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Final Fantasy VII Revelation: The Trilogy Finally Lands in Spring 2027
In 1997, Final Fantasy VII was one game on three discs. The remake project that began in 2020 will have taken three games, seven years and three console ecosystems to tell the same story. In Spring 2027, on the thirtieth anniversary of the original, it finally ends. The last one is called Revelation, and for…
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Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Is a Pirate Game First, and That Is Why It Won
Every few years, Ubisoft releases a new Assassin’s Creed and the internet immediately asks the same question: is it as good as Black Flag? Thirteen years of sequels, reboots and RPG detours later, the pirate game is still the measuring stick. That is not nostalgia. That is a scoreboard. By Ruan Martini, Daily Checkpoint Picture…
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Assassin’s Creed Shadows, a Year and a Half Later: Japan Was Worth the Wait
For ten years the most requested setting in the series was feudal Japan. When it finally arrived, it came with two heroes, two delays and a publisher having the worst year of its life. This is about the game itself, and the game is better than the noise around it. By Ruan Martini, Daily Checkpoint…
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Assassin’s Creed Odyssey: Greece Is Too Big, and I Loved It Anyway
Origins took a year off and came back wise. Odyssey looked at that wisdom, nodded politely, and then built a game roughly the size of a European country. This is the story of the Assassin’s Creed that tried to give you everything, all of Greece, all at once, forever. By Ruan Martini, Daily Checkpoint Let…
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Assassin’s Creed II: Ezio Arrived in 2009 and Nobody in This Series Has Topped Him Since
My Facebook bio has quoted the Assassin motto for years: nothing is true, everything is permitted. I did not pick that line from a poster. I picked it up in Florence, in 2009, standing on a rooftop next to a charming idiot named Ezio Auditore who was about to become the best protagonist this series…
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Metro 2039: The Tunnels Are Calling Again, and Hunter Is Running Them Now
Eight years ago, Metro Exodus took us out of the tunnels and into the sunlight, and it felt like goodbye. It was not goodbye. On February 4, 2027, we go back down into the dark, and the man waiting for us at the bottom is the reason this whole series exists. By Ruan Martini, Daily…
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Assassin’s Creed Mirage: The Little Creed That Could
After a decade of games that wanted your whole winter, Mirage asked for one weekend, and gave you Baghdad. I have thought about that trade a lot, and I keep landing on grateful. By Ruan Martini, Daily Checkpoint Basim, the white hood, and a city small enough to know by heart. Image: Ubisoft. Some games…
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The Witcher 4 Might Not Be a 2027 Game at All
Open any “biggest games of 2027” list on the internet and The Witcher 4 sits near the top, usually with a confident little “Q4 2027” next to it. There is one small problem with that. CD Projekt Red has never said 2027. Not once. The date everyone is quoting belongs to a Polish stock brokerage.…
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Resident Evil 4: The Game That Moved the Camera and Changed Everything
In January 2005, Capcom took its slowest, stiffest horror series, parked the camera on Leon Kennedy’s shoulder, and accidentally rewrote the rules for every third person game that came after. Twenty years and two masterpieces later, Resident Evil 4 is the rare classic that got remade and somehow ended up with two versions people argue…
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Assassin’s Creed III: The Revolution Made Me Wait Six Hours to Join It
Every family has one member they argue about at dinner. In this series, it is the enormous one from 2012 that sold more than almost all the others, broke company records, debuted the best naval combat of its generation, and still cannot get through a fan ranking without starting a fight. I love this game.…