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[VIDEO TRANSCRIPT] The credits are rolling on Final fantasy 7 remake and I loved it… But maybe for reasons you don't expect I avoided playing Final Fantasy VII Remake for a long time. But not because of some unhealthy affinity for the original. I believe change is almost always good. Loving something isn't a reason to keep that something from evolving into something else. That's basically Munchhausen syndrome by proxy. You know, that mental condition whereby a healthy person is tricked by a crazy person into feeling unhealthy. By loving the original Final Fantasy VII to the exclusion of Final Fantasy VII Remake you're defining something so specifically that it depends on you in order to be relevant. That's a selfish outlook.

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I heard that The Suicide of Rachel Foster is a lot like What Remains of Edith Finch, so I knew I had to play it because I love seeing games fail to be greater than the greatest game of all time. I’m probably approaching this game unfairly, huh?

The credits are rolling on a really fun first-person puzzle game with a science fiction motif in which advanced AI-turned-fully-sentient machines have caused problems and humans have to use their uniquely capable human brains to save themselves, ultimately encouraging the player to ask “what’s really the difference between people and robots?” Though the game traffics in themes, genres, and styles that plenty of other games have trafficked in before (Portal, Portal 2, Q.U.B.E, Q.U.B.E 2, The Talos Principle), I happily jumped into The Turing Test with the same amount of vigor and excitement I will continue to do so for every one of the inevitable forthcoming games that do this exact same thing. I like narrative games. Story in games is often the glue that holds the pieces together and keeps the single-player gamer invested. I like puzzle games. They are slow-paced and they make me feel really smart. But…

Rage 2 could have been such a recommendable game. I played for 26 hours and had lots of fun for that entire time...until, a game-breaking bug prevented the final mission from loading. Again, the game is super fun, and I think you should play it, but only do so if buying a used copy or borrowing from a friend. Don't buy a new copy. It's hard to support a publisher like Bethesda when they sell games that literally cannot be completed. Watch the rest of the Game's Over Video Game Reviews here at this YouTube playlist.

I went into Death Stranding with some hesitation. Would it be a game I'd actually appreciate, considering I haven't played a Hideo Kojima game since the first hour of Metal Gear Solid 2? Would I be aware enough of Kojima's crazy style to really understand Death Stranding? Well, no, I don't think I'll ever understand Death Stranding, but I did love playing the game. And who would have thought I'd ever play a multiplayer game (if this can truly be called a multiplayer game).

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