It’s not often that I get hooked into a puzzle game because of its story, let alone because its story elements are more intriguing than the actual gameplay itself, but that’s exactly what happened with Quell Memento. The first thing I did after the game kicked off was to touch…
Read MoreI love stumbling onto a game where my expectations are, frankly, low – but coming away feeling like I found a game that is perhaps better than not only what I expected, but the sum of its parts. This is exactly how I feel about Defender’s Quest: Valley of the…
Read MoreMost people spent their childhoods riding bikes, attending school, or perhaps indulging in the occasional video game. The protagonist of the Natsume-published Chulip transitions into adulthood by kissing police officers, train conductors, alien monkeys, underground onions, and the drunkard father of his love interest. Clearly most people had nothing on…
Read MoreYou know how sometimes people enjoy the guilty pleasure of a movie that is “so bad it’s good”? For example, I have a buddy who loves Nicolas Cage movies for that very reason. Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta Episode 1 (the only time in this review I will type out…
Read MoreOne of the nicest surprises of the year so far for the PlayStation 3 has been the release of a creakily-old, but quite enjoyable western RPG, ArcaniA 4. Retitled ArcaniA: The Complete Tale – one assumes because it’s the first time a PlayStation console has had a game of the…
Read MoreI’ll start off by saying Expeditions: Conquistador isn’t a game for everyone. It’s a tactical role playing game that takes real dedication and patience and as a gamer who isn’t familiar with this sort of ground, it took hours to become comfortable with the complex variety and attention Conquistador demands.…
Read MoreI am not terribly good at bowling, though I enjoy it quite a bit. The running joke on my old bowling league team I was on back in college was that I was our team handicap (four guys throwing around 200 or higher, and me with my rock solid 140……
Read MoreThe original Denpa Men game was a charming, if somewhat shallow dungeon crawler with a cute AR gimmick for acquiring the weird men-things that would do the fighting and adventuring on your behalf. Ultimately it was charming, but lacked the all-important sensation of context to make the adventuring really stand…
Read MoreOut of all of the characters in classic literary fiction, it makes the most sense to create a Diablo-like action role-playing game based off of Abraham Van Helsing. Introduced in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Van Helsing is a monster-hunting professional that has many titles to his name. He also was not…
Read MoreCertain crossover games seem to come under fire for having decidedly random characters thrown into sometimes unfitting contexts. If you thought last year’s Pokémon X Nobunaga or the recent Project X Zone were strange, Telltale is looking to shock you again by cranking up the weirdness to unparalleled levels. If…
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