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For some people, a thoughtful gift or an act of service is a perfect display of love. For others, their love language is a big plate of bread and a tall glass of wine.

No matter one’s preference, these restaurants offer a perfect array of options to celebrate Valentine's Day locally with your significant other, your best friend or yourself.

Known for its mouthwatering steaks, juicy shrimp and a variety of phenomenal appetizers, Anthony’s Good Food Market has served the West Point community and beyond for over 50 years in its easygoing, casual attire atmosphere. The restaurant is more pricey, but it is nice for a special occasion.

Along with its selfproclaimed good food, Anthony’s also allows its guests to brown bag the wine and spirits of their choosing for $5 a bottle. The restaurant will be open from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Valentine’s Day, and we advise making a reservation beforehand to ensure a successful experience.

TASTE Italian Kitchen, located at 208 Lincoln Green in Starkville, is perfect for an upscale, classy dinner. It offers an exceptional wine selection, pasta menu and outstanding customer service for a more expensive choice.

For something romantic and fun, Arepas Coffee & Bar offers great drinks and a cute location perfect for pictures. The menu features a wide variety of authentic Venezuelan cuisine that is very customizable.

Marina Fable, a server at Arepas, said the best thing about Arepas was the community built around it.

“My favorite thing about Arepas is that all the staff are super close with each other and that we have so many regulars that come in just to sit and talk for hours,” Fable said. “If you go this Valentine’s Day, I highly recommend the passionfruit mojito.” bag, and it can fail quite easily. This, for me, fails.

In a new location in the Cotton District, Arepas features a $3 daily mimosa deal that includes four different flavors to try. It is a smaller, intimate place sure to light a spark on Valentine’s Day. No reservations needed.

“Dead Space” (2023) is a great example of a game that felt dated the day it came out.

The original came out in October 2008, almost 15 years ago. At the time, critics and players alike raved over its horror elements, enemies and gameplay.

Now, I found it quite underwhelming.

The game plays well. The enemies are quite interesting, and the environments are all right. But after about two hours, the game just lost me.

Enemies are painfully predictable. They are only scary due to their jump-scares, which got old very quickly and are seen as a cop-out for good horror in my eyes.

The game does seem like a good time, and people are enjoying it. But for me, it is just dark chocolate — something I can tell is good, just not for me.

Horror movies are some of my favorites. Horror games, on the other hand, I find a more interesting topic. For whatever reason, the horror genre in games is such a mixed

Harveys, serving the Starkville community since 1982 on Highway 12, is the perfect way to encapsulate the Starkville experience for outof-towners. The restaurant offers multiple award nominated items such as an array of fish, steaks, sandwiches and amazing cocktails.

Tuesday nights at Commodore Bob’s Yacht Club are always reserved for its famous $20 steak and fries deal, and this Valentine’s Day is no exception.

At Commodore Bob’s, $20 provides a great cut of steak, laid delicately on their rosemary garlic fries, topped with a phenomenal peppercorn sauce. Along with a glass of wine or a bottle of beer, Commodore Bob’s offers a great deal for a classy meal that won’t break the bank.

NutriGoove opened its storefront to the Starkville community in 2022, after moving to the Cotton District and expanding from its food truck. In the first few weeks of 2023, the restaurant began offering an extended list of hand-crafted cocktails.

The emerging “Starkville staple,” known for its fresh food and drinks, is the perfect spot for a laid-back Valentine’s evening. For those looking to stay in, Boardtown Pizza and Pints offers creative and fun pizza kits to satisfy holiday needs. your choice of two toppings and a container of pizza sauce,” said Griffin Bramer, a Boardtown employee. “This is a great Valentine’s Day idea because you can get creative with the pizzas and make them into shapes rather than MOLLIe BrOtHerS & SADIe OgLetree cONtrIButINg WrIterS

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Environments can make horror games work.

“Bioshock” (2007) is a horror game that does well due to certain environments.

The environments of "Dead Space" are also very interesting, but they are painfully repetitive. This is the drawback of every single feature in the game.

The story is the only aspect that is not repetitive, but it is predictable and boring. And to be frank, nobody buys “Dead Space” for the story.

Standard horror tropes are throughout the game, the story is told to you through audio logs and the true ending is not even shown in the first play through.

The gunplay is quite nice, however. It was one of the more highly anticipated aspect of this release, and I honestly like the variety and possibilities of combat because of the guns. While enjoyable and interesting, once again, the combat stays repetitive somehow.

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Some guns do have proximity mine and trip wire capabilities, but these are the only ways that combat varies besides cutting off the limbs of enemies in different ways. Yes, getting a new gun is fun, but using a saw to eliminate enemies over and over again gets quite annoying.

At the end of the day, I do not think this is a bad game. I simply believe that it is a good game that was not optimized outside of graphics for a 2023 release.

None of these make the game bad, but nothing will bring me to this game that is not done better in another title, making this game simply dull.

"Dead Space" was an iconic release in 2008 and helped to shape the landscape of horror games today. For a 2023 release, though, this reboot does the worst thing any reboot can do — it falls flat. You never feel the punches like you did in '08, and you are reminded why you should never meet your heroes.