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Steve Bowling
@steve.gvg.io
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Reviews Editor @GVG , Previously: Nintendo Life, GameXplain. As seen on: Kotaku, IGN, and your favorite podcasts everywhere!
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Hi. I got a sponsor for this video and frankly I’m kinda impressed how cool Raycon was about it lmao
January 15, 2026 at 12:14 AM
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Imagine shitting on someone for internet points from your 41 followers.
January 14, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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My year in Nintendo wrap up!
January 14, 2026 at 3:28 AM
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Rate my setup
January 13, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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2026 rocks
January 11, 2026 at 3:06 AM
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I beat Metroid Prime 4 a couple nights ago. 100% items, it took 16 hours and change. It did weird things to my brain, and I needed to write about it. So enjoy this unplanned meditation on the fourth Metroid Prime game.

Please repost and share it around :)
Within the first hour of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, Samus is imbued with psychic powers. From that moment onward, I spent my 16-hour first playthrough wishing I had psychic abilities, too. Not because I want to move things telekinetically or see into the future, but because I wish I could beam my thoughts about Metroid Prime 4 directly into someone else's mind. Your mind. Maybe I wouldn’t have to talk about this game--because, frankly, I think we’ve all talked about it too much already. Instead, you could know—feel—my experience with the game first-hand. If I had psychic powers, you would know what it feels like to have actively, stubbornly, held Metroid Prime as your favorite game these past 25 years, and the self-inflicted expectations I struggled against in the lead up to Prime 4’s launch. And you would know how it felt for all that to dissolve the moment I viewed an unknown world from behind the familiar HUD of Samus’ visor. If I could share my memories with you, you could trace in yourself the same shape of the emotions I felt while exploring Ice Belt--my awareness flitting between the unease in my gut and melancholy in my chest. The sense of scale I felt seeing the megalithic storm clouds of Volt Forge’s skybox. My surprise that Kenji Yamamoto and Minako Hamano somehow found such an alien electric guitar tone, but also chose to feature it prominently throughout the soundtrack. The familiar compulsion to break every green crystal and return to locations to collect lingering items, long before the game asked me to. The way a single unimportant scan in a Lamorn shrine evoked vivid images of the species’ final hours. How else, than with psychic abilities, could I convey the way the dissipating mist in Fury Green’s Cargo Launcher platform never lost its novelty? Or how it felt to look up from the depths of the Great Mines, see the gray sky peeking through the broken rock hundreds of feet above, and think, “This is all I’ve ever wanted from Metroid.” And if I could invite you into my mind, then you, like me, would also question if the only reason these familiar “Metroid-y” moments meant something is because they’re juxtaposed against my frustrations with the story; my disappointment in the brevity of Flare Pool and linearity of The Great Mines; my lingering apathy towards Samus’ companions and underutilized rival; my skepticism about whether this is the direction I want the series to take, if it continues. You would see how these highs and lows blend uncomfortably, echoing the unpleasant dissonance I felt between the oversaturated orange and purple hues of Sol Valley against the dense, dark, moody atmospheres of the on-foot biomes. Or the ways radio calls and escort missions impinge on segments of sublime isolation and engrossing visual design. Maybe after all of that, you, too, would struggle to resolve these contradictions and distill the totality of this arc into a succinct statement of quality, much I like am. Alas, I do not have psychic powers, so these words must suffice. Written & Designed by Brendan Hesse Proofreading & Feedback - Abram Buehner Special thankt to THE CRAWL Patraon Supporters
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Alright. Let’s start this and see how faithfully I can keep this up! Games I beat, 2026 edition!
January 2, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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How I’m starting 2026
January 1, 2026 at 8:22 AM
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My awesome wife got me the best holiday PJs ever!
December 25, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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I’m 81 hours into Persona 3 Reload and I’m afraid I’m about to make it everyone’s problem.
December 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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I forgot I ordered this!
December 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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First run through Pragmata Sketchbook. This game is going to be amazing.
December 13, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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dude this figure of end of namek Goku is so fucking cool
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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This journey to discover "The Greatest Games of All Time" comes to a close with this video! 25 games, 25 guests, and 3 hours of discussion on what makes every one of these games so incredible. Thank you to @jon.gvg.io for joining me for each and every one of these! youtu.be/wmjmvXfDB4c?...
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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Why is this game so pretty!?
December 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Update: I fast-forwarded.
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Me pretending it’s tomorrow already
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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I decided I was gonna buy Metroid Prime 4 years ago. I’ll watch reviews after I finish it.
December 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Hey! I teamed up with @amageish.bsky.social to review Marvel Cosmic Alliance! Check it out!
gvg.io GVG @gvg.io · Dec 1
Marvel Cosmic Invasion feels like a sequel to some of the best beat-'em-ups of the 90s. Our review is live now!

Thanks to Amageish for their contributions to this review!

youtu.be/zabgShC3wEE
December 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Could we also do best indie with a seven-figure budget?
antlervel.vet Stella @antlervel.vet · Nov 28
To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories:

- Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy
- Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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This was such a fun episode to shoot! You should go give it a listen!
daniel.gvg.io Daniel Alba @daniel.gvg.io · Nov 22
Probably the most engaging and enjoyable time I’ve had in a discussion in a long time, both with good friends @jon.gvg.io @steve.gvg.io and a topic I’m always ready to talk about:
youtu.be/l3XeHHkH2CI?...
Remembering The Gamecube - The Week in Nintendo
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November 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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YES
November 19, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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What we really should be asking is why the Switch 2’s card reader is substantially slower than internal memory/microSD Express.

This is the reason for at least one game going the Key Card route.
bitnerd.gvg.io Derrick Bitner @bitnerd.gvg.io · Nov 11
Sure is fun having a game key card debate with nearly every major Switch 2 release.
November 11, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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We can all agree Rauru’s doing the kikoho, right?
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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I had no idea what Dinkum was until the Direct. But thanks to this sponsored spot, I've actually found it to be quite the enjoyable survival game with a dash of Dragon Quest Builders. Plus I got to work on this with @belleaim.com and that's always a good time! youtu.be/Asna_CfafeM?...
Dinkum - Aussie Made, Builders Approved (#Sponsored)
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November 3, 2025 at 8:57 PM