For some time, Konami has followed the trend with its Castlevania series, working with developers to apply other popular formulas to the whip-and-vampire action. And in a way that has been the case for decades. The entire reason we use the “Metroidvania” label is that, in that particular instance, Konami…
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Time really does fly. If you had asked me when Earth Defence Force 5 was released, I would have told you “a few years ago”. It was actually released eight years ago. Eight years! It’s a testament to the quality of the game that I still so keenly remember it,…
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Viractal: Will You Trust Your Party? Has been kicking around in obscurity on Steam for some time. Thankfully, the developer/publisher, Steam, decided to dust it off for a second shot on console. I think it’ll have a better shot on Switch. Especially since the Square Enix Voice of Cards series…
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I got started with Koei Tecmo’s Musou (Warriors) series later than many of the other long-term fans. Samurai Warriors 3 on the Wii was my first title, and after putting hundreds of hours into that game, I went looking for other Warriors titles. My first Dynasty Warriors title was 6,…
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The smartest decision they made in Silent Hill: Townfall was to have it play out in first person, something that the series doesn’t typically do. But a first-person perspective makes the horror more immediate, direct and, ultimately, intense. Townfall is downright visceral in its horror atmosphere trappings, which is just…
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Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve offers 30-odd missions of explosive aerial acrobatics that you won’t soon forget about. Bandai Namco has, over so many years and titles now, achieved something really rare for this particular genre: action that doesn’t feel like it’s condescending towards the players with overly simplistic…
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Monster Couch developed the digital adaptation of Wingspan, a game that I’ve spent more than 1000 hours playing at this point. So I was naturally interested in seeing what the team could do with Flamecraft, another digital board game adaptation and remarkably similar to Wingspan in that it’s a relatively…
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I don’t think Akiba Lost is the best name the development team could have come up with here. It’s accurate, in that it’s a game about people who got lost in Akihabara (pet name “Akiba”), but given the presence of Akiba’s Trip, this game is just asking for players to…
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I’ve given open world survival games a red-hot go in the past. I’ve played Funcom’s own previous effort in the genre, Conan Exiles, and gave it every chance to impress me. I’ve yet to find one that has left me with an impression other than that this is just a…
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True story: It was just the other day that I saw the entire Where’s Wally (I know it’s called “Where’s Waldo” elsewhere, but it’s Wally here) collection on sale. They must have done a reprint. I bought the lot of them. I have fond memories of spending hour upon hour…
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