Nathan Birch
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Aragami 2
It doesn’t matter how well you hide, there’s just no escaping the stealth genre these days. In addition to a steady deluge of dedicated stealth games, it seems like every other AAA adventure has the player creeping around at some point. Despite this stealth oversaturation, the indie ninja game Aragami...
Recapturing the magic of a cult classic, especially one as unique as No More Heroes, is no easy task, but Goichi Suda (aka Suda51) has kept his bizarre epic rolling along with surprising success. No More Heroes 2 was arguably just as good as the original, and while Travis Strikes...
Video games and Vikings go together like a battle axe and an unprotected skull. From God of War to The Banner Saga, to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, the gaming realm has been overrun with Vikings in recent years, and now Tribes of Midgard from new Canadian developer Norsfell Games has come...
Cris Tales
Cris Tales is a unique blend of ideas and influences. In my two previews of the game, I most frequently compared to the game to Paper Mario, which is still apt, but the game also borrows from other 16 and 32-bit JRPGs like Chrono Trigger and Valkyrie Profile, classic Disney...
Not every Zelda game is equally beloved by fans, but with time almost every entry in the series finds a passionate audience. Games that divided fans at launch like Majora’s Mask and Wind Waker are now considered beloved classics. One game that hasn’t really benefited from such a re-evaluation is...
Does a JRPG have to be made in Japan? Perhaps more to the point, is it possible to make a good JRPG outside of Japan? Plenty of Western-developed titles, from Secret of Evermore, to Child of Light, to the countless RPG Maker projects hitting Steam every month have tried to...
Mario has tried his hand at plenty of pastimes over the years, but for whatever reason, it seems the laidback sport of golf is the usually-hyper plumber’s favorite. Mario’s club-swinging obsession began with the NES black-box classic Golf back in 1985, and following numerous sequels on almost every Nintendo platform,...
Video games do destruction all too well, but Canadian indie developer Greg Lobanov seems to have made it his mission to focus on the constructive and creative. Lobanov is following up his winsome music-focused project Wandersong with Chicory: A Colorful Tale, an innovative new Zelda-esque adventure that lets players paint...
Games Workshop has found success with an impressively wide range of video game genres, and yet, there’s never really been a great first-person-shooter set in the Warhammer universe. A bit odd considering the franchise’s obsession with giant guns! Enter Necromunda: Hired Gun, the latest effort from Streum On Studio, who...
Warhammer video games cover a very wide gamut, but given the franchise’s tabletop origins, turn-based strategy adaptations tend to attract special scrutiny. This is certainly true of Warhammer Age of Sigmar: Storm Ground from Canadian developer Gasket Games, as it’s the first major turn-based strategy video game based on Games...
Resident Evil 7 was a major gamble, introducing a bold new setting, mechanics, and concepts to Capcom’s then-flagging horror franchise, and thankfully, the big bet paid off. Since then, Capcom has largely been coasting on the momentum RE7 provided them with a series of well-made but not-terribly-risky remakes. Well, the...
This is a big year for Sony’s long-running MLB The Show franchise, at least from a business standpoint. With MLB The Show 21, the series takes its first tentative step onto next-gen systems and, even more significantly, Xbox consoles. In fact, in a rather unexpected turn of events, this Sony-developed...
