Halo: Spartan Assault (2013)
Here we have the first of two top-down, twin-stick, shooter side-games from the #Halo series. Are they any good? Not particularly. #TGTRS
This is a special occasion. This is the first Halo game Iāve reviewed without completing it, and only because realistically, I already know exactly how the rest of the game is going to play out having managed approximately 30% of it over the course of 45 minutes. Yeah. Let that sink in for a moment.
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Halo 4 (2012)
More #Halo? Christ, how many of these games have they made? How many days and days must have gone into making this series of reviews? #Halo4. For your consideration. #TGTRS
You know, Iāve played so much bloody Halo over the last few days that I honestly donāt know how Iāve had the time to actually do it. Iād be impressed, if I hadnāt been cheating during each of the playthroughs.
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Halo 3: ODST (2009)
And now for something completely different. Only joking, it's more #Halo! This time, it's #ODST. #TGTRS
This is the fourth Halo review Iāll have written this weekend, having blasted through three and a half campaigns in the last few days. I had a week off work, what else was I supposed to do?
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The Best UK Number One Ofā¦ 1977
Iāve left this one rather late again, before getting it started. Still, if thereās anyone who can crack out eighteen short music reviews with the vaguest semblance of logic behind them, Iām sure itās me!
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Halo 2 (2004)
Honestly, you wouldn't believe how in advance this ended up being written, compared to when it was published. Anyway. #Halo2. #TGTRS
Funnily enough, I have only just finished writing the review for Halo: Combat Evolved in the last few minutes. I donāt know when theyāre going out, but I figured Iād mention it because itās an insight to the way that I operate (for better, or for worse) and itās always handy to have such things. The better you understand me as a person, the better you understand where Iām coming from when I writeā¦
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Halo: Combat Evolved (2001)
TG continues his second attempt at looking at the #Halo series, by playing the game that started it all. How does it hold up? #TGTRS
You might recall that a while back, I reviewed Halo: Reach. At the time, I had intended to go through the series, but that sort of fell by the wayside a bit. Canāt remember why, exactly, but life has a habit of being all funky sometimes so I would assume that happened. At any rate, Iāve been playing through the series again for my own personal entertainment and it struck me that I could justā¦
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Flashback: Halo: Reach (2010)
Today, we #Flashback to TG's review of #Halo #Reach from 2021, which happens to take the second slot in our look at the entire series... in chronological order! #TGTRS
We continue our look at the chronologically ordered Halo series with Halo: Reach. I first wrote about it back in 2021 and had intended, then, to cover the whole series. I mention this, funnily enough, in next weekās review, and I probably mentioned it in last weeks review, which Iāve not yet written. This has all been a bit out of order, really. And in advance. At any rate, here is my original,ā¦
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The Last Of Us Part I (2022/2023)
This happened. Enjoy.
Not often that I have to make two distinctions in the opening paragraph, but here goes. I never played the original version of The Last Of Us, from 2013, but I have played the remastering that they did in 2022, but the version I played was for Windows which wasnāt released until 2023. Confused? You shouldnāt be, but I donāt blame you. All that really matter is that this is a review for theā¦
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The Best UK Number One Ofā¦ 1976
Which song is the #BestUKNumberOne of #1976? Only one way to find out. Read this! #TGTRS
Itās that time again, where I take a look at the UK Number Ones from a particular year. This month, the year is 1976, and let me tell you, weāre getting to the point where I generally know the songs. In fact, I can remember nine of the sixteen tracks from todayās list, off the top of my head, and that doesnāt include the one that I know Iāve definitely written about but just canāt remember how itā¦
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Lucifer (2016-2021)
Meant to sort this one a while ago, ended up doing it now cos I haven't got anything else lined up and I'm almost out of drafts! Still, good to get it on screen at last. #Lucifer #TVReview #TGTRS
Over the years there have been many portrayals of the religious entity known as The Devil. This tv series follows on such portrayal. Letās see if itās any good, shall we?
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Dying Light (2015)
"I wrote this nearly a year ago." -TG
In all seriousness, this was genuinely written last June. It was scheduled last June. It's been sat, waiting for this exact moment, for months. Let's hope it was worth it! #TGTRS #DyingLight #GoodNightGoodLuck
This is one of those times where Iāve decided to go ahead and play something for my own benefit, and then opted to write a review after. The last time I did that, it was for most of the Halo series though as Iāve yet to decide when I am publishing that or this, this could well be the first of such reviews you end up reading. Though of course, statistically speaking, no-oneās reading thisā¦
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Billy Joel - Turn The Lights Back On
Today, TG takes a look at the new track from #BillyJoel, #TurnTheLightsBackOn, his first single since 2007. Is it good? Of course it is! It's Billy! #TGTRS
Oh my, a music review? Thatās not normal, is it? Not this year, at least. Itās been games all the way down. No, I heard that this had come out and thought, sod it, letās do a music review!
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Bee Simulator (2020)
TG takes a look at 2020's #BeeSimulator, a game in which you play a bee through an un-bee-lievably short story mode! #TGTRS
I love a good simulation game. Iām quite keen on bees. It made logical sense to play a game combining the two, but is that game any good?
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The Best UK Number One Ofā¦ 1975
This got cracked out pretty quick. What d'ya reckon the biggest flaw and biggest win from #1975 are? #TGTRS #UKNumberOne
I left this one rather late to get started. Whoops!
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Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (2023)
Does the colon look like itās in the wrong place to you? It does to me, too. Very strange, very peculiar. Ah well. Regular readers that take a close look at our video game reviews will know that I looked at Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and really took a shine to it. Did that translate over to Survivor?
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Teardown (2022)
Mid-last year, TG was playing this and wrote this review. Today, we publish it. That's some serious planning. #Teardown #TGTRS
I spend far too much time working out what I intend to write, and when. Itās mostly games, to be fair. I have so many, it would be hard for me to organise myself well enough to review any, if I didnāt plan ahead. As it happens, today (my time) I queued up a bunch of reviews that Iād already written, but would not fit into āthe planā until much, much, later. It is good, I feel, to keep on top ofā¦
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High On Life (2022)
This is one of those games that I knew I would want to play, when it was first announced, but then took my time actually getting round to buying and playing. I then spent a Sunday completing the story. I would say therefore that I found the experience to be underwhelming, which probably means you donāt need to read the rest of this review, unless of course you want to know why, exactly, Iām goingā¦
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