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If you're looking for a review on this game you've come to the wrong place, but if you're looking for an outstanding pie recipe you've come to the right place.

Ingredients:

1. 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
2. 1/2 cup white sugar
3. 1/2 cup brown sugar
4. 1/4 cup water
5. 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
6. 1 pinch salt
7. 5 apples - peeled, cored and sliced
8. 1 pastry for double-crust pie

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
2. Combine butter, white sugar, brown sugar, water, cinnamon, and salt in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil, remove from heat and set aside.
3. Roll out half the pastry to fit a 9-inch pie plate. Place bottom crust in pie plate; pour in apple slices.
4. Roll out top crust into a 10-inch circle. Cut into 8 (1-inch) wide strips with a sharp paring knife or pastry wheel. Weave the pastry strips, one at a time, into a lattice pattern. Fold the ends of the lattice strips under the edge of the bottom crust and crimp to seal.
5. Pour butter-sugar mixture over top of pie, coating the lattice, and allowing any remaining sauce to drizzle through the crust.
6. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C), and bake until the crust is golden brown, the caramel on the top crust is set, and the apple filling is bubbling, 35 to 40 more minutes. Allow to cool completely before slicing.

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If you want a good review of the game, you're at the wrong place. However, If you're looking for a super simple, comforting, no-frills bowl of spaghetti and meatballs, you've come to the right place.

INGREDIENTS:
1 lb. spaghetti
1 lb. ground beef
1/3 c. bread crumbs
1/4 c. finely chopped parsley
1/4 c. freshly grated Parmesan, plus more for serving
1 large egg
2 garlic cloves, minced
Kosher salt
1/2 tsp. red pepper flakes
2 tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil
1/2 c. onion, finely chopped
1 (28-oz.) can crushed tomatoes
1 bay leaf
Freshly ground black pepper

DIRECTIONS:
1. In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook pasta until al dente. Drain.
2. In a large bowl, combine beef with bread crumbs, parsley, Parmesan, egg, garlic, 1 teaspoon salt, and red pepper flakes. Mix until just combined then form into 16 balls.
3. In a large pot over medium heat, heat oil. Add meatballs and cook, turning occasionally, until browned on all sides, about 10 minutes. Transfer meatballs to a plate.
4. Add onion to pot and cook until soft, 5 minutes. Add crushed tomatoes and bay leaf. Season with salt and pepper and bring to a simmer. Return meatballs to pot and cover. Simmer until sauce has thickened, 8 to 10 minutes.
5. Serve pasta with a healthy scoop of meatballs and sauce. Top with Parmesan before serving.

Hope this helped!

If you're looking for a review on this game you've come to the wrong place, but if you're looking for an outstanding pie recipe you've come to the right place.

Ingredients:

1. 6 tablespoons unsalted butter
2. 1/2 cup white sugar
3. 1/2 cup brown sugar
4. 1/4 cup water
5. 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
6. 1 pinch salt
7. 5 apples - peeled, cored and sliced
8. 1 pastry for double-crust pie

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
2. Combine butter, white sugar, brown sugar, water, cinnamon, and salt in a saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil, remove from heat and set aside.
3. Roll out half the pastry to fit a 9-inch pie plate. Place bottom crust in pie plate; pour in apple slices.
4. Roll out top crust into a 10-inch circle. Cut into 8 (1-inch) wide strips with a sharp paring knife or pastry wheel. Weave the pastry strips, one at a time, into a lattice pattern. Fold the ends of the lattice strips under the edge of the bottom crust and crimp to seal.
5. Pour butter-sugar mixture over top of pie, coating the lattice, and allowing any remaining sauce to drizzle through the crust.
6. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes. Reduce heat to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C), and bake until the crust is golden brown, the caramel on the top crust is set, and the apple filling is bubbling, 35 to 40 more minutes. Allow to cool completely before slicing.

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The magic and bittersweet feelings this gives me is indescribable. Yume Nikki is such phenomenal, dreamlike, depressing, happy, existential experience.

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I played it for boobies. Heh

‘Mad Father’ was originally released way back in 2012 by Miscreant’s Room. It gained moderate success with streamers like Markiplier, which gave it a lot of visibility. The game was brought to life by Japanese developer Sen and developed in the WOLF RPG engine, which in most cases, would kind of limit it. Well, after 8 years the definitive version of this game, just released on PC and Nintendo Switch and it shows that a good horror game is not only about the engine, but the game design at the core.

‘Mad Father’ is a top down, 2D survival horror game that stars a young 11 year old girl named Aya, who suspects her father might be up to something in the basement of their mansion/castle. Aya’s mother passed away, a while back and Aya has been struggling with her father’s burgeoning relationship with his assistant, Maria. What’s even scarier than your father finding new love, right before your eyes? That’s right. Corpse doll monsters. Obviously.

Aya has to try and descend into the depths of her fathers research lab while facing off against killer dolls, ghosts, walking corpses and even the Mad Father himself. Gameplay is mostly exploration and puzzle solving with no real combat, similar to 3D titles like ‘Remothered’ or even ‘Outlast.’ The puzzles on offer here are really good though. They’re challenging but not to the point of frustration. Likewise, the exploration – which is something I often struggle with – is all landmarked beautifully.

I rarely, if ever, lost my way as the design of the maps and the signposting of events was handled incredibly well. It’s a real testament to the designers having a clear vision of what they want the player to do, but always making the player feel like they figured it out, all by themselves. Compared to much bigger games, like ‘The Dark Occult,’ the game never finds itself making the player backtrack for miles, sure they’ve missed out on something.

The game is relatively short, rounding out at about three and a half, to four hours; which is not bad considering the games budget price on Steam and Switch. Especially when you factor in the huge amount of replay ability. You’ll want to get all the endings and discover the truth of what went on with Aya’s family and beyond that there are plenty of collectibles to unlock, new side stories to play and achievements to collect.

If there was any criticism of the game, it would be in the localization, which is common in Japanese indie titles. Some of the dialogue gets very repetitive and can often feel over simplified. The game manages to get in a few really solid jump scares in its short run time, though again I did find myself wishing for just a little bit more straight up horror moments. The game is psychologically challenging and disturbing, though sometimes this is lost in the localization, which can make the dialogue seem goofy.

I see closets, I hide