Time really does fly. If you had asked me when Earth Defence Force 5 was released, I would have told you “a few years ago”. It was actually released eight years ago. Eight years! It’s a testament to the quality of the game that I still so keenly remember it, I guess. So naturally I jumped at the opportunity to…
True story: It was just the other day that I saw the entire Where’s Wally (I know it’s called “Where’s Waldo” elsewhere, but it’s Wally here) collection on sale. They must have done a reprint. I bought the lot of them. I have fond memories of spending hour upon hour…
Here’s the problem with playing a single-player spinoff from a multiplayer property:…
There was a moment there where I thought that my issues with…
Time really does fly. If you had asked me when Earth Defence Force 5 was released, I would have told you “a few years ago”. It was actually released eight years ago. Eight years! It’s a testament to the quality of the game that I still so keenly remember it,…
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True story: It was just the other day that I saw the entire Where’s Wally (I know it’s called “Where’s Waldo” elsewhere, but it’s Wally here) collection on sale. They must have done a reprint. I bought the lot of them. I have fond memories of spending hour upon hour…
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Here’s the problem with playing a single-player spinoff from a multiplayer property: If you don’t particularly care about the multiplayer that the franchise is built on, the single player, where developers will almost always double down on the various in-fanbase jokes, aesthetics, characters and themes, is really not going to…
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There was a moment there where I thought that my issues with the big AAA-blockbuster space were with me. That I’d become jaded from having played far too many games, and seeing how the sausage gets made first-hand, and therefore I had lost perspective. Yet Pragmata then came and demonstrated…
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I’m not the world’s biggest fan of first-person shooters, but People Can Fly’s Painkiller is one of the exceptions to that rule, thanks to its grim, gothic theme, great monster design, and furious pacing. It was like the developers blended Hexen (another of my small list of beloved shooters) and…
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Publisher ININ has announced that it is bringing Japanese indie game publisher/developer Studio SiestA’s bullet hell game Trouble Witches FINAL! Episode 01 Daughters of Amalgam to the West sometime this summer (for us Northern folk, anyway) for PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. It will be available digitally and physically. This…
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The Western launch of sci-fi roguelite shooter Scar-Lead Salvation is two weeks away. The game’s story begins with a familiar trope: a woman wakes up with no memories in an unfamiliar place. There is an AI that seemingly wants to help, but can it even be trusted? Each floor features…
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As a rule of thumb, it’s a good thing when developers and publishers bring older games onto modern hardware. We’re used to the bigger budget games being remade and remastered endlessly at this point, but it’s even better when it’s the more obscure games that are saved from disappearing and…
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I am absolutely terrible at SHMUPs, bullet hells, and other such action game experiences. For this reason, I don’t generally play them. It’s not that I don’t enjoy them, it’s just that my progress through them is so slow – on account of my own lack of skills – that…
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Every time Starship Troopers pops up as a topic, we get to “enjoy” the most surreal arguments on the Internet as a bunch of people argue that the film is not a satire of fascism, and that the book is not an argument for fascism. These are some of the…
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