Drew

One of my favourite parts of the job! I remember Deeble took about two weeks to edit the last one, and it was worth it.

Vertical spread!

🤔 For the speculator

🧬 For I-don’t-know-who-but-I-had-to-learn-a-lot-of-heady-stuff-for-this-so-appreciate-it

🎮 For those who appreciate the greatest decade of games

👾 For the nostalgic pixel lover

🎸 For 2005 Drew

Had a good run of making magazines this year. ✍️

👊 For the Paramore fan

Not at all. Had to backtrack through Coffee World once or twice but that was my own idiocy. On the whole, I just drank in that Remedy/David Lynch atmosphere all the way through! How about yourself?

Good stuff I finished/watched this year.

Number seven: Alan Wake II (2023), 🎮, Remedy Entertainment

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Remedy is a studio that should be protected, nurtured and allowed to prosper. I can’t fault Alan Wake II. It demonstrates the uniqueness of a story told as a video game. Kojima could never.

Good stuff I finished/watched this year.

Number Six: The Black Phone (2021), 🎬, Scott Derrickson, Mason Thomas, Madeline McGraw, Ethan Hawke

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A great, uncomplicated ride. McGraw is the perfect deuteragonist and is the emotional core of the story. Good mask game. Put it on for non-scare spooks.

Good stuff I finished/watched this year.

Number five: Shōgun (2024), 📺, Rachel Kondo, Justin Marks, James Clavell.

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I have not encountered a character as perfectly written, acted, styled, costumed and executed as Lady Mariko. Fucking hell.

Good stuff I finished/watched this year.

Number four: The Zone of Interest (2023), 🎬, Jonathan Glazer, Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller.

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Damn. Asks a lot from its audience but rewards you by sticking around in the mind for the foreseeable. Just what you want from a Holocaust film, eh?

Good stuff I finished/watched this year.

Number three: Final Fantasy VII Rebirth (2024), 🎮, Square Enix Creative Business Unit I.

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Grazes the line of, ‘Can you have too much of a good thing?’ Does not get enough credit for how funny it can be. I have a face of stone and I laughed. Aloud.

Good stuff I finished/watched this year.

Number two: The Kid Detective (2020), 🎬, Evan Morgan, Adam Brody, Sophie Nélisse.

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Fully commits to its ‘boy wonder detective all grown up’ bit. Compelling mystery, great twists and sobering emotion as you reach the end of the tangled thread.

Good stuff I finished this year.

Number one: Control (2019), 🎮, PS5, Remedy Entertainment.

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Wonderful weirdness and corporate bureaucracy. The levitation and telekinesis abilities sell the power fantasy. Linger in the photo mode.