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Nostalgia is a relatively new feeling for me.

I'm in my mid-20s, and for the first time,

I'm seeing stuff from when I was a kid come back in style.

We are fully in the throes of 2000s nostalgia.

I'm talking emo, indie slees, denim, Y2K, standard definition digital video,

and one of my favorites, the bubbly Frutiger-Aro design style

that partially inspired Apple's new liquid

glass. But now that our cultural nostalgia cycle has cut up to when I was a kid, I'm starting to

realize what kinds of things I'm nostalgic about. One of the biggest is 2008's Lego Batman

the video game.

This game is great. No dialogue, Danny Elfman music, simple classic designs.

This game is what introduced me to the Gothic art deco world of Gotham City and the dark carnival of Batman characters.

Growing up around the prairies of Saskatchewan Canada, this game was my window into the

big city, with its cathedrals and skyscrapers, and likely planted the desire to one day move

to New York City. After a 12-year hiatus, the fourth game in the

Lego Batman series comes out today. Lego Batman Legacy of the Dark Night, a new installment

that blends stories from across the Batman films, shows, and comics, featuring classic

Lego puzzle gameplay with the movement

and combat of the Rocksteady Arkham games. I actually got to play a demo version of this

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