I will hold to my dying day that there’s more to the appeal of Godzilla than “see the big Kaiju crush things”. Toho’s most famous movie star has appeared in features that covered everything from the horrors of nuclear war to pollution, government incompetence to concepts of post-war honour and…
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The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is almost universally accepted as being one of the great masterpieces of the video game medium. Many list it as the greatest game of all time. The Nintendo 64 original still ranks as #1 on Metacritic’s greatest games of all time list, with…
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There are several grand ideas that Silicon Valley has championed as the holy grail of technology innovation. Self-aware AI and the ability to colonise space are two of the most well-known examples that tend to occupy the headlines. But another one is the idea of immortality, granted by being able…
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The Cotton series started life in an era where bullet hell wasn’t even really a thing, because back in 1991, even the state-of-the-art arcade technology could only throw so many pixels around. Since that date, there’s been a number of Cotton-related titles, including 2021’s Cotton Reboot, which took that original…
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Well, fellow Final Fantasy fans, here’s our chance. For years now we’ve been begging Square Enix for a new 2D, pixel-based Final Fantasy. Final Fantasy Resonance isn’t Final Fantasy XVII, but after the success of the Octopath Traveler series and Dragon Quest remakes, it’s pretty clearly an effort by the…
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A persistent issue I have with video game adaptations of stories from other mediums is that the developers might latch on to the characters and setting of the base material, but almost inevitably the game lacks any understanding of the themes and depth of meaning that made the original work…
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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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