasional dud where we had to guess, but most of ...

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david.reviews: Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief

★★★★: A delightful continuation of a series that's quickly become a favorite. I appreciate his commitment to fair-play mysteries even if I basically never solve much myself. The clues are there if you...

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david.reviews: Free Guy

★★☆☆: A fun premise that actually seemed like it was written by someone who had played a videogame. Loved the idea of sentient NPCs. Lots of cute visual references and nods to existing games. But the ...

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david.reviews: Divinity: Original Sin II

★★★★: An impressive, overwhelming experience. The world is huge and absolutely stuffed with quests, characters, battles, and secrets. Its open-endedness is pretty staggering- there's a bunch of ways t...

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david.reviews: Stamptown

★★★★: Extraordinary in its chaos. Zucker is the perfect (sort of) straight man amongst the other acts. Though I didn't love every one of them, everything moved so quickly that there wasn't time to dwe...

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david.reviews: 20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes

★★★★: Another delightful outing from FLEB. Pint sized, clever, and beautifully put together as always. Can't beat the price either! (free) Has great Steam Controller support, too!

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david.reviews: Split Fiction

★★★★: An absolute delight. Much like previous Hazelight titles, the gameplay is varied, co-operative, and inventive. I liked the asymmetry of it all- each player has their own overlapping puzzles and ...

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20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes on Steam

A puzzle game with twenty small mazes.

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david.reviews: Hadestown: The Musical

★★★★: Raises the bar for musical proshots. Has a great mix of close and wide shots, letting you see both the face acting that would be hard to spot from the audience and the grandeur of the motion on ...

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"He Who Watches" disrespects gravity

It's both easier and harder than it looks.

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david.reviews: Practical Magic

★★☆☆: A funny mishmash of genres. Bothered me less than movies like A Simple Favor, but it also made the film feel disjoint. There are a lot of moving pieces that acknowledge each other rather than bu...

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david.reviews: Hackers

★★★★: On its surface, it's sort of a doofy movie. The typing scenes are overwrought and there's an undercurrent of casual misogyny that probably fit right into 90 hacker culture. I didn't really get i...

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david.reviews: The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook

★★★★: Does a good job smoothing out the detail while focusing on the big picture. I love the media / "the revolution will be televised" angle and the intergalactic worldbuilding. Growing the ensembl...

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david.reviews: 1000xResist

★★★☆: Tells an ambitious story that I mostly enjoyed. Its non-linear narrative works well to keep everything mysterious while still being engaging. Its high concept world works well as a setting and t...

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david.reviews: Ender's Shadow

★★★★: Provides a perfect foil to the original novel. I liked Bean as a character explaining so much of his inner monologue and the political machinations around him. Some of the plotlines get wrapped ...

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david.reviews: Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

★★★★: An excellent action RPG. Loved the breezy island setting and the exploration aspect. Finding castaways to grow your base who also act as shopkeepers is brilliant design- it helps your exploratio...

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david.reviews: Thunderball

★★★★: I think it's got the worst treatment of its female characters of the Bonds so far, but everything else kind of rocks. The underwater scenes are cool and the plot felt like it had real stakes whi...

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david.reviews: Spider-Man: No Way Home

★★★★: Manages to stand on its own as a touching action movie, but also cash in on nearly 20 years of Spider-Men in film. It's just such a delight. A crushing, emotional delight.

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david.reviews: Echo Isle

★★★☆: A compact, classic-Zelda inspired adventure game. I like that it followed the classic formula well: 4 little dungeons, each with an upgrade and a boss. True to its word, there's no fluff. A sin...

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david.reviews: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

★★☆☆: As an unapologetic lover of the Pirates movies, this one is always a bit of a letdown. It's got its moments and a top tier cast (as usual) but it's a little too cheeky. It treads on winks to the...

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david.reviews: The Parent Trap

★★★★: Perfectly paced. Great performances all around. Lots of cute moments. Some truly dangerous pranks. Where are the adults at the camp??

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david.reviews: Goldfinger

★★★★: Still a little goofy in that way 60s movies were, but has a pretty straightforward plot and some fun action. Good humor too, he's cheeky. The series is really starting to come together!

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david.reviews: Enola Holmes 3

★★★★: Returned to the frenetic pace of the first one, which I like. It dipped a bit, especially with so many flashback clips. But the story was good and it was a light, exciting watch.

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david.reviews: Fail Fail Succeed

★★★☆: Cute little puzzle platformer where dying with an ability alters leaves something behind to help you solve puzzles. Neat concept, but (despite the cute dog) not really something I'd spend a ton ...

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david.reviews: Jurassic Park

★★★★: RIP Sam Neill. Great movie though, per usual. So many fun details. And wild how it just established what a T-Rex sounds like. Everyone just agrees now.

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"The Incident at Galley House" reimagines a modern classic

A non-linear story that you have to piece together makes for a superb time.

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david.reviews: Drop Duchy

★★★★: Excellent strategy game that mixes Tetris and deckbuilding. Shouldn't work as well as it does, but it's a hoot. There's a pretty good variety of deck archetypes and you can combine them in inter...

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