Review by Matt S. “Curiouser and curiouser!” Cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English). So goes the famous line from Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice in Wonderland. Having played Märchen Forest: Mylne and the Forest Gift, I understand Alice’s…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L.I really like Olija. It’s a smartly-designed cinematic platformer with a retro rotoscope-sprite art style, engaging gameplay and an incredible sense of atmosphere. It’s designed by Thomas Olsson, the one-man behind the aptly named Skeleton Crew Studio, and it comes after a long development cycle filled with…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. One of the great risks with any anime tie-in game is whether it’s going to make sense to people who aren’t existing fans of the property. In many cases, licensed games track along with the early stages of the anime and therefore works well as an…
Read MoreVideo by Matt S. Nintendo’s first big release of the year is a port of Super Mario 3D World… with Bowser’s Fury – an all-new mini-adventure that’s a real value-add for anyone who played the Wii U original. The game’s still a while away from release, but I had the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Japanese game developer and publisher, Voltage, is certainly prolific. Since 2011 the otome specialist has published multiple titles per year, and as many as 11(!) in one particular year (2014). Her Love In The Force is one of those 2014 titles, which has been localised and…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Neoverse is a highly enjoyable digital card game, but it also represents the worst of video games as an art form. This is not to say that it’s weighed down with microtransactions and similarly scummy revenue models, because it’s mercifully free of those. It’s just that…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The kind of experience that Dungeon Nightmares 1 & 2 champion is the kind of thing that goes down really well with YouTube and Twitch. Do a search for either title and you’ll see a wall of “OH! LOOK HOW SCARY IT IS!” and “SCARIEST GAME…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. People like to tease the sport of curling, and it’s such an abstract little game that the response to it is understandable. It’s like lawn bowls, on ice, where two of the athletes use brooms to “sweep” the ice for reasons that aren’t immediately apparent. Of…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. How often do we get a game that’s based on opera themes? Not often. How often do those games have talent of the calibre of Tokyo Ghoul’s creator onboard? Even less so. Jack Jeanne is one of those rare events, and it looks absolutely stunning. It’s…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Wow is Red Colony a red hot mess. About the only thing that saves it is that it is so unpolished that it’s difficult to determine if its nastier edges were intended or simply because the developer that didn’t have a firm grasp on what they…
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