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The Other in the Mirror

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By Christopher Byrd Verified
| Soundings from The New York Review
Reading Mathias Énard, one doesn’t sense any anxiety about the fate of the novel. Although some of Énard’s narrators play Tetris or log on to social media sites, they are generally bookish to the core and enamored of high culture, their own inner worlds, and the many connections that can be made between the two.
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A modern-day fairy tale about cycles of trauma

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By Christopher Byrd Verified
| The Star (Malaysia) Verified
In Reanimal, the night is long, the fog is opulent and the little girl on a journey vomits up a lamb that grows into a monstrously large, insatiable people-eater. The reasons for this are obscure, which will come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the output of Tarsier Studios, the Swedish developer of the first two Little Nightmares games. It has a taste for dream logic and for making abstract, modern-day fairy tales about children in perilous circumstances.
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A robot’s trek goes from infuriating to ingenious

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By Christopher Byrd Verified
| The Star (Malaysia) Verified
A few hours into MIO: Memories In Orbit, I wanted to bail. I didn’t think I had it in me to go on struggling with this deceptively cute and extremely challenging Metroidvania about a little robot in a labyrinthine spaceship. Gnarly platforming gantlets? Check. Tanky bosses? Check. Permanent health loss? Yep. Oh, the vile things I muttered as I repeatedly failed to cross toxic, touch-it-you-die “gloomwater” simply to reach a boss. More than 40 hours later, I am dazed by the trials I’ve overcome.
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