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Hello dear readers and welcome to Shoot the Rookie! Today’s post is a rather exciting one, as today is the day that I am revealing which JRPG the gaming community voted as their favourite. Come join me to find out the winners, the losers and the nearly-but-not-quiters!
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Hello dear readers and welcome to Shoot the Rookie, where today I’m sharing a very special guest post with you! A few weeks ago I launched The Great JRPG Showdown, and today my partner Seb has written a post telling us about his top 5 JRPGs. Huge thanks to Seb for writing such a wonderful post for my blog, I hope you’ll all enjoy it! Take it away, Seb…
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Hello dear readers and thanks for joining me on what is sure to be a very exciting day for the blog and hopefully for you too! Why so exciting? Well that’s because today I am launching a new community event that I’d love you all to get involved with, and if it is anything as fun as the last one I did then the next few weeks are going to be an absolute treat. Why not join me to find out more and learn how to take part!
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Hello dear readers and welcome to another silly post here on Shoot the Rookie. Today I’m looking at one of my favourite games, Xenoblade Chronicles, and one of my favourite aspects of the game, the in-battle conversations. Come join me to learn some of the ridiculous chat I’ve overheard from the characters whilst playing the game!
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Hello dear readers and welcome to the second of my collaboration reposts! If you missed my previous post, it was a repost of my piece originally written for the Normal Happenings collaboration – The Games That Define Us – and today I’m reposting my piece from last year’s collaboration – The Characters That Define Us. So come join me to find out who that is and why!
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Hello dear readers and welcome to my final post of 2020. Here I’m taking a look at all the games I’ve enjoyed this year, so sit back, relax, and join me for Shoot the Rookie’s gaming review of the year.
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Hello dear readers and welcome to another special edition of Shoot the Rookie. Last week me and fellow blogger Winst0lf revealed the results of The Great JRPG Character Face-Off. Although those posts marked the end of the event I wanted to do one more post in order to reveal every single character who was voted for in the event. So why not join me as I reveal the identity of all 86 characters!
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Hello dear readers and welcome to this week’s Seriously Geeky Sundays post. This week we are looking at all things summertime so get that sunscreen ready as we plunge into the world of fictional summers!
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Dear readers! Hello! Welcome to another Seriously Geeky Sunday here on Shoot the Rookie. After sadly missing last week’s prompt I’m back with a vengeance to answer today’s questions which are all about romance. Why not join me in discussing one of my favourite topics?
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Hello dear readers and welcome to another Seriously Geeky Sunday. As today is Father’s Day, the topic for today’s questions is fathers and father figures. There are SO many to choose from across geeky fandoms so let’s go on and have a look at who I’ve picked.
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