Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy Author, Author at The Escapist

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The Common Mistakes of Horror Games

You’d think there’d be more horror game titles. Horror in videogames is easy. In a film or a book you have to spend ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorJune 8, 2010

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Monster Hunter Tri

Now, generally I’m not the sort of person who likes to cheaply strawman their enemies by repeating their sentences back to them in ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorJune 1, 2010

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Male Protagonists

Dead To Rights: Retribution, like so many shooters, is a game about manliness. It’s about situations wherein big strong men with muscles like ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 25, 2010

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Character Names

As I mentioned in the review, Nier is one of those games that lets you enter the name of the main character at ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 18, 2010

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Stealth

So yes, I quite like stealth. Although, judging by my reaction to Splinter Cell, apparently not all stealth. It’s like what I say ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 11, 2010

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Silent Hill: Shattered Memories

As regular readers/viewers should know by now (and by Christ should they know by now), I have an interest in horror. I’ve designed ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMay 4, 2010

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Videogames as Art

“I remain convinced that in principle, video games cannot be art. Perhaps it is foolish of me to say ‘never,’ because never, as ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 27, 2010

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Revenge

“You say that the difficulty when you unlock ‘The Tiger’ is a big flaw. But maybe that was part of the point. I ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 20, 2010

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Kratos

I love Kratos. He’s probably one of my favorite characters in modern gaming. Not because he’s in any way relatable or because I ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 13, 2010

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Yahtzee vs. the JRPG

This might sound like me hyperbolically overstating things for comic effect again, but if you claim to have enjoyed playing Final Fantasy XIII, ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorApril 6, 2010

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Betrayal

I am so sick of being betrayed. Not that I was ever really keen on being betrayed, but I’m so bored of betrayal ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMarch 30, 2010

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Interactive Storytelling

Ages ago I started work on, not so much a game, more an “interactive storytelling experience” (here I go wanking away) called Fork, ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorMarch 23, 2010

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