Love/Hate is a series on IC2S where I take a media franchise and go through each entry, going through what I love and what I hate about it. Really, it’s that simple!
Ape Escape
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Love/Hate: Ape Escape 3
Welcome back to the Ape Escape Love/Hate series! In this entry we’ll be looking at the final,…
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Love/Hate: Ape Escape 2
Welcome back to the Ape Escape Love/Hate series! In this entry we’ll be looking at the PS2…
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Love/Hate: Ape Escape
It’s time for a new Love/Hate series on IC2S! For those who have been following my Resident…
Resident Evil
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil 1.5 (BONUS)
Welcome back to a very special bonus entry in the Resident Evil love/hate series! In this entry…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil 3 – Nemesis
Welcome back to the Resident Evil love/hate series! In this entry we’ll be going over the original…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil 2
Welcome back to the Resident Evil love/hate series! In this entry we’ll be going over the original…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil
Welcome back to the Resident Evil love/hate series! Now that we’ve been through all the main entries…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil – Dead Aim
Welcome back to the Resident Evil love/hate series! In this entry we’ll be going over the third,…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil Survivor 2 – Code: Veronica
Welcome back to the Resident Evil love/hate series! In this entry we’ll be going over one of…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil – Code: Veronica X
Welcome back to the Resident Evil love/hate series! It has been quite a while since the last…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil – Operation Raccoon City
Welcome back to the Resident Evil love/hate series! In this entry we’re looking at Resident Evil: Operation…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil Gaiden
Welcome back to the Resident Evil love/hate series! In this entry we’re looking at the truly bizarre…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil Village
Welcome back to the Resident Evil love/hate series! In this entry we’re looking at Resident Evil Village,…
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Love/Hate: Umbrella Corps
Yeah that’s right, this one doesn’t even have the Resident Evil moniker, Capcom literally just called it…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil – Revelations 2
Welcome back to the Resident Evil love/hate series! In this entry we’re looking at Resident Evil: Revelations…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil – Revelations
Welcome back to the Resident Evil love/hate series! In this entry we’re going to start arguably the…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil 0
Welcome back to the Resident Evil love/hate series! In this entry we’re going to be looking at…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil Survivor
Welcome back to the Resident Evil love/hate series! Previously we went through the series from the remake…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard
After the bloated and unpolished Resident Evil 6, excitement for a new mainline Resident Evil game was…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil 6
Resident Evil 6 is often considered the point where the franchise jumped the shark, leading to Capcom’s…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil 5
Resident Evil 5 was actually the first Resident Evil game I got far into. I had a…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil 4
Resident Evil 4 is often considered once of the greatest games of all time, having reinvented the…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil 3 (Remake)
While the remake of Resident Evil 2 was widely acclaimed, the follow-up remake of Resident Evil 3…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil 2 (Remake)
It took nearly twenty years, but fans finally got the Resident Evil 2 remake they had been…
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Love/Hate: Resident Evil (Remake)
Welcome back to another Love/Hate series! You may be surprised to hear that, despite having a whole…
Dead Space
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Love/Hate: Dead Space Extended Universe
From the very beginning Dead Space was conceived as a multi-media franchise. To that end it managed…
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Love/Hate: Dead Space 3
Man, I was being nice to this game back when I wrote my original review of it….
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Love/Hate: Dead Space 2
Welcome back to the next entry in the Dead Space Love/Hate series. Today we’re going to be…
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Love/Hate: Dead Space – Extraction
For the second entry in the Dead Space Love/Hate series, we have Dead Space: Extraction, the shockingly…
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Love/Hate: Dead Space
Dead Space is one of my favourite video game franchises. It’s like it’s made to appeal to…
PlayStation
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Love/Hate: PS Vita
Love Amazing Hardware – The hardware of the PS Vita is, simply put, fantastic. In fact, I’d…
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Love/Hate: PS3
Love Trophies – Probably my favourite innovation that the PS3 brought was the advent of trophies (which,…
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Love/Hate: PSP
Love Great Hardware – The PSP was a really great little handheld. It was very well-designed, felt…
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Love/Hate: PS1
Hey, it’s time for another Love/Hate series! This time we’re going to be going through each of…
Dark Souls
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Love/Hate – Nioh
I’m going to do something slightly different here – normally I’d just be looking at the Dark…
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Love/Hate – Dark Souls 3
Love Refined Game Engine – As groundbreaking as the Souls games are, they have always been incredibly janky…
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Love/Hate – Bloodborne
While it isn’t actually a part of the Souls series, Bloodborne is in a similar mold with some very…
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Love/Hate – Dark Souls 2
Love Some Memorable Characters – Somewhat surprisingly, Dark Souls 2 has a lot of characters which hold up…
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Love/Hate – Dark Souls
I recently began replaying Dark Souls, this time on PS4 with the remastered edition. Having played a ton…
Pokemon
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Love/Hate: Pokemon Scarlet & Violet
Welcome back to the Pokemon love/hate series! We’re covering the newest mainline entry in the franchise today,…
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Love/Hate: Let’s Go, Eevee!
It has been a while since I did a Pokemon Love/Hate and you may notice that there…
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Love/Hate: Pokemon Sword & Shield
Over a year ago I wrote the first of what would become my Love/Hate series, a retrospective…
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Love/Hate: Pokemon Gen 7
Generation 7 (Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon) Love Much-Needed Gameplay Refinements and Improved Accessibility – I’m…
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Love/Hate: Pokemon Gen 6
Generation 6 (X, Y, Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire) Love New Graphics Engine Shines – The pseudo-3D sprites…
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Love/Hate: Pokemon Gen 5
Generation 5 (Black, White, Black 2, White 2) Love Insane Refinement and Ambition – Gen 5 was…
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Love/Hate: Pokemon Gen 4
Generation 4 (Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver) Love Physical/Special Split Totally Changed the Game – As I’ve said before, in the…
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Love/Hate: Pokemon Gen 3
(Just a disclaimer on this entry, Generation 3 is the only gen that I haven’t experienced first-hand….
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Love/Hate: Pokemon Gen 2
Generation 2 (Gold, Silver, Crystal) Love Quality of Life Improvements – It cannot be overstated just how much better…
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Love/Hate: Pokemon Gen 1
It isn’t really something that I have mentioned here on IC2S, but I absolutely love the Pokemon…