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There's something special about playing video games in the gap between Christmas and New Year. For this period, I tend to favour slower collectathon games that allow me to reflect on the year past and even to grieve.
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A few years ago, I had a very bad post-Christmas period when I found out my oldest friend was dying and was planning to go see him. I played the Spyro games remakes intensely for a week and it helped process my thoughts and my grief.
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This year, I'm playing THE PATHLESS and collecting every secret I can find in this lush open-world. I'm thinking about the 1.5 million preventable deaths we've seen this year. I'm collecting crystals and thinking about the unimaginable scale of death we've seen in 2020.
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For this period of the year, I don't want expansive stories or complicated RPG systems. I just want to wander a world and collect everything I can find.