Cane and Rinse

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2024-12-17

  Marble Madness – Cane and Rinse No.645

“EVERYTHING YOU KNOW IS WRONG” Mark Cerny's first full project as a prodigious teen game creator (after coding a 'mushroom growing algorithm' for Millipede) was Atari's surreal and challenging Marble Madness. Leon, Brian and Chris Worthington run al...
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2024-12-10

  JuJu Densetsu (Toki) - Cane and Rinse No.644

“The evil hand of BASHTAR has seized the lovely MIHO.” Representing the tiny overlap in the Venn diagram of at least two niche subgenres (prehistoric jungle platformers/games with simian protagonists), Juju Densetsu (or Toki) is also a fairly pedest...
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2024-12-03

  Manifold Garden - Cane and Rinse No.643

"..." Installation artist, juggler, balloon artist and first-time game developer William Chyr told himself it would take three months to design a Portal-sized puzzle game. Seven years later, he released a 'counterfactual physics game' that captures ...
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2024-11-26

  Perfect Dark Zero - Cane and Rinse No.642

“If you make like you’re a DeathMatch hotshot you should be able to bluff your way into the party.” After a tumultuous few years of company takeovers and platform swaps, Rare's Perfect Dark Zero landed as an Xbox 360 console exclusive launch title. ...
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2024-11-24

  Dragon Age: Inquisition - Cane and Rinse No.641

“If you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer.” Just ahead of the release of the fourth instalment in BioWare's fantasy RPG series, we finally get around to scrutinising the third game in the series - Dragon Age: I...
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2024-11-13

  Dredge - Cane and Rinse No.640

"Throw me back." What better way to spend time in the ocean than to fish while trying not to succumb to ancient malices from the deep? For this is apparently what is on offer with 2023's indie darling, Dredge. Chris O'Regan with James and Brian - al...
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2024-11-05

  Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - Cane and Rinse No.639

“Good speech. Blast him.” Marvel's relatively obscure comic book sci-fi misfits received a huge boost in recognition with their first MCU movie in 2014. Following a sequel and a Telltale series, Square Enix tasked their Eidos Montreal studio with ma...
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2024-10-29

  Vampire Killer / Castlevania: Bloodlines / The New Generation - Cane and Rinse No.638

“TWO YOUNG VAMPIRE HUNTERS SET OUT TO FULFILL THEIR DESTINY….” New protagonists for a new era. Initially, officially, considered to be a gaiden, Konami's second game entitled Vampire Killer was arguably canonised as Castlevania: Bloodlines in the USA...
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2024-10-22

  Sonic 3 & Knuckles - Cane and Rinse No.637

“Go! Go! Go! Go-go!” It could have been Sonic 3D, but the tech wasn't ready. In fact, the game itself wasn't entirely ready when it was due to release, leading to Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Sonic & Knuckles coming out on separate (full-price) cartr...
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2024-10-15

  Vampire Survivors - Cane and Rinse No.636

"Thank you Poe, but the vampire is in another coffin.” Vampire Survivors started off as a solo developer effort that turned into a huge indie hit. A compulsive experience that employs various slots-style visual and audio cues to give upgrades more '...
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