Review by Matt S. City builders – or similarly-themed “builder” simulators – are a favourite genre of mine, but only when a developer gets them right. Entries into this genre feature a great deal of number crunching, and require that players have a good nose for design, balancing, statistics, and…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. The original Cat Quest was a game often described as “comfort food”. Its simple combination of grind-reliant action-RPG gameplay and an overload of cat puns made it adept at giving players small, frequent rewards. I distinctly remember being strung along through the colourful open world, helping…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Last week, Sony released a Tim Burton/Danny Elfman-style game for Halloween-themed family fun. The remake of MediEvil was showing the age in the way it played, being a straight-up remake of the PlayStation One original, but it deserved full marks for nailing the aesthetic and tone…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I’ve got to say this upfront; Atelier Ryza is a truly delightful game and the developer, Gust, is clearly keen to find new ways to mature the series. It has achieved that, and that’s admirable. But it’s also the Atelier title that has come the closest…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Why? That is the big question I took away from my time playing PBA Pro Bowling. Why bother getting an official license for a ten-pin bowling game? I love bowling as much as the next person, and regularly go out to bowl, drink, or (preferably) do…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I first visited Japan around 11 years ago, and one of the things I remember most vividly from the trip was going along to an art exhibition for interactive and electronic art. I remember because it was being held in one of Tokyo’s most prestigious galleries…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. What a sweet little JRPG Tick-Tock Travelers is. It runs at about 20 hours in length, it has a difficulty level that’s pitched for the young, a charm that will appeal to the young at heart, and it offers a nice little riff on the the…
Read MoreReview by Trent P. The relationship Felix The Reaper has with music and with dance is the kind of feeling you get at a wedding (that is not your own). That bubbly free flowing love music that permeates the entire music selection. However it also feels like it comes from…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. One of the bits of news that flew a little under the radar, among everything else that Gust and Koei Tecmo is doing at the moment, was that we’d be getting a package of all three Dusk games on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and PC. Gust…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Raging Loop is a fascinating little game. It’s cheaply made, and its very limited production values do prevent the game from ever getting the dark horror atmosphere that the narrative deserves, but after an adjustment period you’ll put all that to the side, because what matters…
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