Ruku’s Heart Balloon is right up there with the sweetest games I’ve ever played. The developers set out to make something treacle-sweet, to the point where prolonged exposure to it may well sicken you, and they succeeded. I just wasn’t able to play it for long before desperately needing to…
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Rabbits are the best pets. They’re fluffy and funny and it’s only when you have them as pets that you realise they’ve got big personalities that fill the home with their energy. We don’t get anywhere near enough games that make rabbits the focus, and many of those that do…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. As a rabbit owner, I’ve felt consistently aggrieved by the obsession game developers have with the endless pet the dog memes. I get that they’re “man’s best friend” or whatever, but you got yours over and over and over again. Where’s the love for the bunnehs?…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’ll level with you: this is going to be a really short review because, as much as I do believe that video games are a creative work and deserve the full respect of my time and effort in a review situation (whether they’re great or otherwise),…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Ever play a game that you know isn’t all that great, but for reasons you’re not even certain of, you love it anyway? That’s my experience with the Farm Frenzy series. I’ve enjoyed these things from way back on the PlayStation Portable (where they were PSP…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. In the two hours that it takes to complete Sumire, you will be reduced to a blubbering mess. Over, and over, and over again. For a game that has a profoundly potent message of hope sitting at its core, there’s also an emotional intensity in getting…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The best way to think of Miitopia is as a silly little playground, and that it’s a very personal playground. The experience that you’re having with it is only ever going to make sense to you. A friend or family member, should they walk into the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I have been waiting 22 years for a new Pokémon Snap. That Nintendo 64 original was a brilliant example of pure, unadulterated, quality game design, and it’s crazy that Nintendo has gone through multiple generations of consoles that are absolutely perfect for games based around photography…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Among all entertainment art forms, video games rely heavily on violence and bloodletting. I realise that as a game critic I spend more time with these things than most people (and what is healthy for a “hobby”), but it really does become exhausting when the default…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Harvest Moon: One World is going to be trounced by Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town when the latter releases at the end of the month. It’s a pity it will be, because while it’s not of the same standard One World is, in its own…
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