Supergiant Games’ Hades is positively divine and this is the story of how it restored my faith in roguelikes.
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Innovation is a mere buzzword. Changes happen in a microcosm. Mortal Shell enjoyably drives that point home, like a sword in a monster’s gut.
Ghost of Tsushima. Does it attack with honour? Or is its blade dull? — The Regional Exclusive Mage answers all, without the aid of any more terrible haiku.
Something weird is growing on Nintendo Switch and it’s Atomicrops, the hideously fun lovechild of farming sims and rogue-lites, with bullet hell for flavor.
Sakura Wars skirts the line between visual novel and mech combat, and while some continue to ask “what is a game?”, fans of visual novels will eat this up.
John Wick Hex is here to give you your Keanu-Reeves-in-a-video-game fix ahead of Cyberpunk, but is the game a blessing or a curse?
The Teal Time Mage finishes his online classes at Yavin IV with his review of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy!
Resident Evil 3… a necessary remake or should Capcom have left well enough alone? Our evil resident Resident Evil reviewer rates RE3!
Re-experience games “from back when we were fine with video games being fun rather than art”! Bayonetta & Vanquish 10th Anniversary Bundle: fast and fun.
Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph….
Examining authenticity & the mythological backdrop of metamorphosis in this Link’s Awakening critique. A spectacular reimagining of a classic.
Despite my multiple frustrations, countless deaths, and whispered curses every time Mike took forever to turn around, StarTropics is a game I’m glad I stuck out to the end.
There are only a few films that I feel truly define the 80s as a whole.
Dogs kind of default to making friends unless provoked. Cats seem to default to making enemies unless convinced otherwise.
-Perry Elisabeth Kirkpatrick
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, maybe the most controversial Zelda game, but does it deserve the bum rap or is that just internet noise?
“Elysium is a perfect world, created by the Ancients thousands of years ago. A world of eternal youth… a world without disease, hunger or war.” -Yuna, Mega Man Legends 2
Oniken: Unstoppable Edition proves that the folks over at JoyMasher really do understand retro. This is an authentic retro action experience!
Death at the gates again, howling my name.
Can’t greet you today, I’ve a war to win.
-BJ Blazkowicz
Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a single truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
-Miguel Syjuco
When you can’t cheat the game, you’d best find a means to cheat the players….
“Show a little more respect…
For Faerie Tales…”
-Sydney Losstarot, Vagrant Story
“Enter at your own peril! Past the bolted door where impossible things may happen, that the world’s never seen before!”
-Dexter’s Laboratory: End Credits
Horizon Zero Dawn is a feast for fans of all things science fiction from Planet of the Apes to Terminator to Asimov’s Foundation.
Moonlighter asks the real questions: What happens when the lights go out in a normal RPG item shop? How do they get their wares?
Pensive and unhurried, The Fall takes its time exploring its themes as you explore its darkest labyrinths.
“Kindness and good nature unite men more effectually and with greater strength than any agreements whatsoever, since thereby the engagements of men’s hearts become stronger than the bond and obligation of words.”
-Thomas More, Utopia
I can assure you with utmost confidence that no magical, fire-breathing dinosaurs were harmed in the making of this video game.
