Lucas White
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Nostalgia, game development, and meta storytelling collide in this RPG-themed deduction game.
A lot of games that look back in time share a tone that’s somewhere between nostalgic and bittersweet. Few of them are as dry, honest, and regretful as Perfect Tides: Station to Station. Part point-and-click adventure, part autobiography, this sequel sees aspiring writer and college freshman Mara Whitefish escape her...
Ys is weird because it has a linear timeline, but between new games jumping around and a spotty localization history, it can be hard to perceive accurately without help. Falcom also loves to retcon things, especially when it comes to scrubbing out odd moves from its past. Take Ys 4,...
Minishoot’ Adventures, aside from the weird apostrophe in its title, is as straightforward as it gets. You can look at it once and immediately clock what it’s all about. But despite it being a mashup of familiar ideas, it stands out in a few ways. For one, it’s a particular...
In the 90s, Virgin Interactive published a game called Screamer, a PC racing game from Italian developer Graffiti that was praised for how it combined a realistic control style with the exaggerated animations of an arcade game. Screamer became a short-lived series, and Graffiti rebranded as Milestone, going on to...
I used to go to MAGfest every year, a 24-hour music and gaming convention on the east coast that’s a bit too big and pricey now, but that’s not why I bring it up. I had a tradition; every year the first thing I’d do in the console space was...
I still remember how hyped I was when BlazBlue first came out, all the way back in 2009. I was at my peak interest in fighting games, Guilty Gear was on some kind of hiatus, and this was the next best thing with its own cool twists. Eventually, I fell...
The somewhat controversial Yakuza Kiwami series continues, with its most controversial entry yet. There’s a lot to unpack here, but needless to say the internet has been alight with discourse, with hardcore, longtime Yakuza/Like a Dragon fans clashing with more casual or newer fans over retcons, casting decisions, gameplay changes,...
You know when you see something and just think, “That’s cute,” afterwards? The thing in question didn’t inspire deep thought, didn’t incite a strong emotional response, and probably didn’t leave a lasting impact. It was cute, though. Like walking outside into a cool breeze before heading to your next destination....
An easy comparison to make with Routine is Alien Isolation, due to its green-tinted, chunky technology, and invincible, free-roaming (ish) antagonist forces. While the actual timeline suggests Routine was in development early enough for some of those similarities to be coincidental rather than derivative, there’s no denying the aesthetic comparison...
There’s a lurch in Unbeatable, the debut work from developer D-Cell Games, finally out after a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2021. Pink-haired and surly protagonist Beat and her soon-to-be bandmates are locked up in a prison, with no choice but to get through the doldrums of inmate life before the...
I know what it feels like to desperately want to sleep. A medication mishap left me unable to sleep for three or four days. I laid in bed each night trying to make it happen, then drifted through the following days struggling to focus on things like work. It started...
