Review by Brad L. It is hard to believe that the original Guacamelee! came out five years ago. The amazing 2D platformer that took inspiration from things as wide-ranging as Mexican culture and the Metroid series is still one of the best finest games in the past decade. Thankfully, Guacamelee!…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. R.A Salvatore, the author of the Dungeons & Dragons Drizzt Do’Urden novels, is not one of the great philosophers of all time, but his books always have a bit of philosophical reflection in them to open each chapter. His reflections on nostalgia, found in one of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. We Happy Few is a little like No Man’s Sky. I don’t mean in terms of the kind of game it is, of course, but it seems to have become another example of something that failed to deliver what players expected, and that failure has become…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I love XCOM. I love James Bond. I love Phantom Doctrine. It’s simplifying things a touch to say that Phantom Doctrine is the blend of XCOM and James Bond, but it’s a close enough description to what’s on offer. In this game you take over a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Tetra’s Escape isn’t inspiring. It looks like a student coding project, if that student forgot to get an artist to replace the stand-in graphics that they used while building the game. One of the main selling points of the game is that it’s an easy platinum…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s weird to think that train driving could make for an interesting video game experience. It’s a job. A stock standard do-it-for-a-career job that just about everyone could do in the real world were they so inclined. There’s no substantial level of danger or excitement about…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. Capcom was never going to be content releasing just one collection of Mega Man X games; And so here we have a review of the second “collection,” which contains the second half of Mega Man X Legacy; X5 through to X8. For the most part, these…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. Hot on the heels of the excellent Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, Capcom has seen fit to provide the world with even more nostalgia by releasing not one, but two Legacy Collections for the Mega Man X series. Not to be confused with the other two…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. All-Star Fruit Racing is a clever parody, first and foremost. When you’re entering a genre (the kart racer) where you know that you’re going to be instantly compared to something of the sheer prominence of Mario Kart, you surely know that any license that you might…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Realms of Arkania: Star Trail is two things; firstly, it’s a really fine RPG in its own right, hearkening back to the very most traditional ideals of the genre. This is a game for people who fondly remember the first and second editions of Dungeons &…
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