The Broken Sword review
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The Broken Sword was written around the same time as The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and the Fellowship of the Ring, and is a foundational heroic fantasy novel, but unfortunately hasn't reached the same level of mainstream success as those novels despite being very on par in quality.
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Schildmaid MX
| Category: game library project | Tags: pc, gaming
Schildmaid MX is a cool horizontal shmup with some nice art and a few different gameplay modes.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
| Category: game library project | Tags: pc, gaming
WH 40k Space Marine is a bit of a cult classic. It's a nice 7.5 game, a decent shooter that's been given more of a spotlight with the recent release of Space Marine 2.
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One Piece vol 2 review
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Since finishing Dragon Ball, I decided to pick One Piece back up, and it's a lot of fun. In this second volume we meet some new characters, expand our crew, and fight some bad guys. It's classic shonen stuff, but it's done well and it's fun.
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Dragon Ball vol 16 review
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The final volume of original Dragon Ball, and it's just as fun as all the other volumes. Here we get the final confrontation between Goku and Piccolo. It's fun to see Piccolo as an evil character - he's much different than his character in Z and despite being a big fan of Z I really didn't know his...
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Annihilation review
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This one wasn't for me. An abrupt ending, very little in the way of explanations, and an increasingly unreliable narrator lead to a novel that, for me, was pretty unsatisfying.
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