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Rain World explodes with more slugcat .gifs

Rain World is part of an explosion over the past few years of games that express, through their pixel art, a very personal sort of fantasy. Along with Hyper Light Drifter, Witchmarsh, The Deer God, and Titan Souls, it sees pixel art not as cute but as ready for subversion, and an excuse to lavishly animate the living shit out of all on-screen characters. All of which does not mean that Rain World isn’t still also very cute, because: it is. I mean, these slugcats are pretty much made to be turned into plush dolls, which is good, because they…

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Witchmarsh lets you hack-n-slash while pretending to learn about US history

Massachusetts in the Roaring ‘20s wasn’t just a place for drinking fermented cider beside the bonfire in waistcoats and coattails, apparently. It was also the perfect setting for the pixel-arty, grind-heavy, loot-filled, side-scrolling RPGs Witchmarsh. At least that’s what history according to videogames crowdfunded on Kickstarter taught me, which is, for the record, the most fun but least accurate way to learn history. Witchmarsh looks to be a solidly put-together little production, with thematic touches of swing dancing and Victorian New England. But perhaps it’s the action that looks most intriguing, seeming to blend the collect-athoning from Iga’s Castlevanias with,…

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