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SNES Essentials: Star Fox 2
Nintendo’s new miniature SNES Classic system is here, and it’s a historically significant release for one big reason: Star Fox 2. Fully developed but never released due to its completion near the end...
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Space Live: Flawless Fanservice
Sometimes a good palate-cleanser is just what the doctor ordered, and that’s exactly what Space Live: Advent of the Net Idols provides. Developed as a West-first release by a collaborative effort...
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Waifu Wednesday: Rin Tohsaka
As we bid a fond farewell to September’s Cover Game Fate/stay night, it’s only fitting that we celebrate one of this incredible visual novel’s most enduringly popular waifus. Rin Tohsaka is a constant...
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Ridge Racer: Where it All Began
Namco’s Ridge Racer may have declined somewhat in terms of popularity and relevance at the time of writing, but there’s little denying that during its heyday, this series was one of the most important...
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Winged Sakura: Endless Dream – Dungeons and Defenses
Let’s get one thing out of the way up front, because it seems to be a common point of confusion if Steam reviews are anything to go by. The Winged Sakura series is not the same as the Sakura series....
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Rage Racer: Point of Divergence
While the arcade installment Ridge Racer 2 and its home conversion of sorts Ridge Racer Revolution went in slightly different directions, it was the third “generation” of Ridge Racer games where the...
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Waifu Wednesday: Reiko Nagase
It’s Ridge Racer month here on MoeGamer, and you didn’t think I was going to let Reiko Nagase slip by unnoticed, did you? First appearing in Rage Racer’s CG intro (or perhaps Rave Racer’s attract mode,...
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Ridge Racer Type 4: Real Racing Roots ’99
1998’s Ridge Racer Type 4 is the quintessential PS1 game. Perfectly embodying the spirit of late ’90s “cool” that Sony was so keen to pursue with its platform, particularly in the West, the game is...
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SNES Essentials: Super Mario World
One of the biggest sources of playground arguments in my youth was whether Super Mario World or Sonic the Hedgehog was “better”. I owned a SNES, so I should have been firmly in the Team Mario camp, but...
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Doki Doki Literature Club: Cute Girls Write Poems
I normally don’t bother with spoiler warnings here on MoeGamer, since it should be fairly apparent that in the process of analysing certain works in depth, “spoilers” are something of a necessity. I...
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Ridge Racer V: Back to Basics
Ridge Racer V was an important game for Namco. Not only was it to be a follow-up to the incredibly well-received and popular Ridge Racer Type 4, it would also be the first installment of the series on...
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Waifu Wednesday: Ist
Dungeon Travelers 2 is one of the best dungeon-crawlers of all time — I’d even go so far as to say it’s one of my favourite RPGs I’ve ever played. A significant part of the reason for why I regard it...
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Ridge Racer 6: PlayStation Who?
It was a good five years between Ridge Racer V helping to launch the PlayStation 2 and the next mainline numbered installment in the series. In the intervening years we had a couple of spinoff games...
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You Can Keep Your “Games as a Service”, I’m Fine with Single-Player, Thanks
EA’s recent announcement that it was shuttering Visceral and “pivoting” (ugh) the Amy Hennig-fronted narrative-centric single-player Star Wars project it had been working on probably didn’t come as a...
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Blogwarming Party!
Hi everyone, just a quickie for a now — a full article is coming later today, but I wanted to bring this up while it was fresh in my mind! MoeGamer has kind of stood by itself for a while as I wanted...
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Ridge Racer 7: The New “Revolution”
Almost exactly a year after its previous installment, Ridge Racer got another mainline entry — a title which marked the franchise’s return to Sony platforms after its temporary dalliance with...
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The Death of a Community
The last few years have been a strange time for the gaming community at large — if such a thing even exists as a single entity any more — with one of the most surprising incidents being the apparent...
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Waifu Wednesday: Alice Kamishiro
It’s the last Waifu Wednesday before Halloween, so who better to explore this week than an honest to goodness witch? Alice Kamishiro is one of the central characters of minori’s Supipara, a proposed...
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Ridge Racer Unbounded: The Black Sheep
Over the last decade, we’ve seen a lot of series attempt to “reboot” themselves for one reason or another. In many cases, this is an excuse to go back to older games and remake them with a more modern...
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Extra Life: Game Day is Soon!
November 4 is Game Day for this year’s Extra Life — at least for me. You can find some information about the event and my contribution to it on my fundraising page — as well as make a pledge — but...
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