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

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Trying to Make Sense of Assassin’s Creed: Unity‘s Main Character

Over the years I guess I’ve inadvertently gotten invested in Assassin’s Creed, just from having to play them all as they come out. ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorDecember 2, 2014

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The Latest Scourge of AAA Game Design

The Slow Time Event, then. A Quick Time Event, you’ll recall, is a button prompt in the middle of a cutscene demanding you ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorNovember 25, 2014

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Sunset Overdrive and Applying The Rules of Comedy

So Sunset Overdrive didn’t make me laugh. Maybe it made other people laugh, it wouldn’t be the first time I was left behind ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorNovember 18, 2014

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How Bayonetta’s Gender is Relevant to the Game

A while back I was talking about the ever-choppy subject of gender diversity in video games, and I mentioned that allowing gender choice ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorNovember 11, 2014

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Why The Evil Within Fails on Multiple Levels

Here’s a nice quote for Bethesda to use out of context: “The Evil Within is the quintessential horror experience”. I do not, however, ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorNovember 4, 2014

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Why Were Shadow of Mordor and Alien Isolation So Good?

First Shadow of Mordor and then Alien Isolation. Where are we at when movie tie-ins start turning out to be good games? We’re ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorOctober 28, 2014

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The Compelling Story Within a Story in Shadow of Mordor

I’m into the concept of storytelling in a big way. I consider my specialty interest to be video game storytelling, and this, I ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorOctober 21, 2014

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Just What Exactly Does the Triforce in Zelda Do?

I always find it to be a bit of a futile exercise to critique Nintendo’s major tentpole franchises, because I’m not sure who ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorOctober 14, 2014

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What Defines the Games of Suda 51 and Swery65

I’ve always wondered what the official definition of ‘cult appeal’ is. Because it’s turning into a less and less useful way to determine ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorOctober 7, 2014

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Destiny Ushers in a New Era of Blatant Cash Grabs

In the run-up to Destiny‘s much-hyped release, I remember at one point dismissively saying that it looked like just another brown corridor shooter ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorSeptember 30, 2014

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How to Make The Sims Double As A Corporate Workplace Simulator

There’s one thing I’ll say The Sims 4 has over The Sims 3, and that’s that it at least doesn’t pester you to ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorSeptember 23, 2014

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Should Every Game Allow You to Choose Your Gender?

Lichdom: Battlemage (ugh, still so awkward even in writing I can feel that colon hanging over it like rotten mistletoe) is a game. ...

By Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw Legacy AuthorSeptember 16, 2014

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