Review by Ginny W. The Warhammer formula is named the way that it is for a reason. It’s at its strongest when exploring how war is the endless meat grinder that spans dimensions and factions, whether that’s in the ridiculously intricate lore that has developed around the franchise for years,…
Read MoreReview by Harvard L. CastleStorm must have a reputation by now as Zen Studios’ “other” game – the Zen Pinball series had cemented the Hungarian development studio as the reigning champion of digital pinball, so much so that the company’s bite-sized RTS often falls by the wayside. While Zen Pinball…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Just the other day in a review of Victor Vran’s recent Nintendo Switch release, I mentioned that it’s hard for a “Diablo clone” to step out of the shadows of Diablo. The game named the genre for a reason. Even the better efforts tend to stick…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. There’s no development house out there that quite understands the fairy tale aesthetic like Nippon Ichi does. Its habit of playing up the darker side of the Grimm Brothers aesthetic, with a healthy dose of anime exaggeration, was what made earlier efforts like Witch and the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. One of the problems that “Diablo clones” face is that their genre is named for competition that’s almost impossible to beat. Diablo has barely missed a step since its original release, so many years ago now, and with Diablo 3 going from strength to strength, it…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. After the Valkyria Revolution experiment proved to be a disaster with series fans, being far too experimental and different from its predecessors, I’m not surprised that Valkyria Chronicles 4 veered so far back to the series genesis that there were times I could have easily confused…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Wow does Athena look good in a bikini. I mean, there’s other good stuff in SNK Heroines, but let’s just cut right to the chase here. I was always going to love this game. Related reading: Also released recently is Blade Strangers, the cross-over fighter. Matt’s…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. As a child, I spent more time than was healthy being utterly enthralled by the old Dungeons & Dragons PC titles. From Eye of the Beholder and Wake of the Ravager, through to Strahd’s Possession and, later, Baldur’s Gate, I would play and replay these games,…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Knowing that most people only read the first and last paragraphs, and then look at the score, I want to get this out of the way regarding Spider-Man upfront; Spider-Man is a lot of fun. A lot of fun. The combat feels great, as does web-slinging…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Hyakki Castle is one of my favourite dungeon crawlers in recent years. It plays much like a modern western dungeon crawler (think Legend of Grimrock rather than Wizardry), but has an unmistakably Japanese aesthetic, theme, and tone. It’s an eclectic blend, to be sure, but it…
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