Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen (Switch)
Dragon’s Dogma has been an interesting IP for Capcom over the last seven years. First released in 2012 for Xbox 360 and PS3, it presented a fresh open world RPG with the idea of ‘pawns,’ AI characters that you both created and also downloaded from others on the internet. I reviewed the game back in 2012, and then again about a year later when the Dark Arisen standalone expansion ...[Read More]
Mortal Kombat 11
Mortal Kombat began twenty-seven years ago and has seen over a dozen videogame releases, big screen movies, comics, TV shows, and even conventions (Kombat Kon) in the Chicago area (where it all began). All these years later, the franchise continues on, having regained its prestige since NetherRealm Studios took development over in 2011. This week saw the release of MK11, which I was fortunate enou...[Read More]
Trüberbrook
The classic point and click adventure game genre has always been a favorite of mine since I first learned to read and play videogames. Recently, I played through, with the help of a walkthrough at times, a new entry from Headup Games called Trüberbrook. As you might have guessed, the story takes place in Germany, and with a pretty wacky premise at that. You’ll play the role of Hans Tannhause...[Read More]
Darksiders: Warmastered Edition (Switch)
It’s been over nine years since the first Darksiders game was released just after New Year’s in 2010. It was remastered and re-released a few years ago again as the Warmastered Edition. Earlier this week, the game was released yet again in a direct port to the Nintendo Switch. If you’ve managed to miss out on this first entry in the series to this point, picking it up on Switch i...[Read More]
Devil May Cry 5 (PS4)
Devil May Cry is one of the few gaming franchises composed of at least five full titles that I am “current” on. I have played through DMC1-4 as well as DmC, and at least two of these games I have played through twice (also a rarity for me). Going into its eighteenth year, and having had a very well made Ninja Theory soft reboot in 2013, the series has returned with the original DMC cre...[Read More]
The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame
The LEGO videogame franchise is vast and has covered a multitude of licenses and platforms. I have played a few of these games over the years, including the latest one which is directly tied with the new Lego Movie, simply named, Lego Movie 2. Having seen the movie in theaters already, and being a casual fan of Lego and the videogames therein, I was curious to see how TT Fusion did with this new r...[Read More]
Dead or Alive 6
Tecmo’s Dead or Alive franchise began in the arcades and on the original PlayStation and Saturn — all the way back in 1996. This week, Dead or Alive 6 was released. Dead or Alive arrived on the scene in the day of Virtua Fighter and Tekken, the latter of which is still going strong. There have been several spin-offs of the 1v1 fighting game, namely the Beach Volleyball games which, wel...[Read More]
Aragami: Shadow Edition
Re-releases, complete editions, remasters, and games reaching new platforms later in their life has become a norm in the industry. For busy gamers, ones with ever-increasing backlogs, this is a good thing. On more than one occasion, by the time I was ready to play a game from last gen, it had been patched up, supped up, and repackaged for current-gen. That’s almost the situation with Aragami...[Read More]
Metro Exodus
4A Games’ Metro series is based off of a popular novel series by Dmitry Glukhovsky. The videogame franchise began last gen on the Xbox 360 and PS3, and saw both the original Metro 2033 as well as the sequel, Metro Last Light. Both games were remastered and re-released on current gen in Metro: Redux. Having not played either game for several years, I just finished replaying through them on th...[Read More]
Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs
It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly ten years since Rovio Entertainment first released Angry Birds. It may also be hard to believe that I have never played or have really any experience with this franchise at all, despite its numerous sequels and spin-offs into comic books, movies, and animated series. Despite having touched numerous gaming platforms and other mediums, Angry Bir...[Read More]
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Silver Lining (DLC #3)
Last Friday, the final DLC for Marvel’s Spider-Man was released, and it sees the conclusion of the three-part The City That Never Sleeps story arc. In it, we have seen Black Cat, Silver Sable, Hammerhead, and several other key figures, along with a handful of new and modified gameplay elements, enemies, new suits, etc. In October, I thought the first DLC was great; last month, the second DLC...[Read More]
The Last Remnant Remastered
The Last Remnant was first released ten years ago as an Xbox 360 exclusive, but was also previously (though no longer) available on Steam. I remember hearing about it, but not being a big JRPG fan I never played it. Having heard it was remastered on the Unreal4 engine and available for the PS4, I decided to give it a go. I believe this version is based off of the Steam version, but I’m not e...[Read More]