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It’s been three and a half years since the last fresh Mario game,
Super Mario Odyssey, arrived on the then-new Switch, heralding Nintendo’s latest efforts to mine new gameplay ideas out of a 40-year-old tradesman and his magical talking hat. That same period has seen the company engage in one of its periodic bouts of backwards-looking nostalgia-mining, retreading old territory with fancy, “new,” and annoyingly limited releases of Mario’s 3D adventures with
Super Mario 64,
Super Mario Sunshine, and
Super Mario Galaxy. But the regressive streak was broken last week sort of with the release of the company’s updated remaster of
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Back in the day, was there a man on the planet who could make getting his ass kicked look better than Harrison Ford? Much ink has been spilled about the man’s undeniable
Star Wars era-swagger, but the key to his most iconic performances came from a different direction: That hint, always hiding around the eyes, that Han Solo or Indiana Jones know exactly how full of shit their shows of heroic bravado really were.
I’ve been thinking about Indy a lot lately, ever since news broke earlier this week that Machine Games was making a new game about everyone’s favorite fedora-toting Mutt Dad. It’s a bit of an odd fit: Machine is largely known, at this point, for 2014’s
No, I’ve been having actual, genuine, “Hey, video games!” fun with
Cyberpunk 2077, which I played a great many hours of over the holiday season. (With a great many attendant crashes because, well, yeah.) I can’t speak for other paths, but playing through the world of Night City as a high-level hacker turns out to actually be kind of a blast: Once you get out to the edges of the game’s Intelligence skill trees (and buy a better cyberdeck than the extremely limited POS you start with), your character starts picking up abilities that essentially turn you into a digital wizard. It’s gotten to the point where my version of personality-optional mercenary V doesn’t even bother entering the buildings he’s been asked to infiltrate, more often than not. Instead, I’ll Ping an external camera to see everyone inside the facility, find a crowded group to upload a spreading, poison-spewing Contagion on, neutralize any high-level targets by literally shutting off their brains, an