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Which Monster Hunter game is the best one ever made? Hunters have been arguing about that question for more than 20 years. Is it Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, the PSP-era legend? Monster Hunter: World, the game that finally turned the series into a global phenomenon? Or the newest entry, Monster Hunter Wilds? The SpotGeeks editorial…
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When you hear the phrase “wacky game,” what comes to mind? Off-the-wall premises, gameplay that ignores reality entirely, the kind of game that makes you yell “who on earth came up with this?” the second you put the controller down. That’s the magic of a truly goofy game. Drawing on more than 20 years of…
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“Okay, so which Zelda am I actually supposed to play?” It’s been 40 years since the original launched in 1986. Breath of the Wild turned the series into a global phenomenon, and 2023’s Tears of the Kingdom took it right back to the summit. But the lineup is also stacked with timeless classics like Ocarina…
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Which Metal Gear game should you start with? The question is trickier than it sounds. The series kicked off with Metal Gear on the MSX2 back in 1987 and has kept rolling out releases for more than three decades, spanning stealth landmarks, philosophical sci-fi epics, and a razor-sharp action spin-off. Cumulative sales top 63.3 million…
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“I keep hearing The Five Star Stories is amazing — but where on earth do I start?” If you’ve ever asked yourself that, congratulations: you’re asking exactly the right question. Let me be honest with you. FSS is one of the most notoriously difficult works in the entire history of Japanese manga. Mamoru Nagano’s grand…
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“I want to watch Gundam, but I have no idea where to start” — if that’s you, this article was written with you in mind. Universal Century Gundam is a massive saga that stretches from the 1979 original all the way to today, a tangle of TV series, OVAs, and theatrical films that makes the…
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The Nintendo GameCube (GC) launched in Japan on September 14, 2001. Nintendo’s 128-bit machine churned out masterpiece after masterpiece that defined the era when 3D gaming came of age: Super Mario Sunshine, The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Metroid Prime. The honeymoon with Resident Evil, Super Smash Bros. Melee’s legacy as a proto-esport, the…
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“I want to read some great manga, but I have no idea where to start.” Plenty of readers are stuck right there, and honestly, who can blame them? New weekly and monthly series drop nonstop these days, so picking out only the stuff that’s actually worth your time is a real challenge. The SpotGeeks editorial…
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Ever stared at FromSoftware’s catalog and thought, “Okay, but where do I actually start?” It’s not just Dark Souls and Elden Ring, either — dig back through the studio’s history and you’ll turn up Armored Core VI, Metal Wolf Chaos, Tenchu, Otogi. There’s a lot more buried in there than the “games that kill you”…
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“Super Robot Wars — where the heck do I even start?” If that’s the question rattling around your head, I get it. More than a quarter century has passed since Super Robot Wars Alpha landed in 2000, and the series has since blown past 20 titles. There are so many great ones that plenty of…
