Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Review
Asymmetric multiplayer games have seen a huge rise in popularity over the years. Friday the 13th: The Game, Dead by Daylight, and to a lesser degree Predator: Hunting Grounds, have all taken the world by storm with their delightfully addicting gameplay. As with those games, the genre seems to be ripe with possibilities when it comes to beloved IP. But one obvious franchise has eluded the adored 4v...[Read More]
Serial Cleaners
After wrapping up Serial Cleaners I decided to dust off my digital copy of Serial Cleaner, a game I had bought years ago on sale and never played. “How does the original compare to the sequel?” I wondered. I considered hopping into the first game before playing Serial Cleaners so I could speak on how the two compared and contrasted. But instead, I decided a completely fresh perspective...[Read More]
No Place for Bravery
“Sing, oh Muse, the folly of Thorn, son of Dewr, who lived by the blade.” No Place for Bravery opens with this line, a throaty chant and booming drums accompany the text crawl. It instills an ancient sense of power into the player’s subconscious. Our main character is named Thorn and this introduction heavily implies that all will not be right, his folly worthwhile enough to be a...[Read More]
The Tomorrow Children: Phoenix Edition
When The Tomorrow Children released sometime in 2016 I never played it. However, before the game’s full release I spent hours with game’s beta. In my vast library of PlayStation avatars, I treasure the one I received for participation in Q-Games’ newest experiment. There was something so oddly inviting about The Tomorrow Children to me. Its Soviet-inspired world and writing added...[Read More]
Metal: Hellsinger Review
Is it the profound hope of most game developers to allow their players to embody a specific avatar? The common “joke” with Marvel’s Spider-Man was that it let players “feel like Spider-Man” in one form or another. And you know what? It’s true. I’m never going to web sling through New York City and Insomniac’s blockbuster allowed me to live out that p...[Read More]
Wayward Strand
During the three in-game days players spend on Wayward Strand‘s airborne nursing home, time does not stop. Much like the characters main character Casey interacts with, time is a valuable commodity. Miss a moment and it is gone forever… at least until you start a new game. Wayward Strand treats the passage of time as an unflinching force that constantly moves forward with no regard for...[Read More]
Broken Pieces
Broken Pieces evokes numerous other games during its opening hours–an often endearing quality when eventually those inspirations manifest into something wholly original. Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Alan Wake, Control, Gone Home, Alone in the Dark. Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft began to rapidly trickle in as did a number of avant-garde thrillers. If anything, Broken Pieces cements itself in...[Read More]
The Last of Us Part 1
The Last of Us has defined the past nine years of Sony and the PlayStation. Released days after Sony’s legendary 2013 E3 conference, The Last of Us was an expression of years of work mastering how to craft games for a console. Three massively influential Uncharted games acted as the catalyst to Naughty Dog’s gritty, post-apocalyptic vision. Joel’s path towards redemption through ...[Read More]
Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed Review
A long time ago in the year 2020, I reviewed a little remake of a classic PS2-era game entitled Destroy All Humans!. And now as a wisened old man, I am taking a look at its sequel: Destroy All Humans! 2: Reprobed. What a grand reminder that as things continue to evolve and change, some things will always remain the same. And in this case, DAH2: Reprobed is about as close to “same-y” as you can get...[Read More]
Rollerdrome Review
Rollerdrome, simply put, is a mix of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, Max Payne, and The Running Man. Skating along trying to build up combos while dodging bullets is deceptively easy to learn, and excruciatingly hard to master. I’ll freely admit that I’m pretty terrible at playing Rollerdrome; my hand-eye coordination could never seem to catch up to what the game needed me to do. Wheth...[Read More]
Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course
The Delicious Last Course is, simply put, more Cuphead. Players should be able to judge their desires based on that statement alone. Plenty of games possess infuriatingly challenging boss battles, ones that border on sadistic with their flurry of projectiles and screen-sweeping attacks. But I personally feel that the boss battle has fluctuated in quality and consideration over the years. In the 8-...[Read More]
Stray Review
Stray is everything you’d want out of a game playing as a cat, even if it never fully reaches the potential it lays out for itself. Ask any random person on the street to name the one animal they’d want to play in a video game, and I’d wager to say that at least one out of every 3 people would say a cat. Stray takes everything that we love about cats and puts as much as it possibly can into an 8-h...[Read More]