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Aug 5, 2024 | 
superjumpmagazine.com | Joe Richards
A steady cadence of re-releases from Nintendo over the last few years has slowly but surely shone a light on the importance of looking back in an industry consistently focused on pushing boundaries. Nintendo has therefore become a bastion of embracing the past and allowing us to actually look back on it through the prism of our modern knowledge. Nintendo’s latest example of this is visually upgrading Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, a remaster of the 2012 3DS game and sequel to the GameCube classic.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
superjumpmagazine.com | Joe Richards
Over a year since its launch, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is a rare example of a sequel that managed to invent the wheel for a second time. Where Breath of the Wild reintroduced the world to the sense of adventure that literally birthed The Legend of Zelda as we know it, Tears of the Kingdom builds upon the foundation that was laid by its predecessor and actively encourages players to go beyond the boundaries that were set in the previous title.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
superjumpmagazine.com | Bryan Finck |Joe Richards |Joshua Gautreaux |Taylor Levesque
We're back with another issue of Now Playing at SUPERJUMP! The team has been spending their time with some more obscure games lately, with a few AAA titles mixed in. Enjoy this week's entries and we'll see you back here soon with more recommendations and odes to the games we love!I've been in a gaming slump recently - my horse in Red Dead Redemption 2 must be as good as dead by now.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
superjumpmagazine.com | Joe Richards
The last few years of PlayStation exclusives have seen a distinct shift from the legacy of previous systems, being far more focused on dense realism when compared to titles from the PlayStation and PlayStation 2. While technically impressive, the shift to cinematic realism has led to the neglect of other franchises in Sony's wheelhouse.
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Mar 31, 2024 | 
superjumpmagazine.com | Joe Richards
One of the landmark titles of 2024, the team behind Final Fantasy VII Rebirth was saddled with the unenviable task of trying to recreate one of the founding fathers of the modern RPG and one of the most famous video games of all time. A follow-up to Final Fantasy VII Remake, this game sees the party emerging from the industrialised labyrinth of Midgar into the wider world, set free to explore and stop Sephiroth.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
superjumpmagazine.com | Joe Richards
Nintendo is a company that prides itself on its legacy content and has shown great respect for its pantheon of franchises throughout its 45-year history in developing video games. Moreso than other large publishers, it feels like Nintendo is satisfied with its lineup and very rarely goes out of its way to reinvent its image with a new franchise. But on the rare occasion they do, the result can be titanic, as was the case with Splatoon for the oft-maligned Wii U.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
superjumpmagazine.com | Joe Richards
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a game that needs almost no introduction. Being based on the traditional Dungeons and Dragons rule set, it burst onto the scene in August 2023 and landed with an impact that was absolutely unprecedented. It was almost impossible to not see clips of the game on social media, from exciting combat scenarios to hilarious outbursts from your party members. Baldur’s Gate 3 has it all.
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Nov 5, 2023 | 
superjumpmagazine.com | Joe Richards
ATLUS has become a household name in the gaming industry over the last few years thanks in large part to the breakout success of Persona 5. Persona as a franchise is an off-shoot of the fabled Shin Megami Tensei series but has largely ascended into its own franchise. This journey to stardom began with the release of Persona 3 on the PlayStation 2, which became a cult classic among RPG enthusiasts.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
psu.com | Joe Richards
Pizza Possum Review (PS5) – A short and sweet experience that doesn’t outstay its welcome, Pizza Possum is a delightfully offbeat stealth-action game that offers spades of personality within its short playtime as well as remarkably solid gameplay across the board. Like the food that the game is named after, Pizza Possum is a game that will have you coming back for more to go for another round after the credits roll.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
superjumpmagazine.com | Joe Richards
The end of a long story has the potential to both make and ruin someone’s experience with a title. After such time investment and emotion, the ending is what you’re left with to think about. There’s no single recipe for creating a good ending for any form of media, be it books, TV shows, films, or, in this case, video games. Yet it feels like we hold video games to a different standard than other forms of media, with the idea of an open-ended conclusion being one that few people are fond of.
