Xenoblade Chronicles on the Nintendo Wii (and, later, New Nintendo 3DS), is a sprawling game with ambition well beyond what anyone thought the console could handle. At the same time, despite the game’s openness, its love of sending players on fetch quests, and the near endless incentive to keep backtracking…
Read MoreIt is difficult for me to play the Yakuza games. Not because I don’t like them – quite the opposite – but rather because, every time I do play one of the Yakuza titles, I wind up feeling very homesick for Japan. Related reading: Why Don’t You Play In Hell,…
Read MoreThere are a ridiculous number of things to see and do in Fallout 4, and while the game doesn’t represent the same leap forward that two to three was for the series, the adventure is still absolutely worth your while. Dozens of hours can easily be lost in exploration as…
Read MoreCharles Dickens’ parents, John and Elizabeth Dickens, were fans of the social life; they loved to attend dinners, perform a 19th Century prototype of the now-infamous Stanky Leg at parties, and mix pleasantries with mustache taming advice at family functions. The monetary cost of this lifestyle, combined with the absurd…
Read MoreElite: Dangerous is a mixed bag of great ideas but sometimes rough execution. But given that the end result is a technical, involving simulation game that provides almost limitless options and a genuine sandbox to explore around it, most people should be willing to forgive its more grating elements. The…
Read More“Auteur” is a word that I would argue is thrown around too much when it comes to video games. The theory behind it comes from film criticism, with the notion that a film is the director’s vision and solely their vision. When it comes to video games, though, it’s typically…
Read MoreFans of free roaming games with lots to do will no doubt come away pleased by what Mad Max has to offer. It is a brutal world that you’ll be thrust into which is just interesting enough to help you to forget that we have seen most of what Mad…
Read MoreAfter scoring with a local geisha by complimenting the weather and suggesting she looks rather elegant in her clothes, I went to the magistrate’s office where a Pagan Min look-alike British delegate ordered me to take out a dozen of rogue warriors who take their swords to random passersby to…
Read MoreI was driving around aimlessly in a stolen black Vapid Bullet, when I collided against a white Benefactor Panto (which had appeared out of nowhere). My car hit a pole and stalled. When I stepped out of my vehicle to inspect the damage, I found out to my horror that…
Read MoreSaints Row started off as a different take on the open world Grand Theft Auto formula. Since then, the series has become progressively more oddball to the point where Saints Row IV felt more like a crazy superhero adventure than open world crime simulator. Saints Row: Gat Out Of Hell…
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