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Kaze and the Wild Masks

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Kaze and the Wild Masks is a pure stage-based 2D platformer, a genre I admittedly have little recent experience with. I've played Rayman Legends and Origins, and the Crash Bandicoot remasters, and of course some Mario games, but that's about it.
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Artifact Adventure Gaiden DX

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Artifact Adventure Gaiden DX has the honor of being the first game played for my Game Library Project, where I attempt to play every game in my library and share my thoughts.  Artifact Adventure Gaiden DX is an open world RPG stylized like a Gameboy Color game.
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The Hands of the Emperor Review

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This is a book that shouldn't, by all the rules that govern what makes a book "work", be anywhere near as good as it is. Victoria Goddard has crafted a novel here that goes against every established convention of the genre: there's no war, vanishingly little violence, there's really very little...
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The Game Library Project

| Reading time: 4 minutes

I have, to put it simply, too many games. Thousands across multiple platforms. It sounds insane - and it is - but it's not so crazy when you look at it with a little perspective. I've been gaming for more than 20 years. I've had a Steam account for close to 15 of those. I keep up with deals, I...
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More Thoughts on Hands of the Emperor

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I'm about halfway done this book and still loving it. The characters on display here are some of the most deeply human I've ever read. The Emperor's deepening friendship with Cliopher and the rest of the crew is charming and realistic. None of us are Emperors of entire worlds
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Hands of the Emperor Thoughts

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My next read was supposed to be The Song of Achilles, the last book on my list for the 2022 r/fantasy Book Bingo challenge. I started it, read a few pages. I seems great. Then I saw a snippet of Victoria Goddard's The Hands of the Emperor. That took me to its Amazon page, where I spent the next 2...
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About

My name's Mike, and this is the Lore Depository - my spot online where I can write out my thoughts on games, books, tech, movies, and anything else I find interesting. 

My biggest project is my Game Library Project. I have a ton of games collected throughout the years, and have barely played any of them. Check out the linked post to learn more about the project, and click here to be taken to the category page where you can see all my posts for the project.

Other content comes mainly in 3 forms:
• Reviews, where I post longer-form writeups
• Thoughts, short & quick first impressions posts
• Guides, detailed how-tos and walkthroughs

Click the links to go to each category's page, filtered by newest post.

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