Review by Matt S. I’m a firm believer that video games should only be as long as they need to be to convey their key themes and experience to the player. If a game’s narrative is only worth an hour’s play, then make it an hour-long game. That’s preferable to…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. When you think that The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters was created by a team of just four people, it’s impressive. The art and general vision of the game is refined to the highest degree, and the way that it reflects on social tensions within Korea, ranging…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Finally, the Nintendo Switch has a simulator of a reasonably high production standard and is also enjoyable to play on the console. Finally. There have been a number of very good smaller simulators by indies (Project Highrise, for example), but the one really big fish effort…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Competition around the “retro compilation” space has become surprisingly fierce. It’s no longer enough to simply drop emulations of a handful of random arcade titles from the backlog and call it a day. As the likes of Capcom, Konami and SNK have shown, players are really…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I started playing Desperados III without having done too much research ahead of time. I know about the series itself, of course, but the last one of those was back in 2007, and it was produced by the now-defunct Spellbound Entertainment. That’s a long time ago…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Having originally released in early 2016, XCOM 2 has seen several ports and additions over the years. Compiling all of that into one neat package, fans can now take it with them whenever they go on the Nintendo Switch. This includes XCOM 2: War of the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Why do I keep doing this to myself? Kairosoft has released TWENTY-SIX of its light simulation games on to Nintendo Switch now. I own at least half of them. Every time I get hooked deep into the simple, charming presentation and super-accessible, comfortable gameplay loops of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Note: There will be spoilers below. The PC release of Persona 4 Golden might be new, but this is a 12-year-old game at this point and I’ll be damned if I tiptoe around the game’s narrative for people that haven’t played the game yet. Related reading:…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The Last of Us Part II is a difficult game to review. That’s not to say that there isn’t anything worth talking about in it, because there is a lot, but rather the difficulty comes from an extended list of embargo conditions that make it impossible…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. I love how far the gaming medium has come in such a short amount of time. BioShock, BioShock 2 and BioShock Infinite are, amazingly, retro games now. And maybe that’s more a statement about how quickly time has passed rather than how robust the ideas within…
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