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Reviews from April – December

This is just housekeeping for the reviews I wrote last year for PopMatters, but didn’t catalog on my site. Tales from the Borderlands episode 2: Atlas Mugged Dreamfall Chapters Book Two: Rebels Game of Thrones episode 3: The Sword in the Darkness Life Is Strange™_20150328152238 Life is Strange episode 2: Out of Time Hand of Fate Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow is Today Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! | more

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The Moving Pixels Podcast Concludes Our Discussion of ‘Life is Strange’

The last episode of the Life is Strange series on the Moving Pixels Podcast. After relistening to the episode I can’t think of anything I didn’t get to express in it. Sure there’s a lot of minor observations of craft and plenty of tertiary narrative lines left by the wayside, but we hit all the major points. Either in this episode or in the prior ones. Life is Strange is, frankly, a rather dense work and an hour and half may not be enough to cover everything. | more

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Life Gets Stranger

And we’re back to our series of podcast on Life is Strange. Do ignore that the title is the same as the last episode on the game. It’s been a while. This episode was recorded before the release of episode 5 and I was surprised how prescient a lot of our observations and predictions were. Even more so is that while we were right, it’s that we were also oh so wrong given how it all ended up turning out. Also, interesting how episode 5 turns some of our discussion moot. | more

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Life Gets Stranger

Episode 3 of our look through Life is Strange. This might be one of my favorite podcast episodes I’ve been on. A good 45 minutes, a good half of the episode, is spent discussing the theoretical and philosophical nature of photography as a medium and its relation back to the … (This post is lost beyond this point.) Moving Pixels Podcast: Life Gets Stranger » PopMatters "Max Caulfield, moral avenger. Or self-righteous hypocrite?" | more

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Sometimes It’s Hard to Discover That ‘Life is Strange’

We continue our series on the episodic adventure game Life is Strange, with episode 2. This episode of the podcast does deserve a trigger warning for discussion of sexual assault, rape and suicide. Not necessarily connected or in that order. The discussion got a bit heated in the middle over one of the choices in the game and the implications several of us felt that they reflected in the real world. | more

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Coming of Age When ‘Life is Strange’

And so begins another series of podcasts, episode by episode, of another episodic adventure game. This time it is Dontnod’s Life is Strange. I’ve been hoping at some point we’d get to talk about Life is Strange. Ever since I first played it back in January. Though I was a little down on it at first, the game offered a lot of material worthy of discussion. It’s a dense game with multiple lens that can be applied to it. | more

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Reviews for January/February/March

A new year, a new slate of games to review. A bit of a theme going on here. 2015 starts off with 4 new episodic games and my attempts to review every single episode of each one. All of Telltale games, so far, are licensed games. It’s difficult not to frame their game in the light of the licensed property. I may have gone a bit too far with my Tales from the Borderlands review, but I really do not like the main Borderlands games and Tales by comparison, I am enjoying so much. | more