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Sabe Jones

@elseleth

A demiboy here to chill and share thoughts, mostly about games! He/she/they, all good.

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Sabe Jones
@elseleth Jul 28, 2020, 6:04 PM UTC

Justice Bundle Reviews #13: Manual Intervention

Manual Intervention by Spannerworx lives in the comfy realm of "updated classics". As Nova Drift is to Asteroids, so Manual Intervention is to Missile Command, overhauling the basic "shoot down bombs…

7 upvotes 1 replies $0.04
Sabe Jones
@elseleth Jul 26, 2020, 4:45 PM UTC

Justice Bundle Reviews #12: Dead Pixels

When my wife looked over my shoulder and saw Dead Pixels by CSR Studios, she remarked, "Wow, you're actually playing a zombie game?" It's true, I'd gotten very tired of the zombie trope package, to t…

4 upvotes 0 replies $0.03
Sabe Jones
@elseleth Jul 25, 2020, 2:00 PM UTC

Justice Bundle Reviews #11: Long Gone Days

For as much as the "JRPG" genre differs from the "western RPG", the two tend to share tropes at the high-concept level, both featuring swords and magic deployed against wildly nonhuman monsters. Long…

3 upvotes 0 replies $0.00
Sabe Jones
@elseleth Jul 24, 2020, 1:18 AM UTC

Justice Bundle Reviews #10: A Short Hike

I don't get along especially well with "sandbox" games. An open world with lots to do, like Horizon Zero Dawn, sure--but inevitably, I get 50-75% of the way through clearing assorted quests and map m…

3 upvotes 0 replies $0.03
Sabe Jones
@elseleth Jul 22, 2020, 5:53 PM UTC

Justice Bundle Reviews #9: Sky Rogue

I've had a theory of sorts bouncing around my head that ended up relevant to my experience of Sky Rogue by Fractal Phase. It goes like this: advancing in a video game requires some mix of luck, techn…

4 upvotes 0 replies $0.00
Sabe Jones
@elseleth Jul 21, 2020, 12:50 PM UTC

Justice Bundle Reviews #8: The Testimony of Trixie Glimmer Smith

Creators Digital Poppy have over time built up an oeuvre called the Bluehills County Stories, with three noteworthy features: furry characters, Lovecraftian cosmic horror, and unapologetic queerness.…

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Sabe Jones
@elseleth Jul 21, 2020, 12:10 AM UTC

Justice Bundle Reviews #7: Highway Blossoms

I've appreciated the sheer variety of items in the Racial Justice Bundle. The first games I picked out were quick-play shmups; then I played some meatier action and exploration titles; then recently…

3 upvotes 0 replies $0.01
Sabe Jones
@elseleth Jul 20, 2020, 4:02 PM UTC

Justice Bundle Reviews #6: 10S

Itch has a reputation for hosting weird games. Half-finished prototypes, entries for high-concept game jams, pornographic visual novels, whatever! I find it delightful, a hotbed of creativity unrestr…

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Sabe Jones
@elseleth Jul 19, 2020, 11:25 PM UTC

Justice Bundle Reviews #5: Haque

Ever since the Chainmail era of fantasy wargames, fantastical hacky-slashy RPGs have grappled with the conceit of "magic" as "the ability to hurl battlefield-leveling artillery from one's bare hands"…

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Sabe Jones
@elseleth Jul 19, 2020, 5:52 PM UTC

Justice Bundle Reviews #4: Switch 'N' Shoot

As an 80's child, I barely missed the heyday of the video arcade. I fondly remember a couple of glorious birthday parties at a local Atari-branded mall spot, burning bags of tokens on Turtles in Time…

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