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Written for Escapist Magazine, recreated with permission. Although gaming is alive and well, the stereotype of a basement-dwelling Mountain Dew goblin-teenager who screams at his mother for "interrupting" his boob-modded Call of Duty match to give him his pizza rolls is image others have of gamers. It'
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Overflowing, dense, humanistic, isolating, personable, alien, difficult to navigate, and is the closest thing to a siren that I'll ever encounter in my life.
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Mighty No. 9 does succeed at doing things, but makes them hardly worth doing.
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The first turn is always the easiest.
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The Wyoming wilderness is rich and enveloping. All around, everything feels... Something.
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It is a very good version of a familiar game.
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I want you to imagine and describe a brand new color.
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A heavily polished experience, but one that feels just short of perfection.
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In space, no one can hear you steam.
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Adrift in a sea of purple, it changes you.
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Dust travels with the wind, and death waits at the end of the road.
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Precise, excellent, and unrelentingly difficult.