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Welcome to The Game Knot! We cover video game news, review video games, and more.
Important Note: Currently on hiatus due to health problems, there will be no articles until I leave hiatus.
I will make articles again once my hiatus is over.
Retrospective Review: Gargoyle's Quest II: The Demon Darkness (3DS)
If I've learned one thing from "Gargoyle's Quest II," it's that ancestors aren't always as competent as the legends and stories tell.
Matthew McCarthy
Nov 12, 20215 min read
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Review: Awareness Rooms (PC)
It's important for you to be aware of rooms, your surroundings, the demon behind you, and ourselves. Most importantly the demon though.
Matthew McCarthy
Nov 5, 20214 min read
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Spoiler Review: Sonic Adventure DX (PC)
Oh man, Sonic's first 3D- Second- Fourth- FIFTH 3D OUTING!
Matthew McCarthy
Nov 1, 202120 min read
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Review: Corpse Party (2021) (PC)
I need to stop going to every party I'm invited to, the only drink they have here is strawberry punch and it tastes weird.
Matthew McCarthy
Oct 31, 20217 min read
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Review: Yōdanji (PC)
Rest in peace my SEO (Search Engine Optimization), that ō in “Yōdanji” is the real yōkai here.
Matthew McCarthy
Oct 15, 20216 min read
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Retrospective Review: Gargoyle’s Quest (3DS)
Wrongly coloured protagonist on the cover that’s supposed to be red? Oh yeah, it’s Gameboy time.
Matthew McCarthy
Oct 8, 20215 min read
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Spoiler Review: Planetarian ~the reverie of a little planet~ (PC)
Since this is Key/Visual Arts, I’m expecting the cutest thing alive and crippling sadness.
Matthew McCarthy
Oct 1, 20215 min read
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Retrospective Review: Frogger’s Adventures: Temple of the Frog (GBA)
His design is much better in the game, trust me.
Matthew McCarthy
Sep 24, 20213 min read
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Retrospective Review: Gurumin: A Monstrous Adventure (PC)
A monstrous adventure also happens to be one of the cutest adventures.
Matthew McCarthy
Sep 17, 202113 min read
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Review: Cooking Mama 4: Kitchen Magic (3DS)
Magic happens in the kitchen, so that would make Cooking Mama, Sorcerer Mama. At least, I think it does.
Matthew McCarthy
Sep 6, 20215 min read
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Review: Later Alligator (PC)
What an adorably morbid title.
Matthew McCarthy
Sep 3, 20214 min read
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Review: Zwei: The Arges Adventures (PC)
Spoilers: I never did find out what a Zwei is.
Matthew McCarthy
Aug 27, 202110 min read
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Review: The Disney Afternoon Collection (PC)
This collection means six game reviews at once in this review. What was I thinking?
Matthew McCarthy
Aug 13, 202110 min read
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Review: Squidlit (PC)
I don’t fully comprehend what a Squidlit is, but my desire to protect it is strong.
Matthew McCarthy
Aug 6, 20213 min read
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Spoiler Review: Petit Novel Series - Harvest December (3DS)
Welcome to my analysis of every single snowflake that drops in a visual novel. I may or may not mean that literally.
Matthew McCarthy
Jul 30, 202114 min read
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Review: Petit Novel series – Harvest December (3DS)
I’m sorry for playing "Harvest December" in any month but December.
Matthew McCarthy
Jul 23, 20215 min read
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Retrospective Review: Portal 2 (PC)
It’s time to think with portals! Disclaimer: You can’t think with portals.
Matthew McCarthy
Jul 9, 20216 min read
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Review: Sonic Mania (PC)
The only Sonic game named after a psychological condition.
Matthew McCarthy
Jul 2, 20218 min read
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Review: Sonic & Knuckles (DS)
The final hurrah to the final hurrah of the Sonic Sega Genesis games.
Matthew McCarthy
Jul 1, 20215 min read
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Review: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (DS)
We now arrive to Sonic's final hurrah on the Sega Genesis, well, the first half of his final hurrah.
Matthew McCarthy
Jul 1, 20215 min read
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