Charlie Kelly
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The Like a Dragon series (originally known as Yakuza in the West) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. In that time they’ve had countless mainline games but also spin-offs that depict detective mysteries, Edo period samurai and a zombie apocalypse. There’s little the franchise has done at this point,...
The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II does what every good JRPG sequel should do: make it a friend fest, filling your adventure party with all the characters you know and love for one big journey. Set mere months after the first Daybreak game hit the west, lovable ruffian...
Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, the anticipated sequel to the 2018 medieval RPG, is here, letting players control Henry of Skalitz again. With a lot of moving systems, ambitious immersion and striking graphics, it buckles a little under all those promises. Have you ever had a game that you so desperately...
Every so often you finally get to a game on your backlog that truly surprises you. “Where have you been my whole life?” I caught myself saying as I played Ninja Gaiden II via the recently shadow-dropped Ninja Gaiden II Black. The short answer is that it was there all along, waiting...
I’m finding it hard to focus on and enjoy games at the moment. I’m terrified every day I wake up that the Government will take away more rights from myself, my friends, my family and my loved ones. I see headlines from overseas that workplaces are partaking in a snitch...
Ys Memoire: The Oath in Felghana, originally released in 2005 (under Ys: The Oath in Felghana), is a remake of the franchise’s third entry Ys III: Wanderers from Ys from way back in 1989. Featuring the early workings of real-time Action RPG combat (a genre traditionally turn-based in the ’80s) that...
The Legacy of Kain games are some of the most quintessential late 90s and early 2000s gaming. In the Soul Reaver pair of games, now remastered in HD glory thanks to Aspyr’s Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 & 2 Remastered, you control a vampire-turned-wraith known as Raziel who must...
After three years that felt like an eternity, Fantasian, the RPG from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has ended its Apple Arcade exclusivity. Now, re-released on all modern consoles and PC with more content in FANTASIAN Neo Dimension, more than a select few fans can finally engage in the magical adventure. As someone...
Sorry We’re Closed is the debut venture from á la mode games. It is a survival horror game infused with dreamy bubblegum pop vibes as you’re introduced to a colourful cast of characters amidst a world that is filled with people, angels and demons in disguise in modern London. It’s yet...
The Metal Slug franchise has largely been dead in recent years except for the occasional spin-off title or remake. The last mainline entry in the Metal Slug series was in 2008 on the Nintendo DS. Need I say more? When you’ve already conquered the run-and-gun genre with little evolution since then, where...
Slitterhead
Video games these days often have an insecurity where they have to insist on their maturity and seriousness. I love my hard-hitting narrative ventures as much as the next person, but when you consider that this is a medium that started with some of the simplest experiences, you start to...
In 2015, Square Enix published and DON’TNOD developed Life is Strange released and changed many people’s lives with its intriguing mystery, exploration of superpowers in time-rewinding and, crucially, its groundbreaking depiction of sapphic love in teenagehood. I say this because I was one of those people. Not yet out as the...
