Review by Harvard L. If Darksiders on its original release was intended to be an entirely straight-faced rendition of the biblical apocalypse, I still can’t help but feel like it’s a tongue-in-cheek joke in 2019. The game’s grimdark setting takes a walk on the absurd side – with hulking stone…
Read MoreVideo by Harvard L. Darksiders isn’t that old, but it comes from a very different time in game development. In this video, we look at how games looked and played back then, and why Darksiders is a classic of that era that everyone should experience. It comes from a time…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Do you remember Ogre Battle? Probably not. Back before it was absorbed into the mega-beast that is today’s Square Enix, a humble little company called Quest produced two Ogre Battle titles, one for the Super Nintendo, and one for the Nintendo 64. These games were a…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I don’t understand how you could be anything but delighted by Yoshi’s Crafted World. Yes, it’s not challenging (play the upcoming Cuphead for that), nor is it especially deep. That’s because Nintendo made this one so that everyone, of all ages, can enjoy it. You’d need…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. To celebrate 25 years of Atelier, the teams at Gust and Koei Tecmo decided to do something very different with Nelke & the Legendary Alchemists, and eschew the series traditional JRPG structure and design for a light-hearted city building simulation instead. Talk about a dramatic change!…
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With all due respect to the PlayStation Vita (and as everyone who knows me knows, I have a lot of respect for the PlayStation Vita), when it came to rendering “realistic” people, the console hit its limits. When it came to abstract visuals, such as games like Oreshika, the PlayStation…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Ninja Village is a Kairosoft game, and if you don’t know what that means, then you haven’t played a Kairosoft game before. The developer, which previously stuck to the mobile platform like glue, has recently hit the Nintendo Switch with a flood of ports, and has…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. You’d never know this today, but I used to be a big fan of the FPS. Back when the genre represented the finest transgressive energy in the games industry, and when the limited hardware on offer meant that developers aimed for the fantastic and abstract, rather…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Idea Factory is at its fanservicey best with Moero Chronicle, a pretty good dungeon crawler with even better… assets. Previously exclusive to the PC in the west (there is also a PlayStation Vita version, but never released outside of Asia), now it’s got a release date…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. You could call Rico a kind of reverse Payday; where Payday was a co-operative shooter that let you play as the robbers, Rico is a shooter that encourages co-op play and lets you play as the cops. It’s nowhere near as well made as Payday and…
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