Review by Matt S. Oh, bugger off, Nightdive Studios. Turok 2 was originally released back in 1998. You cannot possibly tell me that here, in 2019, with all the power that modern consoles allow, you have to actually strip major features out of the remaster of a title from 1998.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. With Saya no Uta – The Song of Saya in English – now available over Steam, I’ve got an excuse to review what is quite an old game. And write about it. There’s so much I can write about. In terms of narrative technique, the way…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. The Church in the Darkness stars you as Vic, the sibling of a member of the Collective Justice Mission cult. In a revisionist 1970’s, the cult’s enigmatic leaders took exception to America’s policies and relocated all its members to an agrarian compound in South America. As…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There are two ways to look at Plague Inc.: Either it’s a simple, easy-playing, casual RTS, or it’s a truly terrifying game that has ominous implications for the real world. Or perhaps those aren’t mutually exclusive things. Regardless on how you look at it, Plague Inc.…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. It’s important that we draw a distinction between “melancholia” and “sadness”, “misery”, and other such synonyms. The dictionary definition has the terms at roughly parallel, but in literature and other art forms, they’re really very different things. My favourite quote in defining melancholia comes from an…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. After PQube games pulled the initial effort to localise Omega Labyrinth, we all thought this series was done for in the west. Having run afoul of Sony due to its rather outrageous fan service, the game and its “censorship” certainly drew opinions and debate. Thankfully all…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. In an alternate timeline, the Vice President of the United States orchestrates a military coup d’état on the sitting President, imposing martial law and flooding the country with pro-coup propaganda. In an act of political brilliance, the President boards a giant mech and starts blowing things…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. While virtually everyone who has an interest in tactics JRPGs is still knee-deep in Fire Emblem, there was another tactics RPG that has been released over the last week that’s well worth a look. Forged of Blood comes to us from an Indonesian independent team, and…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Nothing beats a good board game. When the mechanics are uncomplicated, and the setting and design excite the imagination, then a board game is endlessly replayable and the perfect way to spend a lazy Sunday. Video games can make it even more convenient, by removing the…
Read MoreReview by Nick H. There are a handful of interesting new features to Madden NFL 20 that make it stand out from the year-after-year release cycle in recent years. The biggest of these, the Superstar X-Factor, actually adds a really interesting new dynamic to the game that should give even…
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