MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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Video Games Monitor with Scott Alsworth: January 3, 2023
When the best of intentions pave the road to boredom
[Infinite Fall]
MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
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CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
Night in the Woods
Infinite Fall (PC / Mac / Playstation 4 / Xbox One / Nintendo Switch / iOS)
NIGHT in the Woods is one of those games that seems to insist the world’s gone mad.
Not because you find yourself in the shoes of a pansexual cat with spaghetti legs who pokes severed arms with sticks for fun. And not because non-anthropomorphic animals aren’t triggering an existential crisis (Mr Wharton the pigeon is apparently quite unfazed by ordinary pigeons on the street).
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