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Season's greetings all!Since this is the last Letter from America of 2013, I thought I'd do something a little different and invite the USgamer team to tell you about the stories they most enjoyed writing this year. Essentially, it's a retro-spectacular, best-of-USgamer-a-thon. So if you're sitting comfortably, let's begin.
Jeremy Parish (Senior Editor): I don't know that I've ever thrown more time, energy, effort, and passion into a single piece of writing knowing full well I'd be lucky if more than a handful of people bothered to read it than with the Umihara Kawase retrospective I put together at Tokyo Game Show this year. Indie Before It Was Cool: The Umihara Kawase Story is a feature I never thought I'd have the opportunity to write; in fact, it only happened because I made a request to interview Umihara Kawase creator Kiyoshi Sakai fully expecting a negative response. When I actually got a "yes", I felt slightly terrified at the prospect of meeting the man behind such a brilliant game. But neither could I turn down the opportunity, even if it meant taking a train ride an hour out from Tokyo in the midst of a busy trade show.
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