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467 (<a href="https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10013260/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PlayStation 5</a>, <a href="https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/crimson-moon/9nmdsxmvqtn4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Xbox Series X|S</a>, <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/4317690/Crimson_Moon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PC</a>), a Gothic / epic fantasy third-person roguelike hack & slash action game that only costs twenty bucks.</p> 468<p style="font-weight: 400;"> 469<div class="read-more-button-wrap"><a href="https://paulsemel.com/crimson-moon-review/#more-46807" class="more-link"><span class="faux-button">Continue reading</span> <span class="screen-reader-text">““Crimson Moon” Review”</span></a></div></p> 470 471 </div><!-- .entry-content --> 472 473 </div><!-- .post-inner --> 474 475 <div class="section-inner"> 476 477 <div class="post-meta-wrapper post-meta-single post-meta-single-bottom"> 478 479 <ul class="post-meta"> 480 481 <li class="post-tags 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568, <a href="https://amzn.to/3SxGT4S" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nintendo Switch 2</a>, <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/2638890/Onimusha_Way_of_the_Sword/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PC</a>), the first new <em>Onimusha</em> in twenty years, is as much of an evolution as the recent <a href="https://amzn.to/46FrJ0y" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Resident Evil Requiem</em></a> is over that series’ original game.</p> 569<p style="font-weight: 400;">Though what’s more important is that <em>Onimusha: Way Of The Sword</em> is as much fun as the first <em>Onimusha</em> was back in the day, and almost as good as <a href="https://paulsemel.com/resident-evil-requiem-review/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Resident Evil Requiem</em></a>.</p> 570<p style="font-weight: 400;"> 571<div class="read-more-button-wrap"><a href="https://paulsemel.com/onimusha-way-of-the-sword-review/#more-46749" class="more-link"><span class="faux-button">Continue reading</span> <span 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670 (<a href="https://store.playstation.com/en-us/concept/10014695" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PlayStation 5</a>, <a href="https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/aliens-fireteam-elite-2/9MTP6NRFJBGR?wfExp=382A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Xbox Series X|S</a>, and <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/3448650/Aliens_Fireteam_Elite_2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PC</a>) was made for co-op, but has options that allow it to be played solo as well. But as we all know, just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.</p> 671<p>What follows is my assessment of this game as a single-player experience.</p> 672<div class="read-more-button-wrap"><a href="https://paulsemel.com/aliens-fireteam-elite-2-single-player-review/#more-46605" class="more-link"><span class="faux-button">Continue reading</span> <span class="screen-reader-text">““Aliens: Fireteam Elite 2” Single-Player Review”</span></a></div> 673 674 </div><!-- .entry-content --> 675 676 </div><!-- .post-inner --> 677 678 <div class="section-inner"> 679 680 <div class="post-meta-wrapper post-meta-single post-meta-single-bottom"> 681 682 <ul class="post-meta"> 683 684 <li class="post-tags meta-wrapper"> 685 <span class="meta-icon"> 686 <span class="screen-reader-text"> 687 Tags </span> 688 <svg class="svg-icon" aria-hidden="true" role="img" focusable="false" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="18" height="18" viewbox="0 0 18 18"><path fill="" 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974nce fiction first-person shooter <a href="https://amzn.to/4aQsNBs" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>DOOM: The Dark Ages</em></a> so good it was your Shield Saw, which you not only used to defend yourself, but also like a deadly frisbee. 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Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.