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This Stranger Things-style adventure game is an overwhelming blast of nostalgia
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There’s a certain breed of entertainment that manages to be nostalgic for a particular era, while still transcending that allure to become a wonderful spectacle on its own. For all of the Ghostbusters and Clash references in Stranger Things, it’s still a tense sci-fi thriller unto itself. The same goes for the excellent comic series Paper Girls, or the Black Mirror episode “San Junipero,” both of which use the time period as a jumping-off point to explore larger themes about technological advancement.
Crossing Souls is a new 2D action / adventure game that launched this week on PC and PS4, after being in development for several years. It doesn’t quite reach those lofty heights: take away its synth-heavy soundtrack and copious ‘80s…
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