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“How many will play?” – New Super Mario Bros. Wii

This January, I ended up going to three different child-oriented stage shows involving puppets in the space of four weeks. Fortuitously, we saw them in ascending order of…

Shame on Mii – Wii Fit Plus

For this guest post I am happy to welcome my friend Daisy Letourneur, who you can find on twitter at @DaisyLetourneur. Searching for Wii Fit Plus reviews, Google…

“Wily old manager” – Football Manager 2010

Like other people’s dreams or AI outputs, hearing other people’s Football Manager stories can be a bit of an awkward bore. Not always, though. Brian Phillips’s creative series…

“The signs were serious” – Forza Motorsport 3

Forza Motorsport 2 was such an accomplished version of the serious road car racing genre popularised by Gran Turismo that there wasn’t anywhere too obvious to take it…

“Tomorrow, next year” – Pro Evolution Soccer 2010

As I first started playing Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, something unprecedented happened. I won my first match. Not just that but I won it comfortably, 3-0. As I…

“Just needed to punch your ticket” – Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

There is a cutscene near the start of Uncharted 2, a flashback revealing the inciting incident for its plot, which took me by surprise. It involves lead character…

“Here comes the dance of triumph” – FIFA 10

FIFA 10 has an achievement called “Real Fan” which is earned by playing the game for fifty hours. Since I played it on Xbox 360 both when it…

“You know the music. Time to dance.” – Halo 3: ODST

[For this guest post, I am happy to welcome David Caldwell to Super Chart Island for the first time! David is a nonbinary writer and artist living in…

“Profile points” – Need for Speed: Shift

With structural innovations missing or misfiring, there’s one thing left for Need for Speed: Shift to fall back on, and it’s there in the title.

“Uprooting trees, destroying cars” – Colin McRae: Dirt 2

I absolutely loved Codemasters’ early driving game breakthrough Colin McRae Rally and its first sequel. By the time Dirt 2 came out a decade or so later, I…