Review by Matt S. A Plague Tale: Innocence is a game of two parts. One is its narrative, and Innocence tells an absolutely cracking narrative. In it, 14 year-old Amicia and her little brother struggle to survive the perfect storm of the Black Death, the Inquisition, and the Hundred Years…
Read MoreReview by Matt C. “Aggelos is the perfect combination of retro style and modern-day game design.” That bold claim is one of the main lines used in the marketing of Aggelos, but it’s one the game doesn’t entirely live up to. It’s got the “retro style” thing down pat—it perfectly…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The tactics RPG is a badly under-represented one. Despite the enduring success of Fire Emblem, the historic popularity of Final Fantasy Tactics, the critical plaudits directed at The Banner Saga, and the genre hits like God Wars and Disgaea, there’s something about the genre that seems…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There’s a good idea buried deep within Fade to Silence. Blending the survival genre with a frigid, hostile, perpetual winter setting, and the eldritch nightmares of Lovecraft, could have turned into something quite special. Unfortunately, the game’s a failure on just about every level. Firstly, the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. World Conqueror X, released last year on the Nintendo Switch, was an enjoyable port of one of the better tactical strategy games available on mobile. While it didn’t offer the 4X trappings of Civilization, nor was is a serious simulation of the wars of the era…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. The remake of Shadowgate was first released on PC back in 2014. Despite being a massive fan of the original Shadowgate (I consider the Game Boy Color version of that to be one of my favourite games on that console), I hadn’t really looked at the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I like games with fan service and risque humour. I like my anime tropey games. Our World Is Ended contains copious amounts of both, and on a certain level I do derive some entertainment from that. The game is indeed often amusing. Unfortunately, a lot of…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. I bought Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection – a compilation of some of Konami’s classic arcade releases (circa 1981 though 1988) for one game alone: Haunted Castle. The arcade take on Castlevania is brutal, brilliant, and an absolute masterpiece of classic arcade platforming action. Sadly, as good…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. VA-11 HALL-A has been kicking around for a fair few years now, but for one reason or another I have never actually played it before. Finally, after a number of people have been badgering me to finally move it off the backlist, the Nintendo Switch release…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Following on from Voez, and later Deemo, we finally have Cytus on our Nintendo Switches, and therefore all three rhythm game franchises from Taiwanese developer, Rayark. This is a supremely talented team of rhythm game developers, and with over 200 songs on Cytus Alpha, they have…
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