Review by Harvard L. Supermassive Games has a house style which is immediately recognisable and comfortably niche. The team makes slasher games: just like a slasher film, but with quick-time-events and moral choices which determine who lives and who dies. After the runaway success of Until Dawn, Supermassive set up…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. Playing Destroy All Humans! for the first time in 2020 is an… odd experience. This is a remake of a game that first came out in 2005, created as a parody of Cold War-era science fiction B movies, yet its satire feels as relevant and pointed…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. I know I keep saying this to anyone who’ll listen, but the Trails of Cold Steel games from Nihon Falcom are brilliant. Even among JRPGs, few games manage the intricate characterisation or deep world-building that Cold Steel delivers effortlessly, let alone both at the same time.…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. As soon as you describe a Kickstarter project as a spiritual successor to something beloved, you set the expectations through the roof—not least of all when the original creator comes out of the shadows to take the helm. Even if the end result is something that’s…
Read MoreReview by James T. Before stepping into the world of Super Cane Magic Zero: Legend of the Cane Cane (nothing quite like a snappy title that rolls off the tongue), I quickly take stock of my inventory to ensure I’m ready for the perils that lie ahead of me. I’m…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. For better or for worse, WWE 2K19 is exactly what I expected it to be. The overall gameplay has not changed all that much from last year’s iteration, but the continued additions and improvements do make the experience more entertaining anyway. So the core gameplay remains…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. As a child, I spent more time than was healthy being utterly enthralled by the old Dungeons & Dragons PC titles. From Eye of the Beholder and Wake of the Ravager, through to Strahd’s Possession and, later, Baldur’s Gate, I would play and replay these games,…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. I came very close to writing off Death’s Gambit entirely early on in my time with it. After a surprisingly easy introductory level and a boss that I killed on the first go — something unexpected from a game that draws so clearly from Dark Souls…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. With any game that releases on an annual basis, one has to question whether or not that release even needs to happen. Sports titles get something of a pass, not because they substantially change from year to year, but because of the cyclical nature of sports…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Do you remember SEGA Soccer Slam from back in 2002? What a game that was. Taking the sport of football (or soccer, or whatever you call it in your part of the world), it was an all-arcade, no-rules, 3-on-3 sports game that was about the big…
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