This game is where neighborhood grudges were made and settled. Surely Satan himself created the DS Download Play deathmatch mode, it's the only explanation for the sheer hatred this game festered. Fake truces, cheesy bullshit tactics, looking at other people's screens - literally nothing was off the table. They should have given this an M rating because we treated it like a blood sport

Turok 3 traumatized me as a kid. Joshua Fireseed was my hero and role model, and I had spent hours messing around with the other two games. When I turned this shit on and he died in the fucking intro I think a part of my innocence died too, I was like 8 years old. Why would they do it?

I played this for the first time around a year ago during the final days of a period where I was intensely overworked for weeks straight. I had entered into some kind of sleep deprived rhythm, every day doing the exact same thing. One night I had a couple of hours of free time, saw Hotline Miami on sale for 99 cents, and four hours later I was a different person. There aren't even words that would explain how playing this felt after looking at spreadsheets for so long