Nat Patterson
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Disneyland Adventures
Do you remember watching Disney movies as a child? Popping in a dusty VHS tape, enjoying your favourite movie, and then seeing the advertisement for Disneyland at the end? I vividly remember the feeling that came with it: a sense of longing to be at Disneyland, the “happiest place on...
Pretty much everyone loves Disney films. Those who don’t are widely considered to be monsters and to have lost touch with their inner-child. The same cannot be said for Disney video games, however, as more often than not they come to us as half-cooked movie tie-ins that fail to impress...
Games like Always Sometimes Monsters are designed to make you think, ponder, and reflect. The game focuses on choices, consequences, and is ambiguous about whether the decisions you make matter in the end. Some questions I asked myself while playing through Always Sometimes Monsters were: am I good person? Would I...
Knack II
Across the internet, Knack is often referred to as “our lord and saviour” or “the divine one”, a cheeky and sarcastic dig at his overall irrelevance in the pantheon of gaming mascots and heroes. Knack 2 comes along and tries to rid itself of this moniker, this slander, this blasphemy, in...
Everybody's Golf
Everybody’s Golf is just delightful to play. I want to get that out there before I start this review because there are some issues that must be addressed. As a game, however, it is so satisfyingly simple and engaging that, despite its flaws, I consider it to be one of...
Mages of Mystralia
“Charm and curiosity” were the two words on my mind when first seeing Mages of Mystralia’s trailer. These two words carried with me throughout my journey in the colourful world of Mystralia, and remain with me now at the end of my playthrough. Written by Ed Greenwood, creator of Dungeons...
If Overwatch was a tabletop racing game, it might look a bit like Micro Machines World Series. It’s almost as if Micro Machines, as a franchise, woke up from a coma and was greeted with “its 2017 now, you need lootboxes… and skins, voice lines, and an ultimate ability that...
The WipEout Omega Collection brings together the three latest instalments in the long-running, futuristic racer and unleashes them onto the PS4. Consisting of WipEout HD from the PS3, the hefty Fury expansion, and the Vita launch-title WipEout 2048, the Omega Collection packs a generous amount of content into a relatively cheap package...
