Any long term fan of JRPGs will attest to something along the lines of a ten-percent rule, which states that the first ten percent of any JRPG will also be its worst segment. It makes perfect sense, since the genre is all about building up your characters and you can’t…
Read MoreThe Total War series has always been known for mixing accessibility and A-grade production values with a surprisingly deep level of strategy. These games might not quite reach the strategic standard of a title like Europa Universalis, but while is not hard to pick one of these titles up and…
Read MoreSunset is an upcoming title from indie developer Tale of Tales. I was given a spoiler-free access to a ten minute preview of the game, which allowed me to experience three separate in-game days of the final product. The full release is not long away now (March), and I cannot…
Read MoreHarold, the character, is not what you would consider a winner in life. He is a goofy, clumsy and somewhat dim fellow that has decided to participate in races. The problem is that every one of Harold’s opponents is far more capable than him. Harold, the game, is a winner,…
Read MoreHad someone told me Lords of Xulima is a remake of a forgotten SNES game, and I didn’t know better, I would have believed them. Similarities to the more gorgeous titles of the 16 and 32 bit era are unmistakable – even though this game runs in the same vein…
Read MoreWhen Grow Home was announced, the developers told us that it was drawing inspiration from Wall-E and The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Having played it now, I would suggest the official line throw in a third inspiration; Jack and the Beanstalk. Originally an internal Ubisoft project designed to test…
Read MoreCitizens of Earth is a turn-based RPG that is heavily inspired by Earthbound and has a hint of Suikoden hidden within it. Your character is the Vice President of the World, and your goal is to recruit citizens who will help you solve strange happenings that are occurring across the…
Read MoreMeet Joe Wheeler – businessman, cynic, and survivor of the zombie apocalypse. Emerging from his disaster-proof bunker a year after a virus has zombified most of the world’s population, he sets off to gather survivors and try to make life sustainable in the chaos which remains. A top-down open world…
Read MoreWhy developers still insist on locking away harder difficulty levels is beyond me. Here we have a novel 2D beat ’em up that oozes style through and through, but its flashiness is soon overshadowed when all the player does is near-mindlessly tap away at the same two or three buttons.…
Read MoreWar: The Game is a new global-scale wargame that is being pitched as a budget-priced multiplayer game of grand scale. Because it looks a little basic in static screenshots, we’ve decided to instead do a video review of this one. Rob delves into the way the game is balanced, the…
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