★★☆☆☆

"marine salvage for gamers."

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elon musk bought twitter. what next?

★★★★☆

"pushes the boundaries."

the "four minutes" restriction might seem rather arbitrary in english, but it makes more sense in japanese: the word 「四(しshi)」, which means "four", is pronounced the same as the word 「死(しshi)」, which means "death." ²: then known as gamasutra. ³: because many of them were only available in japanese. ⁴: due to a complex set of reasons involving their being japanese and their not resembling the adventure games of the 1990s by virtue of having solved the problems that had come to define "adventure games" in 2009. ⁵: though don't be fooled into thinking i don't like 90s lucasarts adventure games. i recently completed a four-year long quest to finish grim fandango playing each in-game year only on four successive days of the dead.

game review: ghost trick: phantom detective

★★★★☆

"travels back in time to undo the death of the adventure game."

★★★☆☆

"not a roguelike, just an amusement park ride."