The Pixels

Elemental Video Game Critiques

Multiplayer

14 min read

Multiversus earns its existence. And it does so by providing something to the genre that not even Super Smash Bros. can provide.

7 min read

Tetris 99 combines the classic puzzle game with modern Battle Royale gameplay. Skeptical? Try it for yourself and get hooked all over again.

17 min read

With Gordon Ramsay-like culinary expertise and barely concealed existential rage, the Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage takes a peek at Overcooked! 2, which may or may not be as good as the first one.

16 min read

Is Overcooked a fun couch co-op experience about the joy of creating delicious meals, or a treatise on the inevitable descent of all things into chaos? The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage says: why not both?

11 min read

“Negative space is important. When I teach students to read critically I advise them to look for what the author isn’t saying just as carefully as for what he or she is.”
-Aaron Belz

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