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When a new game is released in your favorite game series how do you decide if it's ""good""? Does it matter more that it's a good game in its own right or does it matter more that it's a good member of the series? The question is pressing because those standards might come apart from each other. Maybe Nightreign falls short as a standalone multiplayer experience but makes a worthy contribution to Miyazaki's oeuvre; maybe Tears of the Kingdom succeeds as a crafting system but would have been better off not being a Zelda game. Join the game analysts of With a Terrible Fate on a journey to develop new tools for evaluating and appreciating the most unusual games in your favorite game series!
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* Aaron Suduiko (he/him/his) Founder, With a Terrible Fate (Instagram: instagram.com/agsuduiko/)
* Dan Hughes (he/him/his) Video Game Analyst, With a Terrible Fate (Youtube: youtube.com/@withaterriblefate)
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When a new game is released in your favorite game series how do you decide if it's ""good""? Does it matter more that it's a good game in its own right or does it matter more that it's a good member of the series? The question is pressing because those standards might come apart from each other. Maybe Nightreign falls short as a standalone multiplayer experience but makes a worthy contribution to Miyazaki's oeuvre; maybe Tears of the Kingdom succeeds as a crafting system but would have been better off not being a Zelda game. Join the game analysts of With a Terrible Fate on a journey to develop new tools for evaluating and appreciating the most unusual games in your favorite game series!
Panelists:
* Aaron Suduiko (he/him/his) Founder, With a Terrible Fate (Instagram: instagram.com/agsuduiko/)
* Dan Hughes (he/him/his) Video Game Analyst, With a Terrible Fate (Youtube: youtube.com/@withaterriblefate)
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