by Elvie Mae Parian | Oct 1, 2018 | Reviews, Video Games
Sidequest was provided with a copy of Super Seducer 2: Advanced Seduction Tactics for PC in exchange for a fair and honest review.
Content warning: this review will discuss misogynistic elements, racism, and contains images that are sexual in nature. This piece also contains spoilers for the game. (more…)
Elvie somehow finds bliss in purposefully complicating the art of storytelling and undertaking the painful practice of animation. If you see her on Twitter at @lvmaeparian, she is doing neither of those things. She currently helps with managing the socials to ensure that the secret recipe will never be revealed.
by Naseem Jamnia | Sep 13, 2018 | Essays, Mobile Games, Video Games
Welcome back to Mystic Messenger Trash, a gaming diary that chronicles my experience playing Mystic Messenger for the first time. The following contains spoilers for Jaehee’s good route of the game (and one of her bad endings).
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Sidequest’s former managing editor Naseem Jamnia used to do sciencey things, but they now slam their keyboard and call it art. By night, they play a lot of video games. And regardless of the time, they spend way too much of it on Twitter, @jamsternazzy. Also, their debut novella, THE BRUISING OF QILWA, comes out in August 2022!
by Melissa Brinks | Aug 27, 2018 | Reviews, Video Games
Sidequest has had its proverbial eye on Monster Prom for some time. It was a huge hit with our PAX West team of 2017, it was the first game we streamed as a newly launched site, and it’s been something we returned to again and again in eager anticipation of its full release.
Once we got around to playing the whole thing, we decided to sit down and have a conversation about what works for us, what concerns us, and what we’d like to see in the future.
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Melissa Brinks is Sidequest’s editor in chief, co-creator of the Fake Geek Girls podcast, author of The Compendium of Magical Beasts, and an aspiring beekeeper. She once won an argument on the internet, and tweets at @MelissaBrinks.
by Nola Pfau | Apr 16, 2018 | Interviews, Video Games
It’s not a secret that finding representation for marginalized communities can be difficult, and that’s as true for video games as it is for anywhere else. So, when I stumbled on Kenzie Wintermelon’s game Hardcoded through her art blog, I was immediately taken; here is a game starring a trans woman who dates trans women, told from the perspective of one. It provides a layer of authenticity to the experience that AAA games generally lack, should they bother to include such representation at all.
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by Melissa Brinks | Nov 25, 2016 | Reviews, Video Games
As a lifelong sucker for a buff girl in armor, Rose of Winter is about as far up my alley as it’s possible to get.
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Melissa Brinks is Sidequest’s editor in chief, co-creator of the Fake Geek Girls podcast, author of The Compendium of Magical Beasts, and an aspiring beekeeper. She once won an argument on the internet, and tweets at @MelissaBrinks.
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