Video by Matt S. Mary Skelter Finale is the third and final chapter of one of the most fanservicey dungeon crawler JRPGs of all. This one is so fanservicey it was banned in Australia. So naturally, I’ve played it. Here are my top-line thoughts on the game (no spoilers, promise!…
Read MorePreview by Harvard L. Inscryption is a new horror-themed card game that just had a demo land. In this little Let’s Play, Harvard walks you through how the game plays and what to expect from it. Needless to say, we’re keen! This could be quite the sleeper hit when it…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Over the last couple of weeks there has been an ongoing discussion regarding one upcoming PlayStation 5 game. Project Eve, it’s called, and it goes pretty heavy on the fan service. There has been some criticism on this, but one of the more interesting pieces…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. This is a bit of a think-piece video. Basically, the prevailing idea is that video games can’t be bad. They’re products, and if a game doesn’t turn out the way fans want it to, then the developer should be obliged to “fix” it somehow. The thing…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Olympia Soirée is the latest visual novel from Otomate to be released on consoles in the west. And it is an incredible, beautiful game. What’s amazing is that after years (and over 100 releases), Otomate remains one of the very finest purveyors of visual novels. Just…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. We do like a good game with dice, and Dice Legacy certainly did catch our attention for its dice. It’s a very dice-filled game. Harvard gives the game a full spin on Nintendo Switch ahead of his review later in the week. Be sure to keep…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Tales of Arise is absolutely spectacular, but one of the most interesting things about it is that, for a series that is usually considered “gameplay first, narrative second,” this one has an absolutely incredible and thought-provoking narrative. So, in this video, I discuss one of the…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. There’s an insidious little myth out there that suggests that “gamers” want what the AAA industry churns out. It’s used to justify just about everything the AAA industry does. If it were true there wouldn’t be so many examples of games selling multiple millions of copies…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Kitaria Fables is such a delightful little game. Utterly charming and inoffensive, this Rune Factory-like RPG has plenty of sword-swinging questing… but you also get plenty of time to kick back and just enjoy the gardening, as you slowly farm up a huge arrangement of delightful…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. I’ve been playing a lot of PlayStation 2 recently, and reminding myself of just how many great games we’ve lost. The PS2 was an era of experimentation, ideas and, more than anything else, art over monetisation. I hadn’t really played the body of PS2 games since…
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