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  • Dialogue Tree – Should Fantasy be More Fantastical?

    Dean Bowman (25/03/14 17.58) I used to read a lot of fantasy when I was younger, until, in my pretentious adolescence, I abandoned the genre for real ‘literature’. Looking back on it, I suppose my main problem was that it all started to get so samey, and high-brow Magical Realism (Gabriel García Márquez, Haruki Murakami)…

  • Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen

    As unlikely as it was for Japan to produce two sleeper hit RPGs within a year of one another, there was much to compare Dragon’s Dogma to Dark Souls. They are both uncharacteristically influenced by Western dark fantasy and action oriented RPGs, both eschewed the genre in interesting ways, both featured unusual asynchronous online elements,…