Author: Westen
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 Game Boy/Game Boy Color Games
After posting my top 10 SNES games earlier this week, it is now time to move on to the next system I owned, the Game Boy! My first portable system was actually the Game Boy Color, but I played plenty of Game Boy games on it, so it made sense for these to be combined.…
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Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door (2024) Review: Ahead of Its Time, Yet Still in the Past
Whenever I see complaints about video game remakes, I like to remind people that video games are still a relatively new artform. It might be ridiculous for Hollywood to come out with a remake on a movie that came out in 2004. But for video games? Video games were something like a teenager at that…
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My Way Too Early Game Awards Nomination Predictions
With the way the actual awards element of the Game Awards was brushed to the side last year, a lot of gaming purists have taken to looking down on the show for its awards elements. And I totally understand that, but I still get pumped for this show. Not just because of the reveals, but…
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BigNerdGaming’s Top 10 SNES Games
For those who have been following the blog for a while, you may know that my plan has been to put together a top 10 list for each year up to around 1995 before doing my top 50 games of all time. I find it easier to compartmentalize these things before tackling a big list.…
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The Case of the Golden Idol Review: I’m a Detective, Damn It (Xbox Version)
Video games allow us to truly feel like someone else for a while in a way no other medium can. I truly felt like a master swordsman when playing Rise of the Ronin earlier this year. I could have sworn I was actually on vacation when I was playing Dungeons of Hinterberg a week ago.…
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The Biggest Things I Learned Through Video Games at Age 35
Today is my birthday. When you are a gaming blogger trying to do two posts a week, any opportunity for easy content needs to be capitalized on. I am going to use my birthday privilege to write an easy blog post talking about what I learned this year through the lens of video games. I’m…
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Dungeons of Hinterberg Review: When Ambition Meets Execution
I was overcome by an interesting feeling each time I booted up Dungeons of Hinterberg for this past week. At times, I felt like I was playing something incredibly familiar. Each time I dove into one of the games’ titular dungeons, I almost could have sworn I was playing a Zelda game. Each time I…
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My Super Mega Huge Awesome Gaming Roundup: Ft. Dungeons of Hinterberg, Nier: Automata, Paper Mario: TTYD and More!
For the past few months, I’ve been fortunate to have had a whole lot to write about. It has been so consistent that I haven’t felt the need to write blog posts on any games that I’ve been in progress on. But it’s time for that to change. Over the past few months, I have…
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Rolling Hills Review: Delicious and Occasionally Overfilling
I have a weird relationship with cozy games. I like them in theory, as they often have stealth RPG elements at the very least. Multiple games that are amongst my top 50 all time are cozy games (Harvest Moon 64, Stardew Valley, and Littlewood). But a lot of the slow starts and general sameness that…
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My Top 10 Most Anticipated Video Games For THIS FREAKING WEEK
I’ve been talking about the week of July 14th for a while now. If you read my “Most Anticipated Games For the Rest of the Year” list a few weeks ago, I mentioned it briefly along with my number four game, which was Dungeons of Hinterberg. But the more I’ve dived in, the more I’ve…
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