Games, games, and Vincent

Every Mega Man game's lore explained in obsessive detail

2022-11-28 — Vincent Leeuw

What it says on the tin. It's not foolproof, but then again, there is so much stupid stuff going on in this franchise, that it doesn't really matter.

Factorio as a tool for interviewing

2022-11-28 — Vincent Leeuw

In a strange twist of reverse gamification (applying games to real-world problems), here's obsessive optimisation game Factorio being used as a replacement for …

Springblades

Springblades

2022-11-28 — Vincent Leeuw

Dutch indie game collective Sokpop has a new game out: Springblades. Which is best described as an absurdist Paper Mario-like. It's also rather good; if you …

Weekplay 202245

Weekplay 202245

2022-11-15 — Vincent Leeuw

At Local Heroes we worked on the localisation of Tactics Ogre: Reborn (PS5) quite some time ago, to the point that we thought the game had been cancelled. But …

Weekplay 202244

Weekplay 202244

2022-11-08 — Vincent Leeuw

More than 10 years ago, a colleague of mine notified me of a metroidvania being in development. It was a solo project and people were getting pretty excited …

Weekplay 202243

Weekplay 202243

2022-11-01 — Vincent Leeuw

It suffered a break of a few months, but I completed my playthrough of Citizen Sleeper (SD) over the weekend. This is still one amazing game and looking back …

Weekplay 202240

Weekplay 202240

2022-10-11 — Vincent Leeuw

To celebrate the multiplatform release of No More Heroes III, I booted up the original No More Heroes (NSW) remaster. This one hits differently these days. …