Review by Harvard L. I don’t want to be too hard on Black Painted Games – it’s a four-person team from Ukraine with a love of cats that decided to push a pulpy science-horror sidescroller out into the world: there’s something so lovely and earnest about that. The game in…
Read MoreReview by Lindsay M. It’s quiet in outer space. Deafeningly so. But inside space stations, all becomes bustling again. The whir of machines. Voices traveling down hallways. Doors opening and closing. Beeping computers. Cutlery clanking. So when you enter a large research station to only the sound of the engines,…
Read MoreReview by Ginny W. Violence in video games is a hot button topic nowadays. Whether it’s a gory decapitation or a continuous slaughterfest of screaming enemies, gratuitous murder is the order of the day for a lot of titles, both old and new. I don’t have a problem with the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Betrayal is a common theme in Ni No Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom. We first meet our young king protagonist as he desperately flees a coup organised by one of the chief retainers of his father. A few hours later, our team of intrepid heroes prove their…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Think back to when the PlayStation 4 was new and shiny. People were excited about what Ubisoft would do with the extra power of the hardware with its moneymaker Assassin’s Creed franchise. After all, a series that is all about massive open worlds and historical epic…
Read MoreReview by Brad L. The Nintendo Switch has been home to many, many ports so far. Some have been great ports that has boosted the Switch library in its first year, and others not so great. Arc System Works have seen the potential of porting its Vita library to the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Ahhhhhhhhhh yes, Attack on Titan. For the briefest period of time it was Japan’s biggest anime and manga property, and while its flame burned quickly (compared to the likes of One Piece and Dragonball, which manage to still pull a huge following 20,000 episodes in), the…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Yakuza games can be such a glorious mess at times. Each title in the series pulls together so many completely disparate elements that the end result is a weird, and often downright surreal, soup of gameplay mechanics, aesthetics, tone and themes. And yet the overriding fact…
Read MoreReview by Tyler T. Few franchises have managed to constantly change things up yet feel instantly familiar like Kirby has over the past two and a half decades. From pinball to platformers, the series’ signature charm has always shined bright while developer HAL Laboratory experimented. Kirby’s latest adventure, Kirby Star…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. This might turn out to be the shortest review I ever write about a game. So I’ll get this disclaimer up front in case you mistake a lack of words from me for a sign that Poisoft Thud Card is not a good game (I know…
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