Overthinking Games: an armful of surprises in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

When I played Sekiro, I thought out loud, “Man, do I have a lot of questions about surgery in feudal Japan.”

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Overthinking Games: Devil May Cry 5 and its tangle of heavy metal influences

When we’re looking for an artistic genre, a mood, a milieu that has influenced Devil May Cry 5, where do we look? To heavy metal, of course.

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Overthinking Games: the achievable goals of Wobble Yoga

Depression reduces me and my body to a set of individual commands and careful button presses the same way body physics game Wobble Yoga does.

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Overthinking games: designing natural beauty in Eastshade

Eastshade is a first person exploration game where you play a travelling painter on a gorgeous island. But how does everything look this nice? We asked the

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Overthinking Games: the freedom of communicating in Wandersong

The most important thing Wandersong shows, by letting you express yourself whenever you like, that music can connect us.

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Overthinking Games: The Banner Saga’s banner represents unity rather than division

Rather than a battle standard, the banner in The Banner Saga brings people together.

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Overthinking Games: How Moonlighter’s inventory combats your greed

Moonlighter shows it’s the relationship with items that games actually have to tackle, not the inventory.

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Overthinking Games: Final Fantasy XV’s love of food

Food is an extremely important part of FFXV's boy band road trip, in the same way that it's important in our real lives.

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