Review by Matt S. It was easy to look at the original Toukiden and dismiss it as a clone of Monster Hunter. Easy, but inaccurate. Toukiden took some of the ideas that drove Monster Hunter, yes. It featured protracted battles with very large monsters, loot grinding to improve your character’s…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. We live in a world where very serious questions are being asked of western interventionism and imperialism, colonialist attitudes, and the nationalism of western powers. With ISIS and Syria, we’re finally starting to realise that over a century of meddling, king making, and warring in places…
Read MoreReview by Brad L.It’s no secret that the Legend of Zelda is my favourite game series of all time. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is my personal favourite Zelda game and the game I consider to be the best of all time. Despite this love that…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. At first glance, Phoning Home promises a sweet story and a vast, unusual landscape. However, the promised scope of the game combined with several familiar narrative, visual, and gameplay elements were cause for concern before even beginning. Can an indie developer successfully create a game experience…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Horizon: Zero Dawn reflects all the strengths of Guerrilla Games as a developer, but also its limitations. It’s a game that offers a grand vision, compelling ideology, and technical brilliance, but it’s also one that can’t quite shake a certain blandness, as it’s let down by…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There were a couple of standout features with regards to the original Gravity Rush: 1) It had the most wonderfully gorgeous protagonist in Kat. 2) For all the focus that people had on its gameplay gimmick (the ability to manipulate gravity), it was also a highly…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I was already sold on virtual reality, so it would be unfair to say Eagle Flight sold me on the technology. Perhaps it would be more reasonable to say that Eagle Flight has really been the first game that showed the full power of VR. As…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. The original Watch Dogs had all sorts of potential, but it too often seemed to miss the mark both in style and substance. It was a game that I enjoyed in the moment but it’s also one that I’ve never come back to; the longevity just…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. With each copy of 2K and the development group behind Mafia 3 comes a pristine recreation of 1968 New Orleans. This is a city at a crossroads between the Civil Rights movement and the remnants of the Confederate Deep South; a city reverberating with freeform jazz,…
Read MorePreview by Harvard L. I don’t know if the opening of Final Fantasy XV is a tongue-in-cheek joke or not, but I really want to believe that it is. Our first impression of Noctis is an insufferable sarcastic teenager making jabs at his father, the king, letting the audience know…
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