Alice Bell

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Alice Bell·Jul 28, 2020

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Maid Of Sker is more frightening when it’s not trying to scare you.

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Alice Bell·Jun 10, 2020

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Eco Lifestyle adds some of the most interesting stuff to The Sims 4 I’ve ever seen.

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Alice Bell·May 22, 2020

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Oh Saints Row. It is not you that have changed, but I.

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Alice Bell·May 20, 2020

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It’s only a couple of hours long, but Old Gods Rising stewed me in my own juices so thoroughly that I woke up, confused, at about 2am, looked at my aforementioned boyfriend as he slept, and thought “he was definitely in on it with Maz… he looks too smug”. That’s got to be a well crafted story, hasn’t it? As long as you don’t mind not having all the answers at the end.

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Alice Bell·May 15, 2020

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I have, to borrow a metaphor, a lot of Fatigue cards in my deck some days.

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Alice Bell·Apr 14, 2020

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The Procession To Calvary is better than Monty Python, because it’s probably more consistent and, perhaps surprisingly for the content, less surreal. But your mileage, as they say, may vary.

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Alice Bell·Mar 31, 2020

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It is really very good, though. It’s very meditative. Calming. It’s possibly exactly what you need right now.

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Alice Bell·Mar 10, 2020

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While both aspects of Murder By Numbers are pretty good, neither of them are given enough space to really breathe.

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Alice Bell·Feb 21, 2020

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The most glaring problem is how The Suicide Of Rachel Foster fails to meaningfully engage with its central themes.

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Alice Bell·Feb 10, 2020

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The Pedestrian is surprising and astonishing and delighting, it’s true. But for about the first hour and the last.

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Alice Bell·Feb 5, 2020

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Reforged, like a lot of remasters today, is good for a run around if all you wanted was to give your nostalgia a long leash

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Alice Bell·Jan 9, 2020

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I think Sayonara Wild Hearts reminded me of all the cool things I’ve liked over the years, because it’s not saying anything deeper than “Cool things are ****** great, and being cool is great too.” Which is fine. It’s all said in this incredibly alluring wash of pink and blue and purple, this brief flowerbloom of a game, this stylish, inescapably cool thing that references Tarot without, you know, trying too hard about it.

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Alice Bell·Dec 17, 2019

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Detroit is a perfect game to livestream, or play with three mates and half a bottle of tequila – but if you tell me you genuinely think the story is well done, I will immediately be sus that you, yourself, are an android poorly trying to replicate human behaviour.

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Alice Bell·Nov 5, 2019

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But most of all, Manifold Garden makes me break out in a cold sweat. I cannot help but imagine myself, trapped in an endless kaleidoscope.

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Alice Bell·Oct 30, 2019

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Afterparty as a whole is surprisingly funny. I did actual out loud laughs sometimes, not just strong exhalations through my nose.