Creepy Tale asks you to explore a terrifying forest filled with otherworldly creatures. But is it frighteningly good or terrifyingly bad?
Adventure
The adorably animated and charming NAIRI: Tower of Shirin gets its review at last, but has the ship already sailed for point-and-click games?
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.
The Teal Time Mage finishes his online classes at Yavin IV with his review of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy!
With the “Super Mario Multiverse”, we take a look inside the spooky and spectacular handheld sequel to Luigi’s Mansion! Does it stand a ghost of a chance?
Nintendo Land (Wii U) joins the Super Mario Multiverse for MAR10, 2020: celebrating the history, inspiration, imagination, and joy of Super Mario!
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.
Ghosts are all around us. Look for them, and you will find them. -Ruskin Bond…
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.
“I’ve always been a fan of folklore and mythology, so Fables just seemed the perfect culmination of all that. All my career I’ve been flipping folklore and fairy tale stuff into superhero books.”
“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
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles is the cute and combat-less title you’re looking for if you’re tired of all the gritty violence in games.
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
First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.
“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.
Tired of the fast lane? Shape of the World is simple recreation, accessible entertainment, picturesque at best, and easy going.
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.
“God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
Why look’st thou so?’—With my cross-bow
I shot the albatross.”
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Marine
“Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.”
-Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“Space is big. Really big. You just won’t believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”
-Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy
“Wherever he saw a hole he always wanted to know the depth of it. To him this was important.”
-Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth
“One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure.”
-William Feather
