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Santa Claus Jr.

IT’S CHRISTMAS TIME! Oh god what a bundle of stress: dealing with family, getting presents ready, cooking, travelling; and finally, worst of all, struggling to find a worthwhile Christmas themed video game to comment on for your Youtube channel! Oh dear god the stress.... Well, don’t you worry budding Youtubers, here’s one. A genuinely fun Christmas videogame. Ah, the relief! Santa Claus Jr. was a late release PAL game (2001) for the Gameboy Color developed by German company NEON Software and it is, possibly, what some might term, a hidden gem – which is to say it’s not been beaten into the ground and nor is it entirely mediocre. Santa Claus Jr.’s main draw is it’s charming animation and art. As a young boy pounds away on his Gameboy Color (TM), Santa Claus’ famous robe unceremoniously falls into his bedroom and at once he knows what to do: Travel to that remote menacing castle and Save Santa! Immediately, we find the game’s animations setting the atmosphere. Even in the boy...

The Dark Ritual

The colour when she left, The dark – the money on the counter And through the rest of the night I thought and thought: Should I contact her? Should I speak about the night, about the dark ritual, the money she’d left? No, I thought, I’ll spend it on those three rare pristine nineteen-ninety three Sonic the hedgehog badges.

Hotel Dusk

Hotel Dusk is simultaneously an effective page-turner-mystery and quite a boring video game; it’s part interactive fiction and part point and click adventure. But a point and click adventure in which you’re looking for that pencil you swore you’d seen earlier; or in which you have to peel a label off a wine bottle. Indeed its gameplay is not what you would describe as exciting, intriguing, or anything other than mundane. But such an introduction does a disservice to the game as a whole. Because this is one of those games. Oh yes. Between roaming the damp hotel hallways and aimlessly knocking on doors, something starts to work in Hotel Dusk which the transcends the routine gameplay. Something engrossing. Something human. Hotel Dusk, you may have guessed, takes place in the very much eponymous hotel on a dark Dece...

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