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Before going into the Deep Roads to hunt for fame and fortune, you (as Hawke) have a big decision to make: whether or not to take your only surviving sibling with you. If you started Dragon Age II as a warrior or rogue, then Bethany is the one who will survive the journey to Kirkwall to face the consequences of this fateful decision.

This review covers the three possible outcomes of that decision, but we leave it up to you to decide which you would most prefer to follow. And if you’re able to import your save into Dragon Age: Inquisition, then you’ll even hear about her fate post-game from Varric and/or Hawke directly.

Otherwise, if you choose a mage at the outset, Bethany will instead get squished by an ogre, leaving you with Carver. And nobody wants that.

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4cr Plays - Sam & Max Save the World (Switch)

I know that this is 2020-brain talking to some extent, but 2006 feels like a lifetime ago. I guess it basically was. My cell phone was just a phone, I had way fewer aches and pains, and Sam & Max Season 1, Episode 1 (later retitled to Sam & Max Save the World) was blasting across my tiny CRT monitor - here to herald in the age of episodic gaming, games presented just like we watched TV!

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4cr Plays - Pixel Puzzle Makeout League (Switch)

Hi, so, yes, this is a little awkward. It has been awhile, hasn’t it, since my last post on this blog? I’m sure you have many questions.

“How are you?” “Did you catch Covid-19?” “Where is my money?”

Or, more likely, “Are you really popping in after a couple of months of inactivity to discuss a hybrid of Picross and a dating sim?”

The answer to that, dear readers, is yes. Fuck, yes. I am a fiend for Picross - logic puzzles where you fill in a pixel image based on numeric clues (also known by nonograms, pixel puzzles, and other names). I dove immediately from replaying the fantastic Mario’s Super Picross (available for Switch Online subscribers in the SNES app - it is a must-play!) into the subject of this post, Pixel Puzzle Makeout League.

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Many puzzles in Myst require reading, investigation, and critical thinking to solve, and cannot be guessed through brute force. However, the design of the final puzzle doesn’t require playing much of the game to complete once you know the answer. As a result, it’s possible to complete Myst in under five minutes without ever visiting any of the other ages simply by remembering the three of the solutions.

We’ll show you the answers to those puzzles, and a handful of the versions of this game where it works – which, at this point, is all of them. But, more importantly, we’ll discuss that while this is mechanically possible to do, it doesn’t detract from the wonder and design of the game, nor diminish the experience of playing it.

Watch the full video: https://youtu.be/k_b0GZZD9CM

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Star Fox 2 was a game that lived in rumors, and some ill-gotten ROMs, for decades before it became the flagship title for the SNES Classic Edition mini console. With its subsequent release on Nintendo Switch Online, gamers today can re-live this piece of video game history on contemporary hardware.

We review the game on its merits nearly 25 years after it should have been originally released, noting the elements lifted and reworked for Star Fox 64 less than a year later. With gameplay and a story so wildly different from the original, did Nintendo get cold feet as their 16-bit era dominance was coming to an end, or were there other factors at play?

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4cr Plays - Ruiner (Switch)

Ruiner, a cyberpunk-themed action game from Polish studio Reikon Games (published by Devolver Digital), was first released back in 2017. I completely missed out on it at the time, but a Nintendo Switch version was released a few weeks back.

As a big fan of the genre - Blade Runner is one of my favorite movies of all time - I thought I should give it a try. Read on for my impressions.

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4cr Plays - The Almost Gone (Switch)

The Almost Gone opens with you, our protagonist, alone in a dreamlike version of your bedroom where everything is - somehow - so close to correct while also being so very, very wrong. The doors are locked, the windows show a black void, tree roots are bursting through the walls, and you can’t help but feel a lurking dread behind every door. You realize that something is wrong, very wrong, and that the path forward requires understanding what happened to you and your family. Isolated and alone, you are pushed forward by a promise - that safety lies in the treehouse. Getting there will prove to be quite the journey, requiring that you solve some dastardly puzzles and uncover the disturbing secrets hidden by each member of your family.

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4cr Plays - Piczle Cross Adventure (Switch)

I am a nonogram fanatic. I don’t know what exactly it is about the things, but I just can’t get enough of the little draw-by-numbers puzzles. Few games suck me in as intensely as a good Picross (or the indie equivalent).

In the past, I thought I was more-or-less alone in this. Nonogram games were few and far between. I even found myself hunting down ROMs of Picross games released for the Satellaview broadcast service for the Super Famicom just go get my fix! Now, on the Switch, there are so many nonogram games coming out that I have actually found myself falling slightly behind!

The latest twist are games that wed nonograms with a broader gameplay structure torn from another genre. The ingenious Murder by Numbers combined nonograms with a visual novel revolving around solving crimes. The recent PictoQuest merged nonograms with RPG mechanics. Now, we have Piczle Cross Adventure, which places the puzzles within a story-driven 2D adventure.

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4cr Plays - Dungeon of the Endless (Switch)

Dungeon of the Endless first launched on PC way back in 2014. At the time, rouge-likes were certainly a Thing, as were tower defense games. However, the unholy union of the two was fresh, and the game found a devoted audience. Now, in 2020, Dungeon of the Endless has been brought to the PS4 and the Switch.

After nearly six years - and after seemingly thousands of rouge-likes - how does it fare? Does it hold up after all of this time? Read on for my impressions of the Switch version.

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4cr Plays - Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition (Switch)

The developers of Ara Fell: Enhanced Edition promise something grand in their description of the game on the Nintendo eShop - a sweeping adventure combining the best of Japanese and western RPGs while blazing a new path forwards. I sat down with the game, recently released on the Switch, to put it through its paces.

While it doesn’t really deliver on the lavish prose in the game’s store page, Ara Fell is a charming throwback to 16-bit era JRPGs that is nicely paced and applies a few refreshing twists on the traditional gameplay of the genre. Read on for my impressions.

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