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Why not make a collection to talk, briefly, about the video games I appreciate?
Perhaps, managing to shine the spotlight on some half-unknown gaming experience which however should deserve much more. And it cannot be excluded that in the future, finding inspiration, I could take and write long and in-depth articles on some of the games that I always praise briefly here, to start with.

For each game, in addition to a short review peppered with some opinions, I will also try to include multimedia material (photos, videos, and music). Finally, when possible, there will be (via an intermission/redirection page) links for physical purchase and download.

It may be that I don’t have the time, or maybe I don’t want to, or maybe it’s Antani’s fault, but in any case there would be several other works that I haven’t yet mentioned here. Perhaps you can easily find many of them on OcttKB anyway, under the tag Gaming.

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⛏️ Minecraft

Caution The content of this page has been entirely machine-translated into English, from Italiano. Therefore, it might contain any kind of errors. I believe Minecraft can be defined as the modern game (for better or worse) that develops potentially infinite complexity from simple premises. In a good way, obviously: complexity impresses and rewards those who seek it, but the title remains playable for anyone. At first it’s making “houses” that are 4x4 holes under the ground, but later it becomes creating titanic installations, purely aesthetic or even totally functional - let’s not forget that Minecraft, with its redstone, is Turing-complete.

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🏃‍♀️ Mirror's Edge

Caution The content of this page has been entirely machine-translated into English, from Italiano. Therefore, it might contain any kind of errors. https://youtu.be/2N1TJP1cxmo The best way to describe Mirror’s Edge is to say that it’s a game in constant motion. Literally standing on the edge of the mirror, the edges of the enormous glass of which the buildings of La Città are made, one runs and jumps without any brakes.

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💣 Minesweeper

Caution The content of this page has been entirely machine-translated into English, from Italiano. Therefore, it might contain any kind of errors. In Minesweeper (in Italian officially “Minefield”) you have a game grid in which bombs have been randomly placed (by an algorithm). To win, you need to locate them all without exploding any of them. The rules are simple, but the game easily reaches high levels of complexity and has an I-don’t-know-what that you can’t do without.

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🔢️ 2048

Caution The content of this page has been entirely machine-translated into English, from Italiano. Therefore, it might contain any kind of errors. 2048 is a simple puzzle game in which you have a grid of randomly generated numbered tiles that you can slide entirely in one of four directions. All numbers are powers of 2, and equal numbers that collide add to become their double. If you reach 2048 by adding up the tiles, you win a game, which however can go on even further.

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#️⃣️ Nonogram

Caution The content of this page has been entirely machine-translated into English, from Italiano. Therefore, it might contain any kind of errors. Nonogram (also known as Picross, Crucipixel, and about twenty other names) are puzzles that consist of filling a grid of squares in order to reveal an image, using the numbers at the sides of the sheet to find intersections between rows and columns. WIP… If you want to discover other things or learn how to play, read on Wikipedia.

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✈️ Pilotwings

Caution The content of this page has been entirely machine-translated into English, from Italiano. Therefore, it might contain any kind of errors. Pilotwings Resort Pilotwings Resort continues the Pilotwings arcade flight simulation series in a different way. It ends up on a portable console, the 3DS, among other things a console that manages to grab you directly, with its stereoscopic 3D display. The game is set on Wuhu Island, the same place full of history, locations, and mysteries as Wii Sports Resort.

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🍃 Animal Crossing

Caution The content of this page has been entirely machine-translated into English, from Italiano. Therefore, it might contain any kind of errors. The premises were creative, but boring: you are a human being who, for some reason, goes on a journey to settle in a village where humanoid animals live with whom you can interact. In the meantime, you have to get into debt with a raccoon who sells you the new house at a very high price, and do what you can to repay, with times that can become infinite.

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🎩 A Hat in Time

Caution The content of this page has been entirely machine-translated into English, from Italiano. Therefore, it might contain any kind of errors. Lively and frenetic 3D platformer, undoubtedly coming from the Super Mario 64 school. The difficulty of the main story is right, and the game flows pleasantly with an alternation of themes and environments that always feels fresh. But, in short, the charisma of the protagonist character alone makes you want to play.

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🐙 Splatoon

Caution The content of this page has been entirely machine-translated into English, from Italiano. Therefore, it might contain any kind of errors. Third person shooter which to say is different from the others is an understatement. Splatoon breaks the genre’s expectations of war realism, and features cute, dazzlingly colorful gameplay that never lets up. There are no humans shooting bullets with iron, but squids spilling ink. Playing in Mollusc Melee (this is the name of the 4-on-4 online battles) is fun, but the depth of the game and the inventiveness of the development team can be seen in story mode.

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🏎️ SuperTuxKart

Caution The content of this page has been entirely machine-translated into English, from Italiano. Therefore, it might contain any kind of errors. A kart racing game with cute and original environments, and many mascots from the world of free software as characters. It has different game modes, from classic racing to missions with specific objectives, solo or multiplayer. In some ways it has more than Mario Kart! • Official Site: https://supertuxkart.

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🧗‍♀️ Celeste

Caution The content of this page has been entirely machine-translated into English, from Italiano. Therefore, it might contain any kind of errors. Celeste is a nice little platformer game, with original mechanics and a unique graphic style. But it’s too difficult. I tried to play it many times, but at a certain point in the story the difficulty became too high for me. I should maybe try finishing it in guided mode, since the option is there.

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🧱Tetris

Caution The content of this page has been entirely machine-translated into English, from Italiano. Therefore, it might contain any kind of errors. The game created specifically to make people fit together squares of particular shapes that fall from the sky. Puzzle game very particular in its simplicity where, as the game difficulty increases, the lack of quick reflexes can cause the game to end prematurely. Tetris Effect Tetris effect adds ambient atmospheres to Tetris with many different themes.