Let’s Play Halo 5: Guardians – Part 13: Overprotective Much

The Warden urges Cortana to reject Master Chief

The Warden takes drastic measures to keep Blue Team from Cortana.

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Let’s Play Halo 5: Guardians – Part 12: It’s the Stop That Gets You

Locke tries to carefully descend down the Guardian.

Osiris arrives on Genesis and makes a new friend.

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Let’s Play Halo 5: Guardians – Part 11: Hitch A Ride

With the help of the Promethean Repair Droid, it’s time to hitch a ride on a Guardian to wherever Master Chief & Blue Team went.

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Let’s Play Halo 5: Guardians – Part 10: Sink the Kraken!

In order to get that Repair Bot, we have to bring down a Covenant Kraken.

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Let’s Play Halo 5: Guardians – Part 8: Old Friends

Blue Team reunites with Cortana, while Osiris races to save the Arbiter.

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Let’s Play Halo 5: Guardians – Part 7: Not in Kansas Anymore

Blue Team arrives on the Forerunner Planet.

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Shadowrun: Hong Kong – Video Game Review

The first two parts of what I’d call the “Shadowrun Returns Trilogy” – Shadowrun: Dead Man’s Switch, and Shadowrun: Dragonfall, showed steady improvement over their earlier installments, reaching a zenith in Shadowrun: Hong Kong. Dead Man’s Switch re-introduced the game mechanics and the world of Shadowrun to video games after decades of absence, along with telling a story that adapted parts of the setting that hadn’t been adapted before.

Dragonfall, for the first time, took Shadowrun, in video game form, out of Seattle – and in the process gave some fanservice to the game’s very vocal German fan base. It also demonstrated elements of the evolution of PC RPGs that the first game lacked – regular party members each with their motivations and story, along with quests specific to those characters that helped to progress their story. However, both games had some mechanical hiccups that made them frustrating to play.

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GBP: Pool of Radiance Part 10 – Wealthy Area and the Temple of Bane

These two city hexes are effectively linked, in the sense that one cannot be cleared without the other, and both are light on fixed encounters, so I’m covering them here in one combined post.

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Let’s Play Halo 5: Guardians: Part 6 – Symphony of Destruction

The “Guardian” is blasting off from the planet, with Blue Team on board. Meanwhile, Osiris Team has to make their own escape.

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Let’s Play Halo 5: Guardians: Part 5 – Delved Too Deep

Osiris Team discovers that the locals managed to find some Promethean Ruins underneath the colony, and heads there to investigate further.

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Let’s Play Halo 5: Guardians: Part 4 – On the Raggedy Edge

While on the trail of Blue Team, Osiris Team tracks them to an independent colony that is being attacked by the Prometheans.

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Let’s Play Halo 5: Guardians: Part 3 – The One-Armed Scientist

Blue Team finishes its mission, only to discover some information to cause Master Chief to have them go AWOL.

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GBP: Pool of Radiance Part 9 – Valhaigen Graveyard

The Valhaigen Graveyard is probably one of the more frustrating parts of the game thus far, and definitely, one that I probably could not have beaten had I not been using the Gold Box Companion software. It’s also one where I’m probably going to misspell the name of the area repeatedly as I make my way through the article.

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Viewtiful Joe: Video Game Review

For the past month or so I’ve been doing Let’s Play streams of Viewtiful Joe, a 2.5D character action game from Clover Studios. Now that I’ve beaten the game and the last edited installments have gone up, it’s time for me to give my thoughts on the game as a whole.

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Let’s Play Halo 5: Guardians: Part 2 – Children of the Grave

Meanwhile, Blue Team, led by the Master Chief, is doing a search and destroy mission.

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Let’s Play Halo 5: Guardians: Part 1 – Or the Rescue is Free

We’re introduced to Osiris Team engaging in an extraction deep behind enemy lines.

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Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 93

We return to our regular episodes with two streetball basketball games – one with NBA stars, one with Looney Tunes characters. If there was only some way to get them to meet…

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