Final Fantasy III is a piece of FF history that’s more accessible than ever thanks to the Pixel Remasters.
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Final Fantasy II gets the Pixel Remaster treatment with a wealth of QOL and visual upgrades. Is it enough for this black sheep of the series?
Jupiter Hell is more than a DOOM clone, combining the infernal energy of the classic shooter and turn-based roguelike gameplay.
The Steam Deck has been freshly announced and it has quickly been compared to the Switch. But what do you think the average consumer thinks?
Footage surfaces for the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters so let’s ask how these latest re-releases measure up against the visuals of the past.
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?
The Teal Time Mage finishes his online classes at Yavin IV with his review of Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy!
Is this curious indie Metroidvania a straight-A student or does it deserve to be expelled from memory? Find out in our Dead or School review.
Part 1 of “Intergalactic January” with the very first entry in one of the greatest RPG series of all time: Mass Effect!
Come on-a my house, my house. I’m gonna give you everything. -Rosemary Clooney …
Ghosts are all around us. Look for them, and you will find them. -Ruskin Bond…
Dogs kind of default to making friends unless provoked. Cats seem to default to making enemies unless convinced otherwise.
-Perry Elisabeth Kirkpatrick
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.
Running an item shop is harder than most games would have you believe, especially when you’re a young girl with no business experience. In this review, The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage takes a look at what we can learn from this sweet animesque business sim about friendship, adventure, and hardcore capitalism.
If Katamari is an ice cream sundae with all the fixings, Donut County is a scoop of vanilla frozen yogurt with some multicolored sprinkles.
Where modernism was about objectivity, postmodernism was about subjectivity. Where modernism sought a single truth, postmodernism sought the multiplicity of truths.
-Miguel Syjuco
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.
It is time to ask ourselves: is game quality improving? I approach this question through the lens of averages and total releases across platforms.
The Sometimes Vaguely Philosophical Mage does his best to get to grips with Cultist Simulator, but gazing too long upon the Old Ones has been known to cause loosened grips…
The cycle of crafting and exploration remains unbroken but is there more to Smoke and Sacrifice than the Loop?
I like living in my head because in there, everyone is kind and innocent. Once you start integrating yourself into the world, you realize that people are nasty, mean creatures. They’re worse than zombies. People try to crush your soul and destroy your happiness, but zombies just want to have a little nibble of your brain.
-J.Cornell Michel, Jordan’s Brains: A Zombie Evolution
Pensive and unhurried, The Fall takes its time exploring its themes as you explore its darkest labyrinths.
One night I had a frightful dream in which I met my grandmother under the sea. She lived in a phosphorescent palace of many terraces, with gardens of strange leprous corals and grotesque brachiate efflorescences, and welcomed me with a warmth that may have been sardonic. She had changed – as those who take to the water change – and told me she had never died. Instead, she had gone to a spot her dead son had learned about, and had leaped to a realm whose wonders – destined for him as well – he had spurned with a smoking pistol. This was to be my realm, too – I could not escape it. I would never die, but would live with those who had lived since before man ever walked the earth.
-H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow Over Innsmouth
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
“Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us;…
