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No Man's Sky (Review from 2016)

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Preface: This is my review of No Man's Sky from its original launch back in 2016. With the demise of the Player Attack website it is no longer available in text form. As this is an older review some resources may no longer be used as described, and you can definitely meet other players and explore together these days. Hello Games have regularly updated the game since launch, with the most recent update launching yesterday. "The Swarm" calls on players to band together to defeat a foe that threatens the entire multiverse. The first planet I landed on 10 years ago.   Announced all the way back in 2013, No Man's Sky from Hello Games has been atop a lot of people's most wanted lists ever since. Promising 18 quintillion planets, crazily diverse flora and fauna and a plethora of spaceships to explore the galaxy, the game was finally scheduled for release in June! And then delayed until August because it was not quite ready. Booting into the game for the first time revea...
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Windrose (Early Access Preview)

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Do you yearn for the pirate life but the yearning is so strong you can't wait for Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced? Can I interest you in Windrose? A mixture of a fairly run of the mill survival crafting simulator with a pretty decent piratical sailing system, Windrose is surprisingly difficult to stop playing at the end of a session. The introductory cutscene for the game has your ship being boarded by a rival pirate looking to plunder some kind of mystical rock you've just discovered. While most of the game, particularly in the early sections, is grounded in reality, there are fantasy elements scattered throughout. Zombies can be found in some locations and one of the bosses, without spoiling it, definitely has some otherworldly assistance. But the gist of the game will be familiar to you if you have played any of the dozens of other survival-crafting games out there, from Minecraft to Valheim to Enshrouded. You start with nothing and must collect basic sticks and ro...
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Hello World!

Been a while since I've had a blog and even longer since I've written a blog post. Various bits of my former work are now lost to history, and I would like to bring some of them back. Old game reviews, mostly. Ones I enjoyed writing, or ones I turned out to be right about - No Man's Sky is a fantastic game and I was right to give it a positive review. There may also be some new writing appearing here from time to time. I will likely post about those on my BlueSky and Twitter accounts if/when I do. I am Mythor on both.
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