Review by Matt S. Wizardry is the elder dungeon crawler. The first one, developed by Sir-Tech, came out way back in 1981. It’s older than I am, and there aren’t many properties that are still around and in active development that can claim that.. For context: Final Fantasy 1 was…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. With a series as long running as Mobile Suit Gundam (which started back in 1979), you’re going to get a lot of fan favorites, agreements and disagreements. Acting as probably one of the most extensive bits of fan service to the long running series that I’ve…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I could feel that something like Darksiders Genesis was coming. Though the first two Darksiders titles were impressive games, they were also beholden to a kind of design that was never going to stick around. Darksiders 3, which I generally enjoyed, nonetheless showed just how difficult…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I have one issue with Transport Fever 2, which I’m going to throw into the introduction, so I can then talk about everything that I love about this game: unlike most other transport business simulators there are no rivals, AI or player. In Transport Fever 2…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. I wonder how long it will be before “tycoon games” start to instead be known as “planet games”. That certainly seems to be the goal of Frontier Developments — after a very successful spiritual successor to RollerCoaster Tycoon in 2016’s Planet Coaster, the studio has now…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I think we’ve hit the point where we can call the Corpse Party series a massive missed opportunity. What has been created within it has been great, true Japanese horror, but as time has worn on, the poor management of the property thanks to its dōjin…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. With Saya no Uta – The Song of Saya in English – now available over Steam, I’ve got an excuse to review what is quite an old game. And write about it. There’s so much I can write about. In terms of narrative technique, the way…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. While virtually everyone who has an interest in tactics JRPGs is still knee-deep in Fire Emblem, there was another tactics RPG that has been released over the last week that’s well worth a look. Forged of Blood comes to us from an Indonesian independent team, and…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. By now, there’s a certain comfortable rhythm to Final Fantasy XIV’s expansions. You know what to expect: a new arc of the game’s ever-expanding story, six new zones, a couple of new jobs, a new dungeon every other level and two more “expert” ones at the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Of just all the video games that you could set out to make, the 4X must surely be the most complex. The typical 4X might not have the technical fidelity of a AAA-blockbuster, but the sheer amount of data that it needs to crunch, across military,…
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