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Normally I like to finish a game before I write about it. Not obliterate it to 100% completion or anything, but I at least like to get through the story. Sometimes a game comes along that almost seems to not want me to finish it. Sometimes the difficulty will spike dramatically out of nowhere and require hours of grinding or the sandbox world will open up with no indication of where to go next. I just don’t have time for that. Then there’s a game like Boktai: the Sun is in Your Hand that has a very distinct method of slowing its story to a crawl. READ MORE

Everyone’s got that friend. You know the one. Whenever you go to his house you peruse his entertainment center and repeatedly ask yourself, “What the hell is this?” Movies from faraway lands, books that were printed once before the publishing company burned down and games that were released for a console you’ve never even heard of. If you didn’t have that friend before, you certainly do now. My name is Matthew Jay, and I favor the obscure. Please like me?

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