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Kirby and the Forgotten Land review

October 7, 2023 | Reading time: 2 minutes

I've beaten Kirby and the Forgotten Land, and my thoughts echo those I had a week ago in my first impressions post. Forgotten Land is a nice evolution for Kirby while keeping the core gameplay the same. It's a fun, charming, and accessible game that should be a nice stepping stone for future...

The Rising review

September 25, 2023 | Reading time: 2 minutes

A small improvement over the first novel that drives the plot forward and has a pretty satisfying ending, which is pretty rare for middle books in a trilogy. Our main cast returns, with Hugo Longchamp being made a POV character and given lots of screentime.

Starfield review

September 17, 2023 | Reading time: 4 minutes

A huge game with all the Bethesda trappings that somehow manages to feel really small. This is Bethesda's biggest game to date, with a thousand planets and hundreds of named characters and quest. All the marketing pointed to there being an entire universe full of interesting things to explore. The...

The Rise of Kyoshi review

September 16, 2023 | Reading time: ~1 minute

The Rise of Kyoshi is a tie-in prequel novel set in the world of Avatar: The Last Airbender. While ATLA is one of, if not the best, animated shows of all time, I was expecting a ton out of this one. I've read a few tie-in books and novelizations of other media and I'm usually unimpressed.

The Mechanical review

September 7, 2023 | Reading time: 2 minutes

An interesting novel that was more than I expected, with plenty of room to improve. From the Goodreads blurb I thought this was a run of the mill robot uprising scfi story. What I got instead was an alternate history where the Dutch rule the world on the backs of sentient robot slaves and the other...

Lord of the Silver Bow review

August 27, 2023 | Reading time: 2 minutes

Fantastic heroic fantasy (historical fiction this time around) from David Gemmell, who is quickly becoming the face of the genre for me. I'd previously only read Legend, written some 20 years before this novel, and there's a very clear step up here in writing quality and characterization. The...

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My name's Mike, and this is the Lore Repository - my spot online where I can write out my thoughts on games, books, tech, movies, and anything else I find interesting.

My biggest project is my Game Library Project. I have a ton of games collected throughout the years, and have barely played any of them. Check out the linked post to learn more about the project, and click here to be taken to the category page where you can see all my posts for the project.

Another project I'm working on is my Pokemon Living Dex Challenge, where I try to obtain one of each available Pokemon and transfer them into Pokemon Home.

Yet another project I'm working on is my Old School RuneScape "Completionist" Quest, where I'm attempting to max out all skills and see everything the game has to offer as a completely new player.

Other content comes mainly in 3 forms:
• Reviews, where I post longer-form review writeups
• Thoughts, short & quick first impressions posts
• Guides, detailed how-tos and walkthroughs

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