Gita Jackson

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Gita Jackson·Aug 18, 2023

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I look forward to playing, and replaying and replaying, Baldur’s Gate 3 for possibly years to come. It’s clearly a role-playing game classic and has already been an overwhelming success for Larian Studios. It’s just unfortunate that I end up comparing the relatively limited power of a video game to the power of my own imagination — and it also feels like a problem the game can’t solve. Baldur’s Gate 3 is a masterpiece of a D&D game in every sense of the word, for good and, sometimes, for ill.

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Gita Jackson·Jun 21, 2023

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Excellent action wrapped in an awful story

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Gita Jackson·May 29, 2023

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It’s easy to understand why people played this game and then became obsessed with it, why you can trace some people’s careers through the game.

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Gita Jackson·Feb 17, 2023

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Rowling’s specter looms above a vapid open world

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Gita Jackson·Dec 4, 2019

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If there’s anything that Life Is Strange 2 wants to say, it’s that everyone in the world deserves dignity, happiness and love.

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Gita Jackson·Oct 22, 2019

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The Outer Worlds is so impactful that it made me question and ultimately settle more thoughtfully into my beliefs.

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Gita Jackson·Sep 24, 2019

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By the end of the game, I didn’t feel as though Colonel Sanders was my love interest. If anything, the food was. For the main character’s final exam, I teamed up with Colonel Sanders to make a KFC Famous Bowl, the truly nausea inducing combination of chicken tenders, mashed potatoes and mac and cheese. Despite the game acknowledging that this combination of foods is a nightmare, Professor Sprinkles gave it full marks, calling it delicious. At that point, the jig was up for me. It’s hard to fall in love when you are ultimately being asked to buy fried chicken.

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Gita Jackson·Sep 17, 2019

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Eliza makes an effort to say that working on yourself counts as working on the world in the grand scheme of things. In real life, I am inclined to agree. In this game, where Evelyn’s choices can lead to an ending where she uses her massive intellect to fundamentally change how society works, I am not so sure that focusing on her grief is the most useful thing to do.

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Gita Jackson·Jul 25, 2019

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Fire Emblem: Three Houses is a game for interesting times. At the start, none of the future rulers of Fódlan, the fantasy continent where Three Houses

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Gita Jackson·Oct 12, 2018

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If you have never played The World Ends With You before, the Nintendo Switch version released on Thursday night is not a bad way to get into it. Final

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Gita Jackson·Dec 7, 2017

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In my time as queen in Reigns: Her Majesty, I was torn apart by my subjects, eaten by wolves, and burned at the stake. I had affairs with pagan women,

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Gita Jackson·Jul 24, 2017

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Pyre is a sports game about starting a revolution. In a worse game, that would be a joke, but Pyre takes both its sports and its politics seriously and

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Gita Jackson·Apr 24, 2017

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What Remains of Edith Finch is a story about family, the nature of life, and the unknowability of mortality. In the end, whatever flaws Edith Finch may