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Rowan Kaiser

Rowan’s Metroidvania Rankings

I recently got the Castlevania Advance collection on Xbox was reminded just how dang much enjoyment I’ve gotten out of these games, and…

8 min readJan 17, 2023

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Rowan’s Metroidvania Rankings

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Rowan Kaiser

Veronica Mars’ Shock Twist Betrayed its Themes, Fans, and Characters

In 2014, riding the wave of the Veronica Mars Movie Kickstarter’s popularity, the CW Seed produced a comic webseries spinoff of the show…

11 min readAug 1, 2019

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Veronica Mars’ Shock Twist Betrayed its Themes, Fans, and Characters

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Rowan Kaiser

The Novels That Made Game of Thrones

(A couple years ago, when writing my book, I went….way over my word count. Three of my favorite chapters were scrubbed, but, with Game of…

9 min readMay 28, 2019

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The Novels That Made Game of Thrones

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Rowan Kaiser

The Shows That Wish They Were Game of Thrones

Once Game of Thrones was ensconced as one of television’s biggest hits, proving that medieval or SF/F costume dramas could become popular,

11 min readMay 28, 2019

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The Shows That Wish They Were Game of Thrones

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Rowan Kaiser

The Shows That Made Game of Thrones

There are a bunch of shows out there with strands of DNA in common with Thrones: the shows that laid the groundwork for it.

12 min readMay 28, 2019

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The Shows That Made Game of Thrones

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Rowan Kaiser

Social Justice Witcher

This article originally appeared at ZAM, RIP.

6 min readOct 1, 2018

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Social Justice Witcher

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Rowan Kaiser

Mass Effect: Andromeda — Why?

This is not a review of Mass Effect: Andromeda.

10 min readApr 1, 2017

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Mass Effect: Andromeda — Why?

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Rowan Kaiser

How To Play Mass Effect — Start With ME2

With the impending release of Mass Effect: Andromeda, a bunch of people are replaying or starting the Shepard trilogy. But the series has…

9 min readFeb 27, 2017

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How Lord of the Rings made Game of Thrones

George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire novels are, in many ways, a rebellion against Tolkein’s Lord of the Rings, which provided a…

6 min readFeb 1, 2017

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Rowan Kaiser

Dear Twitter, It’s Time To Ban Donald Trump

(Part of resisting involves seeking out your opponents’ sources of power and either negating them or turning them to weaknesses. In this…

7 min readNov 30, 2016

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Dear Twitter, It’s Time To Ban Donald Trump

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Rowan Kaiser

Rowan Kaiser

Contributing writer @TheAVClub, freelance game critic. Owner of #twokitties, tabby & black. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/rowankaiser

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